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Its probably with Assam BD lost lands but as a whole BD gained few acres of land in adverse possession swap if my earlier information still stand.
Thats may be due to enclaves .... but enclaves and land swap two separate thing... 1 or 2 days back i heard the news that people indian enclaves inside bangladesh demonstrated after enclave swapping date has not been fixed... they said they want to be part of bangladesh as soon as possible instead bluffing claim made by bhartis frequently that they prefer heaven like india over bangladesh and want to migrate to india illegally.
You guys are so silly and perpetual India haters
You guys got much more land than what you gave overall ( Assam may be different) and still before understanding or redaing the details, you guys are firing from your steel balls...
about your above comments, where is the link............herasay and conspiracies can be from our side too.....pity you.
Dont expect concessions from someone you hate. Its not like you are going to love us if we give you more land. You feeling would have been some thing close to defeating the Hindus.
We are not greedy that we want more land... we want only give up the land that is occupied by you ... not like the present deal every party will keep the land that is under their control...
poor gullible bangladeshis, soon to be colonised by indians.
poor gullible bangladeshis, soon to be colonised by indians.
We are not greedy that we want more land... we want only give up the land that is occupied by you ... not like the present deal every party will keep the land that is under their control...
Ali could be wrong, but what galls the enclave residents most is that no time limit has been set to implement the treaty. “This so-called agreement is an eyewash. It will go the same way as the 1974 pact and the 1992 agreement between the then Premiers P.V. Narasimha Rao of India and Begum Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh to settle the enclave issue,” says Diptiman Sengupta of the Bharat-Bangladesh Enclave Exchange Co-ordination Committee, spearheading a movement in Cooch Behar.
Needless to say, exchanging enclaves is a tricky affair. The agreement needs to be ratified by the two Parliaments before it is implemented. India also needs to amend its Constitution since the exchange means it has to give away some 10,000 acres of land to Bangladesh. A senior leader of the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party cautions against “a loss of our mainland to Bangladesh in whatever deal we may strike with them”.
If the Manmohan Singh-Sheikh Hasina agreement takes effect, Bangladesh will own the 111 Indian enclaves that lie in its territory with an area of 17,160 acres, while 51 Bangladeshi enclaves stretching across 7,110 acres will merge with India. ........
Under the 2011 agreement, families living in the 162 enclaves — locally known as chhit or chhitmahal — will be asked to choose their nationalities. For instance, a man living in an Indian enclave in Bangladesh could opt for Bangladesh citizenship and stay on in that enclave once it is handed over to Bangladesh. Or he can leave the enclave and come to India and become an Indian citizen. In that case, he will be allotted a plot to stay in India.
But for the 17,000-odd people living in the Bangladesh enclaves, going to Bangladesh is not an option. Having lived within India for years, they say they have become Indians “at heart”.
“We may have lived in Bangladesh enclaves for generations but India is our country. This is where we grew up and this is where we earn our livelihood, selling paddy and vegetables in the Indian markets next door,” says 40-year-old Bellal Hussain of Madhya Mashaldanga, a neighbourhood of the Bangladesh enclave.
Ibrahim Sheikh, a 28-year-old wage earner, agrees. He has never been to Bangladesh, and married a girl from a neighbouring Indian village like several others from the Bangladesh enclaves. “India is my home,” he says. “I am proud to be an Indian by marriage.”........
Life, however, is not easy for the stateless people. They don’t have a single piece of paper — except for land deeds — that identify them as residents of the enclaves. “Each time we step out of our enclaves, we worry about being arrested by the Indian police who accuse us of being Bangladeshis even though Bangladesh does not recognise us as its citizens,” says Sheikh, who was arrested some years ago when he tried to board a train from Cooch Behar to go to Delhi.
Postcards from the edge