Border tensions between India and Bangladesh have sharply escalated since the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government in August 2024, with Bangladesh's Border Guard (BGB) reporting that Indian border forces pushed more than 2,300 people across the frontier between May 2025 and January 2026, including individuals later confirmed to be Indian nationals. The practice, which Bangladeshi authorities call "push-ins," involves the informal transfer of people across the border by India's Border Security Force (BSF) without following agreed verification and repatriation procedures, and has been documented across all edges of the shared frontier — from Rajshahi and Rangpur in the north to Satkhira in the southwest. The pace of incidents reportedly accelerated after the BJP (India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party) won control of West Bengal state in April 2026 on a platform of detecting and deporting undocumented Bangladeshi migrants, with the new state government ordering crackdowns and announcing holding centres — measures that, under India's 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act, apply exclusively to Muslim migrants.