Himanta Biswa Sarma’s statement comes weeks after Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus’s remarks on India’s “chicken’s neck”, a narrow strip of land in West Bengal.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday attacked those who “habitually threaten” India on the “Chicken Neck corridor” and said they should note that Bangladesh has two such narrow strips of land, which are “far more vulnerable.”
His statement comes weeks after Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus’s remarks on “Chicken’s Neck“, a narrow strip of land in West Bengal’s Siliguri that connects the northeast region with the rest of India.
Mr Sarma, who heads one of the seven states in the northeast, said Bangladesh’s first “Chicken Neck” is the 80-kilometre-long North Bangladesh Corridor between Dakhin Dinajpur and South West Garo Hills.
“Any disruption here can completely isolate the entire Rangpur division from the rest of Bangladesh,” he posted on X and shared a map detailing the route.
He said the second one is the 28-kilometre-long Chittagong Corridor, from South Tripura to the Bay of Bengal.
“This corridor, smaller than India’s chicken neck, is the only link between Bangladesh’s economic capital and political capital,” he said.
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