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Rajasthan to repatriate about 3,500
illegal Bangladeshi migrants

The Rajasthan government has decided to repatriate about 3,500 Bangladeshi migrants, staying 'illegally' in Jaipur and Ajmer.

The government has already identified them and a process is underway to repatriate them in phases, state Home Minister Gulab Singh Shaktawat told media persons in Jaipur.

Central Guidelines exist for repatriating illegal migrants and a strategy is being devised after studying them, Shaktawat said.

According to this strategy, those illegal migrants who were considered a 'threat to public peace' would be rounded up and kept in camps to be deported later.

The Rajasthan government had already consulted the West Bengal government, which will receive the migrants and push them back into Bangladesh.

Shaktawat, however, hastened to add that this was a continuous process pointing out to a transit camp in Dholpur the government had been operating for this purpose.

There are about 300 families Bangladeshis living in Jaipur in tattered dwellings along the rail tracks on Parivahan Marg.

The administration turned against them after they clashed with the police early this week.

The Congress government had, so far, not made any effort to repatriate the illegal immigrants ignoring demands by the Bhartiya Janata Party and many Hindu fundamentalist organisations for their 'removal'.

The state administration was jolted into action after a group held a cop as hostage and attacked the police party that went to free him on August 5.

The incident put pressure on the administration to act against the illegal migrants.

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