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Bangladesh asks India to investigate Jamaat-e-

Islami link with Trinamool Congress
Dhaka believes that many leaders of the banned out t are hiding in West Bengal

Published:  September 20, 2014 17:56

By Archisman Dinda, Correspondent

Kolkata: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmoud Ali, has urged New Delhi to take action against
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders for sending large amounts of money to Jamaat-e-Islami, a banned outfit.

Ali, who is in New Delhi to attend the third meeting of India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission, meet his
Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi on Saturday to discuss bilateral and regional issues. Both the
leaders held discussions with their officials.

“Bangladesh is extremely worried about the reports that money collected in the Saradha scam has been used to
fund the Jamaat-e-Islami, the terror group which has been trying to destabilise the Shaikh Hasina government. We
have assured them of all possible help,” Sujata Singh India’s foreign secretary said.

Sources indicate, that Ali, who also meet Ajit Doval Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Security Advisor
asked him to take action against Jamaat-e-Islami leaders who have fled Bangladesh in the last one year and is
hiding in West Bengal under the shelter of TMC leaders.

“ e allegation made by Bangladesh foreign minister is of serious concern for our internal security. We have asked
him to give details of the leaders of the banned outfit who are hiding in Bengal and necessary action will be taken,”
said a senior official in the PMO.

Bangladesh government, which had faced a serious uprising in the country last year, as it undertook a massive
operation against such terror outfits who were using the country to spread radical messages and create civil
disorder.

“Our government has taken a huge risk in getting into fight against such organisation. However, it now seems that
certain elements in India, including lawmakers were helping them as millions of dollars were illegally transferred
to the organisation through the international border,” said an official of the Bangladeshi consulate in Kolkata.

ough TMC leaders have brushed the accusation sighting them as biased report of a Bengali newspaper trying to
destabilise West Bengal, sources say that Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate
investigating the scam is close to arresting the alleged lawmaker.

“We have evidence of the same that money collected in the scam were illegally transferred to Bangladesh,” said an
investigating officer.

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