Bharat Raksha Manch pleads with Odisha govt for immediate identification, deportation of B’deshi, Rohingyia infiltrators
By Ipsita Das
Bhubaneswar, March 13: Bharat Rakshya Mancha, a national-level social organisation, on Thursday expressed its concern over the “rising” number of Bangladesh and Rohingyia infiltrators into Odisha and urged the Odisha government to take necessary actions to stop the trend.
Addressing a press conference here in the city, Bharat Rakshya Mancha Odisha president Subrat Mishra said over 3 lakhs Bangladeshi and Rohingyas infiltrators are currently in the state. He also claimed that the infiltration process is going on unabated due to inadequate vigilance mechanisms.
“Over three lakh Bangladeshi and Rohingyia infiltrators have settled in Odisha in the past few years. They are spread across cities and towns and rural parts of the state. Starting from labour work to small businesses, they are seen active everywhere. They have a design to alter the demographic profile of the state as they did in Assam and some other north-eastern states. The state government must understand this reality and take pre-emptive steps to check their further penetration,” said Mishra.
The main objective of the press conference is to express gratitude to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi for his action to identify that the infiltrator and initiating steps to flush them out. However, a lot need to be done to identify who have come here since long and settled with active support and patronization from local politicians.
The organisation thanked CM Majhi for recent arrest of 10 infiltrators and their agent from a Bengaluru-bound train at Bhubaneswar railway station and insisted that such steps need to be stepped up.
Dr Ashok Acharya, the national general secretary of Bharat Raksha Manch, said some local politicians and lower-level government officials in border districts are helping the infiltrators to avail Aadhaar and ration cards.
Dr Arun Nayak, working president of BRM, informed that a sensitization programme held in August 2024 had prompted the state government to intensify its action against the infiltrators.
BRM general secretary Puranjan Padhi and vice president Sudam who were present on the occasion highlighted how the infiltrators were swindling the rations of the poor people and grabbing lands from the poor people.
