West Bengal to Implement Assam-Style Detect, Delete, Deport’ Policy Against Illegal Immigrants

Following a major political shift in the state, the West Bengal government has announced a sweeping, aggressive crackdown targeting illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. Newly appointed Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari revealed that the state will strictly replicate Assam’s high-profile “detect, delete, deport” governance model to systematically address undocumented migration. Under this new policy, authorities will conduct intensive identity verification drives across various districts, strip identified illegal infiltrators of their fraudulent Indian credentials, and actively hand them over to the Border Security Force (BSF) for immediate pushbacks across the international border.

This decisive structural shift aligns West Bengal directly with the central government’s wider, national security directive to accelerate the identification and removal of undocumented foreign nationals. The introduction of the policy follows massive pre-election mandates and recent nationwide verification exercises, where thousands of suspected migrants have been rounded up across multiple states and flown to eastern border regions for expedited deportation. While the standard diplomatic repatriation processes remain lengthy and complex, West Bengal’s adaptation of the Assam model aims to immediately neutralize regional voting roll discrepancies and ensure that state-backed welfare resources are strictly preserved for verified Indian citizens.