BDR delegation arrives in Meghalaya
Shillong, Mar 10 (UNI) A ten-member delegation of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) arrived here today to attend the three-day annual border co-ordination committee conclave between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR).
The BDR delegation, led Deputy Director General Brigadier General M A Bari, includes representatives from the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Bangladesh government will be camping at a hotel here.
The Indian delegation will be headed by Inspector General of BSF (Cachar-Mizoram) frontier, Himmat Singh and assisted by IG BSF in-charge (Assam-Meghalaya) PK Mishra and IG BSF in-charge Tripura JA Khan.
The three-day meeting will focus on India's longstanding demand on several issues, including deportation of Bangladesh-based ULFA General Secretary Anup Chetia to India.
''We will hand over a list of Indian militant camps and hideouts of various outfits operating in the Northeast located deep inside Bangladesh and seek BDR's cooperation to bust them,'' Mr Mishra told UNI here today.
Deportation
of
jailed
ULFA
leader
Anup
Chetia
and
other
insurgent
leaders
will
be
sought,
Mr
Mishra
said
adding
that
issues
ranging
from
illegal
trans-shipment
of
arms
and
ammunition
from
Bangladesh
to
India
will
also
be
tak