Minister Ghosh speaks to BSF officers on Monday as residents of Kalsigram stand beyond the barbed wire fence. As the village is beyond the barbed fencing, which is 1km from the international frontier, the residents need to cross gates manned by the BSF to enter the Indian mainland. “A couple of days ago, the BSF closed down all gates on the border because of the lockdown. However, the BSF men at the border are not letting us pass through the gates,” said Ramesh Mondal, a farmer at Boyra-Kulnandapur village in North 24-Parganas district. On Tuesday, around 200 farmers there agitated when the BSF did not let them cross the gates.

Source: The Telegraph April 14, 2020 20:26 UTC