Bangladesh to help combat insurgency: Tripura CM

Agartala (Tripura), Sep.10 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said that Bangladesh will help to combat insurgency and would not allow its soil to be used for anti-India activities.

Bangladesh has confirmed that the ultras were operating from their country and they have promised to take stringent action to root out militancy.

While interacting with the media persons Sarkar said that the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina said that her government would take stringent action to root out militancy and curb the rising insurgency.

"Sheikh Hasina wanted to speak to chief ministers of all the four states separately who had accompanied Indian prime minister, when they met her separately they told her that in Bangladesh there still exists camps in the country and asked her to give more documents on this so that they can take actions," said Sarkar.

Sarkar added that Bangladesh had informed India that it was aware that the militants were being trained to carry out attack in India and disrupt its peace and tranquility.

"According to our analysis there are 20 terrorist camps in Bangldesh but it is not certain because these numbers can always increase, so we can not take the responsibility to give the exact numbers," said Sarkar.

However, both the sides failed to arrive at an agreement on an Indian request to grant transit rights through Bangladesh for India's land-locked northeastern states. Dhaka has said that it is unlikely that the deal would materialize only after the Indian government inked the water sharing agreement.

India had helped its eastern neighbour to emerge as independent Bangladesh in 1971 from what was then East Pakistan.

The bilateral relations between the two countries suffered as it was discovered that the Islamist militants had made Bangladesh as their base and were involved in anti-India activities.

Analysts said that India wanted a lasting and a stable relationship with Bangladesh, which is an emerging economy and big market for Indian goods, irrespective of who rules in Dhaka.

Bilateral trade has grown steadily but remains heavily in India's favour, with the gap widening, causing concern in Bangladesh where businessmen had asked for the removal of both tariff and non-tariff barriers.(ANI)