Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has said that there are inputs of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) using madrasas in Burdwan and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal for radicalisation and recruitment activities. Centre has already announced JMB as a terrorist organisation.
On October 2, 2014, a blast took place in a house in West Bengal's Burdwan district in which a man identified as Sakil Gazi died. The NIAin its investigation revealed that the JMB members wanted to establish Sharia rule by overthrowing the democratically elected government in Bangladesh. Similarly, JMB was involved in the Bodh Gaya blast.
As per reports, JMB has set up terror factories in the border areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal and it has even got support from Lashkar-e-Toiba.
The JMB is using bordering area not only for hideout but also for recruitment as well. Recruitment is done through madrasas, mosques and their network is especially active in Murshidabad, Malda, and Nadia
districts of West Bengal and parts of Muslim-majority districts in Assam.
MHA to a written reply to Lok Sabha also said information has been received about a number of incidents of violence before and after the General Election-2019 resulting in death and injuries to several people including political workers in West Bengal.
Reacting to reports, West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee said he has not yet seen the MHA statement. I don’t know whether the state home department has received any such letters or not, he said
"I haven’t seen the statement. First I will go through the statement then respond," the TMC leader said. Reacting to an incident where a madrasa teacher was allegedly pushed off a train for refusing to chant "Jai Shri Ram", he said, "Pushing off a Madrasa teacher and forcing him to chant Jai Shree Ram is also not right."
