A tense situation continued in Dahagram border at Patgram in Lalmonirhat as the Indian Border Security Force made no response to Border Guard Bangladesh鈥檚 call for holding a flag meeting over the construction barbed wire fence till Saturday evening.聽
The BSF with the help of 30-35 people constructed a four-foot high barbed wire fence on a stretch of about one kilometre and a half on the zero line Friday morning amid a tense situation as the BGB protested against it.聽
High officials of both the BSF and the BGB visited the bordering area Saturday morning while authorities from the both sides increased deployment of聽 forces along the border, said local people and BGB officials in the district.聽
Dahagram Union Parishad member Golam Rabbani said that the BSF had started constructing the barbed wire fence on the zero line of the border illegally.聽
鈥業f India does not remove the barbed wire fence from the zero line, we will launch a movement,鈥� he said.聽
BGB 51 Battalion assistant director Amir Khasru said that the BSF did not respond to the BGB calls for a flag meeting over the issue.聽
鈥楾he situation is normal. We have deployed additional BGB members on borders. We have urged general people to remain alert,鈥� Amir said.
He said that they were trying to resolve the issue at the earliest in consultation with the higher authorities concerned.聽
Tensions along the Indian border have been increasing since the final week of December 2024 over the construction of fences.聽
The Border Guard Bangladesh has protested at the Indian Border Security Force installing iron electric poles and an electric device on the zero line along the border at Patgram in Lalmonirhat.
The BGB issued the protest on Wednesday.
Later on the day, the BGB and the BSF held a flag meeting over the issue.聽
In Chapainawabganj, tension gripped local villagers as the BSF on Wednesday again began constructing fences along the border at Shibganj amid deployment of additional forces on both sides of the border.
The Indian border force later stopped the construction as the BGB intervened.
Earlier on December 29, BSF members from the Sabdalpur BSF camp in the Gopalganj police jurisdiction in India鈥檚 Malda district began constructing a barbed wire fence along the border.
BGB members on Wednesday also halted the BSF attempts to erect barbed wire fences on the no-man鈥檚 land at Dhamoirhat in Naogaon.聽
The international law does not allow installing any such infrastructure within 150 yards of the no-man鈥檚 land.