Guwahati: After visiting Karmganj sector of India-Bangladesh border in Assam, the union home minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday announced that the porous border will be sealed in 2016.
Singh who arrived on a two-day trip to Assam, paid a visit to the Stemerghat Border Out Posts (BOP) in Karimganj district and said that the international border which was still porous should have been sealed long ago.
He was accompanied by Union Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs Sarbananda Sonowal, Assam BJP leaders Himanta Biswa Sarma and a delegation of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU), including its chief adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya, President Dipank Nath and general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi.
Rajnath Singh’s visit was also aimed to fulfill his commitment to AASU leadership in 2015. “The minister had expressed his desire for a joint visit of the international border during a seminar organised by us in New Delhi last year. This visit was to fulfill his commitment. We have showed him the open international border in Karimganj district. He has assured that the border would be sealed within this year," said AASU president Dipank Nath.
“The home minister has also informed us that the issues which have affected the sealing of the border in Karimganj district since November last year, have been taken up with Bangladesh government and sorted out amicably,” said AASU president while expressing his satisfaction over the development.
