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Published : 11 May 2026, 06:09 PM
West Bengal’s newly formed government has moved swiftly to advance a border security plan, signalling early policy action from the new administration.
In his first cabinet meeting, the new Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said his government is going to transfer land to the Border Security Force (BSF) to erect a fence along the Bangladesh border.
On Monday, he said the land will be handed over within 45 days, according to the state-run DD News On Air.
This reflects a key election pledge by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Out of the 4,096km border between the two nations, India has already fenced 3,240km.
West Bengal shares more than 2,200km of its border with Bangladesh.
Suvendu took oath on Saturday, marking a political journey carrying a sense of symmetry and rupture in equal measure, News On Air said.
The BJP secured its first-ever victory in the state assembly election, ending the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) 15-year rule.
The central government’s Home Minister Amit Shah on Mar 28 announced that if the BJP comes to power in West Bengal, the process of allocating land for border fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh border will be completed within 45 days.
Security experts described the plan as “unrealistic and ambitious”.
Chairing the cabinet meeting, Suvendu accused the TMC government of withholding land to “encourage infiltration”.
“This government will do away with the practice for the party by the party and ensure the constitutional principles of government for the people by the people,” The Hindu quoted him as saying.
Adding that the committee agreed on six decisions in total, he said: “We are committed towards the well-being of 321 families of martyrs who laid their lives as BJP supporters.
“We have started land transfer to the BSF for securing borders. The chief secretary and the secretary of the state’s land and land revenue department have been asked to complete the process of land transfer within the next 45 days,” he said.
He alleged that the TMC government did not implement the new criminal law of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the official criminal code of India, but his first cabinet meeting granted official sanction for it to come into force.
