India, June 6 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said demographic changes in West Bengal, Tripura and Bihar will not be tolerated, as he addressed BSF personnel at the Lankamura Border Outpost along the India-Bangladesh frontier in Tripura. Shah said the Centre is accelerating efforts to secure the country's 6,000-kilometre frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The remarks come two weeks after the Government constituted a high-level committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar to map demographic shifts caused by illegal immigration and "abnormal settlement patterns." Shah said infiltration will be stopped, every infiltrator identified and deported, and the "conspiracy" to engineer artificial change...