Centre will facilitate NE states to have adequate safety measures in view of growing threats from across border: Paul

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaApril 5, 2025

Cabinet minister and government spokesperson Paul Lyngdoh on Friday expressed confidence that the Centre will facilitate states in the North Eastern region to have adequate safety measures in view of the growing threats from across the border. 

Referring to the offensive remarks made by the Bangladesh interim government’s chief advisor Muhammad Yunus against the NE states during his recent 4-day trip to China, Lyngdoh said, “Such issues has been flagged by the chief minister himself before the union home ministry and with the latest issue being raised by Bangladesh about their tieing up with China and seeing it as a potential partner, I am sure the Centre will live up to our expectation and facilitate states in the NE to have adequate safety measures in view of growing threats from across the border.”

Lyngdoh also informed that he had a couple of discussions with the DG of BSF and said, “They are alive to these concerns. There are a lot of area, which need adequate and immediate attention. For instance, the fact that even when we have general elections, their forces and their men are being pressed into services for conduct of elections – all these also affects our ability to be on our guard 24X7. So, these are issues that the CM himself has flagged before the union home ministry.”

He also commented that the current regime in Bangladesh itself is very unstable, almost very tentative and ad hoc kind of an arrangement. 

“So, they are bound to say a lot of things because they are actually not an elected government and they are also under alot of pressure from within their own country but to answer to your query, the state government is alive to the need for us to prepare adequately to the challenges of a hugely populated neighbouring country, which is very unstable,”Lyngdoh said.

Asked, the minister said, “That has been our effort and the fact that the union home ministry has been repeatedly asking various central establisments including forces like the BSF to be on their guard is indicative of the seriousness with which the issue is treated.”