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Home Affairs Advisor Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said that India will not be able to build a barbed wire fence within 150 yards of the border. However, there will be no objection to this if it is outside 150 yards.

He said this at a press briefing at the Secretariat on Sunday (January 12) on the Bangladesh-India border situation.

The Home Affairs Advisor also said that the Indian authorities have been contacted and the matter has been informed to the Indian High Commissioner through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will soon provide detailed information to India and protest the construction work.

The Home Affairs Advisor said that during the previous government, India got the opportunity to build barbed wire fences in some areas of the border. India has completed the construction of barbed wire fences on 3,271 kilometers of the 4,156-kilometer border with Bangladesh. India has taken the initiative to build barbed wire on the remaining 885 kilometers of the border.

He said, during the previous government, from 2010 to 2023, India did some unequal work on the border, which India should not have done. But our previous government gave that opportunity.

Regarding India’s unilateral decision, he said, recently India tried to build a three-bigha corridor in Lalmonirhat, barbed wire fences in Feni, Comilla, Kushtia and Patnital in Naogaon. India was forced to stop work at those places due to the strong stance of the BGB and local people. According to the agreement between the two countries, if such development work is done at any place, it has to be done through negotiations between the two countries. But India did not do that.

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