Union Minister of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju said here today if a minority community of a particular country are persecuted on religious grounds, “it is the responsibility of neighboring countries to provide shelter to such people in their Territory.”
Therefore, the Union Minister said, India has provided shelter to Bangladeshi Hindus in India as they were persecuted on religious grounds. He said Bangladeshi Hindus have been residing in India for several decades in this country.
He said the Government is treating these cases of Bangladeshi Hindus on humanitarian ground and there are proposals to grant them citizenship rights. He further spoke on the opposition to grant citizenship rights to such people and said these people would not be accommodated in Northeast alone, but throughout the country.
“The Northeast alone would not share the burden of providing shelter to such people, but these people would be accommodated throughout India,” Rijiju said.
On continuation of peace talks with the NSCN (K), he said the Government of India wanted to continue with the peace talks with NSCN (K.) “It is the NSCN (K) which has abrogated the peace talks. The Government was in favour of continuing talks with the outfit,” he said.
Informing about the abduction and reported death of an Intelligence Bureau official, B Singh from Rongra, South Garo Hills, Rijiju said, there is no confirmation about the death.
“It is an unfortunate case (abduction), but there is no confirmation about his death as there is no physical evidence in this regard,” Rijiju added.
Terming the Garo Hills situation as “disturbing” the Home Minister said that the Centre is willing to provide more assistance if the State Government wants.
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