A high-level delegation of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) reached New Delhi on Monday for the bi-annual Director General level talks with the Border Security Force (BSF) The bilateral talks will be held on Tuesday. India is going to raise issues concerning Indian insurgent groups in Bangladesh apart from recent attacks on BSF personnel and Indian civilians by Bangladeshi nationals. The talks also gain significance as India for the last many months has been expressing concerns over the steady increase in alignment between Bangladesh’s interim government and Pakistan. India and Bangladesh share a 4,096 km-long border spanning across five states – West Bengal (2,217 km), Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Assam (262 km) and Mizoram (318 km) The 55th Director General-level Border Coordination Conference between the two forces will be at the BSF headquarters. The last edition of these bi-Annual talks was held in Dhaka in March last year.
