Sunday, August 7 2005 19:48 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kolkata: Charging the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) Government at the Centre and West Bengal's ruling Left Front with inaction on the infiltration problem, the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) today (Aug 07, 2005) demanded a white paper from the state government on influx from Bangladesh and said a NDA (National Democratic Alliance) delegation would meet President A P J Abdul Kalam tomorrow (Aug 08, 2005) to apprise him of the problem.

NDA convenor George Fernandes, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and other leaders would be in the delegation, BJP general secretary Rajnath Singh told a press conference here (Kolkata).

He accused the CPI-M-led (Communist Party of India Marxist) Left Front government of not identifying and taking any action against the Bangladeshi infiltrators during its 28 year-rule and demanded that it come out with a white paper on the issue.

Singh, who held a two-day meeting with party functionaries in the state, directed them to identify the infiltrators in each district and submit a report to the party by September 15.

Supporting Banerjee, who had created a flutter in the Lok Sabha last week on the infiltration issue and submitted her resignation for being disallowed to speak, Singh said ''She had not committed any offence by trying to raise the issue.

Infiltration is a national problem and Parliament should take cognisance of that.''

Charging the UPA government with inaction, he said "when the Government acts deaf and dumb, one sometimes violates dignity and crosses the limit of propriety.''