Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday issued a stern warning to Bangladesh over repeated threats to merge India’s Northeast with the neighbouring country, calling such statements a reflection of a “bad mindset.”
“Statements have been emanating from Bangladesh for the past year with calls to merge the Northeast with that country. But how will Bangladesh do it? It’s wrong to even imagine this,” Sarma told media persons.
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The Chief Minister emphasized India’s stature as a large sovereign nation with the world’s fourth-largest economy. “If such behaviour continues, we should teach them a lesson that we will not remain silent,” he stated firmly.
Sarma’s remarks followed provocative statements by Hasnat Abdullah, a youth leader of Bangladesh’s newly formed National Citizen Party, who threatened India’s territorial integrity on Monday.
“I want to tell Bharat in clear terms that if you keep sheltering those who do not believe in the sovereignty, voting and human rights of our country, we will shelter the separatists of India and separate the Northeast,” Abdullah had warned, accusing India of funding opposition to Bangladesh’s interim government.
The tensions trace back to earlier comments by interim government Chief Adviser Prof Mohammed Yunus, who described Bangladesh as the “only guardian of the ocean” for India’s landlocked northeastern states. Subsequent threats targeted India’s Siliguri corridor—the narrow 22-35 km stretch connecting the Northeast to mainland India.
The Chief Minister previously noted that Bangladesh itself has two vulnerable corridors: an 80 km stretch from West Bengal’s Dakhin Dinajpur to Meghalaya’s South West Garo Hills, and the 28 km Chittagong Corridor from South Tripura to the Bay of Bengal.
