UPA stops BSF troops from firing weapons, puts lives at risk – II

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Bold and Right
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
By Priyadarshi Dutta on Aug 20, 2013 

This is the concluding part of a two-part article. You can read the first part here.

By muzzling the Border Security Force’s (BSF) firepower on India-Bangladesh border, the UPA Government has left frontier citizens to the wolves. The cattle traffickers, in collusion with raiders from across the border are regularly preying upon innocents on the West Bengal border. A two-part story carried by the Bengali daily Anandabazar Patrika on June 21 and June 23, 2013 would be illustrative.

UPA stops BSF troops from firing weapons, puts lives at risk – I

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Bold and Right
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

By Priyadarshi Dutta on Aug 21, 2013 

This is the first of a two-part article. The next part will be published tomorrow.

The nation did not mourn the death of sub inspector Rajender Singh of 91st battalion BSF, who passed away at a Kolkata hospital on July 22. Perhaps only the Times of India cared to report about him. He would be placed at the end of a martyrs’ list on the website of Border Security Force not updated since 2009. A fortnight later, India exploded in anger when five Indian soldiers were killed along the LoC in Jammu & Kashmir by Pakistani marauders in uniform. The Opposition read between the lines of the Raksha Mantri’s statement of August 6 to accuse him of exonerating Pakistan. The Opposition prevailed after a day of standoff, compelling the Minister to revise his statement.