Agartala, February 5 (TIWN): The DM-DC level meet at Tripura will lead India-Bangladesh relationship into a height of strong relationship as well as success. All the petty things which occur as hindrances to these two countries relationship is now seem to be fed in the darkness of night.

India's links with Bangladesh are civilization, cultural, social and economic. There is much that unites the two countries – a shared history and common heritage, linguistic and cultural ties, passion for music, literature and the arts. With Bangladesh, India shares not only common history of struggle for freedom and liberation but also enduring feelings of both fraternal as well as familial ties.

 Though India played the great role in emergence of Independent Bangladesh, was one of the first countries to recognize Bangladesh as separate state. However, there are several main issues such as illegal migration, insurgency, border, water disputes, and dispute over issue of Moore Island etc. These have been major issues which are impacted on these two countries relations. But in the recent meeting both the sides agreed to root out these issues. Like Illegal migration is one of the bones of the contention of these two countries, since the 1971war of independence that created the state of Bangladesh, millions of Bangladesh immigrants (the vast majority of them illegal) have poured into neighboring India.

Insurgency has been playing the role in straining relations of India with Bangladesh. Northeast India has been facing insurgency since 1956 due to feelings of ethnic separatism among its inhabitants. ISI is operating from Bangladesh, supporting the insurgents in the North east India. National Liberation of Tripura (NLFT), Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Bodo land (NDFM) are major insurgent groups in North east India. There are some rumors that ULFA has several lucrative income generating Projects in Bangladesh to sustain its insurgency activities in India.

At present time, as per sources of ministry of external affairs ministry, there has been progress in Indo- Bangladesh relations, held recent high level contacts to develop the relations between these two countries. With Bangladesh, India shares not only a common history of struggle for freedom and liberation but also enduring feelings of both fraternal as well as familial ties This commonality is reflected in multi-dimensional relations with Bangladesh at several levels of interaction. High-level exchanges, visits and meetings take place regularly alongside the wide ranging people to-people interaction. Both the sides had constructed border-haat which paved the way to exchange the thoughts, emotions between the brothers and sisters of these countries. Other than the rail connectivity between Tripura- Bangladesh will be launched soon.

The Ashuganj port serves as a major way to transport tones of rice from Andhra Pradesh. The delegates of the meeting hoped that the relation had definitely improved and this continues before every delegates talk.