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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (RD/CN)
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Mangalore, Nov 12: The call for a college bundh given by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishat (ABVP) evoked a mixed response on Wednesday November 12. The bundh was in opposition of the union government’s failure to curb Bangladeshi infiltrators from entering Indian territory.
Although several colleges functioned as usual on Wednesday, attendance was minimal with students boycotting classes in some institutions. Around 100 students affiliated to ABVP staged a protest in front of St Aloysius College. The examinations at Mangalore University College and Badriya College, in the city went by smoothly, informed police sources.
The ABVP had called for a nationwide bundh alleging that evil plans are being hatched to create a greater Bangladesh in 30 districts of the adjoining states of Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand.
The ABVP demanded that measures be taken to identify Bangladeshi nationals in these states and deport them, to delete their names from voters’ lists, to erect a strong fence along the India-Bangladesh border, and to enact a law to curb terrorism in the nation. Besides, strict action must be taken to control criminal activities in the border areas, to stop peddling of arms and drugs and to put pressure on the Bangladesh government to accept their nationals.
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