India, May 31 -- Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday that persons with origins in Bangladesh who have been declared foreign nationals by tribunals in the state are being pushed back to the neighbouring country as per directives of the Supreme Court and the process would continue.

"There are two types of intruders. Those who have entered recently or are trying to enter India, and those who have been staying here for many years and have been declared as foreign nationals by tribunals. Unless they have stay orders from courts or have challenged the orders of the tribunals claiming to be Indians, the government is bound to push them back to Bangladesh as per directions given by the Supreme Court," he said, an apparent ref...