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Publication: PTI
Date: January 19, 2002
The West Bengal government would
take tough measures against non-affiliated madrasas that came up in the
bordering districts of the state, the Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee
said on Saturday.
The madrasas, funded from abroad,
are steadily increasing in number in the state and the goernment has prepared
a list of them to take immediate action, Bhattacharjee said at a press
conference here.
He, however, assured the affiliated
madrasas that they had no reason to be worried.
Following the arrest of ISI agents
from Malda, Murshidabad, Kolkata and Siliguri in the recent past, it was
establised that ISI was active in the state and that the government had
taken all measures to find out and bring to book the agents, the chief
minister said.
Apprehending that Maoists and ISI
agents might sneak into the state from Nepal border into Darjeeling district,
he said he had requested Union Home Minister L K Advani to review the existing
Indo-Nepal Treaty.
