If Bangladesh President Khaleda Zia thought that the regime change in India would earn her respite from New Delhi's consistent protests about the unabated influx of immigrants from her country, she was mistaken.
In his meeting with Khaleda, on the margins of the BIMST-EC meet in Bangkok last weekend, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue, as well as mushrooming camps of various anti-India groups.
While Khadel, as usual, was in the denial mode, Singh, according to sources, managed to extract an assurance that she would look afresh into India's complains about continuing influx of Bangladeshis through the 4096 km-long porous border.
Interestingly, it was only a couple
of weeks ago that infiltration of Bangladeshis caused flutter in the government
when minister of state for home affairs Sriprakash Jaiswal came up with
an alarming estimate of Bangladeshis staying in India,. Later, much to
the embarrassment of the UPA government, Jaiswal clarified in the House
that the figures were incorrect and based on hearsay.