Bharatiya Janata Party MP Jagannath Sarkar鈥檚 remarks that if his party wins the West Bengal elections in 2026, they would reunify India and Bangladesh have triggered a political row in the eastern state of India, reports hindustantimes.com.
鈥榃e promise that if we win the election this time, we will not keep聽 the barbed wire fences between India and Bangladesh. Earlier we were one country. They (India and Bangladesh) were one earlier. In future they would become one, again,鈥�
Jagannath said while addressing a political rally in his constituency on October 30, reads the report published online by hindustantimes.com on Saturday.
He also said, 鈥業f the Trinamool Congress comes to power, even then the fences will disappear. But this would become Bangladesh.鈥�
The TMC has hit back, saying that the BJP was fooling the people of the state and challenged the party to suspend the MP, the report adds.
According to the report, assembly elections in West Bengal are scheduled to be held in 2026.
The BJP has been alleging that many of these fake voters are Bangladeshis who came to India illegally.
West Bengal of India shares about 2,216 kilometres of border with Bangladesh, the longest stretch of international border shared by any state in India with a neighbouring country. About 1,647km has been fenced till date, another 569km stretch is yet to be covered by fences, informed Rajya Sabha in August.