The Myth of Demographic Shift On 28 May, Malda Superintendent of Police told Bengali news outlet Sangbandh Pratidin that they have nine suspected Bangladesh citizens in their "holding centre". Earlier, CM Adhikari had announced the same. This holding cell is the first one in West Bengal to come up as part of the BJP's "detect, delete, deport" policy to weed out alleged illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, followed by holding centres in Basirhat and Murshidabad, among others.