I wish you took a more holistic view of the problem. Let's examine your statement thru the context of history.
In the past 2 centuries beginning with British rule over the entire Bengal ( including Bangladesh) , the NE- principally Assam & the Arakan region of Burma were inhabited by Bengali immigrants, encouraged to do so by the British under their supervision to cultivate the land & increase revenue. It's not as if these regions were devoid of Muslims during the preceding Mughal era, except the percentage of their population was never threatening to the majority community there. This changed by the time the British quit India for various reasons. Undivided Bengal turned Muslim majority.We were complacent and believed in the intrinsic goodness of humans & humanity. Not so with the Burmese who were more practical and cold blooded.Result - Muslims form 25% -35% of the population in WB & Assam respectively today, up from 1947 and compare it with what you see in the Rakhine in Burma even before the problem erupted.
The principal landowners were Bengali Hindus in undivided Bengal. Come partition, they were driven out with our Commie inspired historians & economists with quaintly Hindu names & surnames, " rightly " blaming them for their misfortune given their "exploitative " treatment of the peasants, who of course, were majorly Muslims.Same logic at work in J&K with the KP's here.
So , there was exchange of populations but not to the extent that the Punjab saw.In other words there wasn't any ethnic cleansing on the scale that undivided Punjab saw, in spite of the severity of the riots, principally in what was then East Pakistan and in Calcutta.
When issues subsided, we saw a continuous intercourse of population across borders in the East & NE right up to 1970, with the least minimum restrictions to it. Something , which ceased in the West by the early to mid1950's.
With the result, that the Hindu + Buddhist population migrated in great nos to WB, Assam,Meghalaya & Tripura.This wasn't followed by a corresponding migration of Muslims in the reverse direction. If anything, there was an equal migration of Muslims in the same period to WB & Assam.Of course the period between 1970-72 saw an exponential increase in the population in the same areas of both religions , due to obvious reasons.
How does one account for this ? Was this solely on account of their breeding habits of a particular section of the population or was this due to infiltration, given the devasted economy back home in newly born Bangladesh & the fact that most chose not to return to the newly formed nation of Bangladesh & that includes both Hindus & Muslims ?
In the event, Meghalaya saw xenophobic riots against Bengali migrants throughout the 70's which substantially reduced their nos. Whereas WB under the beloved Commies and Assam under such luminaries like Fakhru Mian, also our president, saw these illegal immigrants being settled comfortably eventually becoming full citizens. I'm referring to Muslim migrants from Bangladesh here. Isn't the irony delicious? You get the nation you want and the one you're inhabiting too. Ek par ek free. The IMDT act in Assam was the crowning glory. Talk of electoral politics. Momota has merely taken a leaf out of the Commies & Cong - I playbook.
Now, let's come to the present.
Yes. What you say is true. India enjoys excellent ties with the current Bangladesh dispensation. But is it also true of the ordinary Bangladeshi? Do I need to add to the descriptions for the hatred an ordinary Bangladeshi feels for India , Hindu India in particular and Hindus in general.Are you unaware of this phenomenon? What happens after this dispensation is out of power?
Is our attitude to Bangladesh benign coz that's what we are or is due to the fact that we already have too many enemies in our neighborhood?
Pakistanis merely covets our land. Their only infiltration is by terrorists, who come to kill and / or die.I say the bigger threat is from those infiltrators who choose to settle down here and bring their religion and culture with a view to imposing it on their land of adoption in a few generations. Isn't this how Islam spread in Bengal, particularly Bangladesh in medieval times.
Add to that climate change, the already worsening demographic profile & decreasing difference in percentage points in the Hindu & Muslim populations in our East, the NE & Bangladesh too for that matter as far as population growth goes in spite of the strides they've made in reducing it , the growing radicalization of Muslims in Bangladesh & WB, with Assam to follow, the utterly reprehensible and shameless appeasement politics by the TMC & before them the Commies in WB & that of the Congress in Assam in accomodating and legalizing these illegal migrants till date & which the perpetrators will not be around to face innl the hour of reckoning , the apathy of the central governments to this festering problem coupled with utter economic neglect of the NE, the NRC tamasha , the supine judiciary, the feelings of an ordinary Bangladeshi for India and you have an even more explosive situation than one can even imagine to describe.
Our long term threat to the unity of WB & Assam, if not the whole of the NE to the Union of India, due to Bangladesh & Bangladeshis is even more pronounced as compared to J&K & Pakistan. Which is why it's imperative we solve the Pakistan conundrum one way or the other before we let China box us in from all three sides. Actually, the Chinese aren't even needed. Our apathy and the predatorial behavior of the Bangladeshis is enough to ensure it.
If you think this is an alarmist PoV, please read & think again. I'd love to be corrected by you on this "rant".
