Plea to seal borders
- BTC, Absu seek to check influx
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chief and Bodo People’s Front (BPF) president Hagrama Mohilary told reporters
here, “We have reports of people from Bangladesh crossing the Brahmaputra into
Dhubri and then intruding into Kokrajhar. We have urged the sealing of the
Kokrajhar and Dhubri border.”
Lakendra
Brahma, 85, a retired PWD employee of Baukabangi village, who has taken shelter
in a relief camp, recalled that there were just a few Muslim villages when he
was young and how their numbers have grown in recent times. “There were hardly
any Bangladeshi migrants when we were young but over the years the demography
has changed. Today we are the minority with nowhere to go,” he said.
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