Humayun Kabir welcomes Bengal cabinet decision on land handover to BSF​

Kolkata: Aam Janata Unnayan Party legislator Humayun Kabir on Monday welcomed the decision taken in the first meeting of the new cabinet in West Bengal, led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, to allocate land to the BSF for the installation of barbed fencing along the currently unfenced international border with Bangladesh within a period of 45 days.​

“The security of the state and the country is associated with this decision. Now there is a double-engine government in West Bengal. So, the long-pending work for ensuring border security should be completed immediately. The land issue related to the matter will be resolved soon,” Kabir told IANS.​

Kabir also said that he is placing his faith in the announcement of the new Chief Minister to deliver good governance to the people of the state.​

“The new Chief Minister had made a promise on this count. Let us have faith in his promises. Now it is to be seen how far the promises are delivered,” said Kabir.​

The decision taken in the first meeting of the new cabinet to hand over land to the Border Security Force within 45 days was previously promised in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s pre-election Sankalp Patra (election manifesto) and announced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.​

In fact, before the recently concluded West Bengal elections, Shah had specifically said that the decision on this land handover would be taken in the first meeting of the new cabinet, which was exactly done on Monday.​

Kabir, a former Trinamool Congress legislator, was suspended from the party before the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly election after he announced the construction of the Babri Mosque at Beldanga in his native and minority-dominated Murshidabad district, which would be on the lines of the original structure at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh that was demolished on December 6, 1992.​

Thereafter, he floated the Aam Janata Unnayan Party.​

Kabir contested simultaneously from two Assembly constituencies, namely Naoda and Rejinagar, both in Murshidabad district, and was elected from both.​

He is the second Member of the Legislative Assembly, after the new Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, to be elected simultaneously from two Assembly constituencies.​

Adhikari, this time, got elected simultaneously from his native Nandigram Assembly constituency in East Midnapore district and also from Bhabanipur in south Kolkata.​

At Bhabanipur, he defeated former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by a margin of over 15,000 votes.​

IANS