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Bangladesh Border

Your Cabinet is anticipated to think about presenting a constitutional amendment bill to apply the 1974 India-Bangladesh land boundary Agreement and also the additional protocol signed by PM. Manmohan Singh in September 2011, at its meeting on Thursday.

The constitutional amendment can make possible the exchange of 111 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh and 51 Bangladeshi enclaves in India. It can help settle the lengthy pending boundary issues between your two nations.

The federal government intends to introduce the balance during the cold months Session of Parliament, which commences on Thursday. Bangladesh has ratified the agreement.

Even while the federal government presented the Agreement and Protocol like a foreign policy achievement, it's needed to tread gradually around the amendment. It has been partially due to the bookings of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

The Trinamool Congress was a friend from the UPA government during the time of filling out the Protocol.

New Delhi's delay in ratifying the Agreement and also the Protocol continues to be something of the irritant for Dhaka. India had assured Bangladesh it's trying to develop a political consensus. The problem was elevated in the thirteenth meeting from the foreign secretaries Asia and Bangladesh locked in October too.

The federal government hopes that the development of the amendment bill will reassure Dhaka that it's seriously interested in settling outstanding boundary issues. The support of two-thirds of MPs "present and voting" both in Houses of Parliament is needed for that passage from the Constitutional amendment Bill.

See Also: Bengali Newspaper.

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