Infiltration from Pak being ignored: Sena after passage of CAB

The Shiv Sena on Thursday(December 12) sought to know why the government was ignoring infiltration attempts from Pakistan, even as India was preparing to provide citizenship to religiously persecuted refugees from neighbouring countries.

An atmosphere is being created for granting citizenship to refugees, an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana said, and asked whether the government would open its eyes over the issue of intrusion from Pakistan.

It said the government’s claim that the situation in Kashmir after the revocation of Article 370 is fine was wrong, as there have been 84 infiltration attempts from Pakistan and 59 terrorists have entered India since the scrapping of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in August.

“An atmosphere is being built for granting citizenship to refugees, but will the government open its eyes to address this (issue of infiltration)?” the Sena asked.

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The Shiv Sena, which backed the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha on Monday(December 9), staged a walkout ahead of voting on it in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday (December 11), citing unsatisfactory response to the queries raised by the party.

“It is surprising that despite information given by the government in Parliament about rising incidents of infiltration bids from across the border, there has been no discussion or debate over the issue,” the Sena said.

Between 2005 and 2019, the Indian security forces arrested 42 terrorists and foiled bids of 2,253 intruders, the Uddhav Thackeray-led said, adding that in the last 14 years, the security forces killed 1,110 terrorists. Infiltration was at its peak between 2014 and 2019,
the Sena stated.

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It said as per the annual report released by the Ministry of Home Affairs in October this year, Pakistan made 328 infiltration bids in 2018 of which 143 were successful. In 2018, 257 terrorists were killed and 91 jawans were martyred in encounters with terrorists, the Sena said.