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'2 to 6 crore Bangladeshi migrants in India'

New Delhi: There are 2-6 crore Bangladeshi migrants living in India - the largest illegal migration from one country to another, a former senior officer of India's border guards said Tuesday."Nobody can verify the trend

IANS IANS Updated on: May 14, 2014 11:19 IST
Mishra claimed that 25 percent of the items disbursed under the Public Distribution Scheme goes to the Bangladeshi migrants. "What we can give to our children are snatched by them," he charged.

"There has been 20 years of land acquisition in (Assam's) Guwahati and Kokrajhar. Government land has been sold to migrants by the state's revenue department," said Mishra, alleging that the Congress government in the northeastern state has closed its eyes to all this due to vote bank politics.

"The Bangladeshi chunk in India is the largest illegal migration from any one country to another," said former BSF chief Prakash Singh.
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