This is Ayesha Jannat, a popular leader of Jamatul Mujahideen, a terrorist outfit in Bangladesh. She was arrested last Thursday.
It turns out that Ayesha is Pragya Debnath, a Sanskrit student from Hoogly in Bengal.
This is the extent of radicalisation that is happening in Bengal.

I must tell you this tragic story. It pains me to see how Bengal is changing for the worse. We tend to look at Calcutta when we say "Bengal" but the real radicalisation of young minds is happening in the interiors of Bengal, in the districts.

Below, is a THREAD on Ayesha Jannat.

Pragya Debnath was a student at Dhaniakhali college in Bengal.
Her mother Geeta, is a seamstress and the family bread winner.
Her father Pradip, a security guard, lost his job during the lockdown. Pragya's Class X & XII results were good and she chose to study Sanskrit in college

While studying in college, she came in contact with a boy of a different community. Turns out, he is a terrorist.
They started dating.
This boy introduced Pragya to online terror groups in Bangladesh.
Few months later, Pragya decided to change her religion and marry the boy.

On September 24, 2016, Pragya left home for Calcutta to boy books.
She never returned.
Months later, her mother received a call.
Pragya informed that she has changed her religion & married her boyfriend.
Thus was born Ayesha Jannat Mohona, a famous terrorist leader of Bangladesh.

Pragya landed in Bangladesh.
She took had two names. One is her real name (Jannatul Tasmin) but also had another name assigned to her as a terrorist (as is the norm with most terror organisations). That is Ayesha.
Ayesha started off with radicalising young minds in online forums.

Ayesha then started teaching children in an unregistered madrassa of Bangladesh, widely believed to be the hot-bed of terror indoctrination programmes.
Soon, there came an opportunity as Bangladesh police arrested Aasmani Khatun, the leader of women's wing of Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen

Ayesha Jannat Mohona became the leader of the Women's Wing of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB from March 2020. She also married a wealthy Bangladeshi terror financier from Oman, over the phone.
Ayesha's primary responsibilities were to indoctrinate people in online forums.

The elevation of Ayesha came with an infamous achievement. She became the first ever convert to have become a leader of a terror organisation that is patronised by the ISIS.
Soon Bangladesh anti-terror unit formed a special team to track her movements.
She was arrested from Dhaka

During interrogation, Ayesha revealed how semi-urban areas in the districts of Bengal have become terror incubation units. Ayesha specialised in radicalising students of madrassas on both sides of the border. Most such madrassas are unregistered but enjoy huge political patronage

Ayesha disappeared from her home in 2016. She called her mother to inform that she has converted and in Bangladesh.
She was a student of a college & the disappearance was widely known.
Then why did the police not know about this?
Why did we know only after Bangladesh informed us?

The answer lies in the replies of Ayesha during her interrogation. It is now known that she freely slipped in and out of India and was associated with Madrassas indoctrinating young minds.
The sleeper terror cells in Bengal are active than ever before and multiplied rapidly.

After her arrest from Sadargat in Bangladesh on July 16, there was no visible stress on Pragya's face.
In fact, she answered all the questions posed to her calmly and with poise. She has also detailed how she used to cross between boundaries & functioned within the terror network

Some cops have brushed aside the incident saying that Ayesha wasn't involved in an active terror operation and that she wasn't high up in the hierarchy.
They're misinformed about outfits like ISIS where women aren't usually involved in ops.
They are used to indoctrinate & recruit

It's worrying that the incident wasn't known till the National Investigation Agency stepped in.
Ayesha’s arrest came to light three months after the NIA arrested a college student called Tania Parveen, a Laskar-e-Taiba(LeT) member & ISIS agent, in Basirhat of Bengal, during March

Ayesha's arrest confirms an oft-heard rumour that the interiors of Bengal have become a hot bed for terror activities. That the sleeper terror cells of Bangladesh are operating practically unhindered. The activities of several madrassas and religious leaders are suspect

Here's a report on @DhakaTribune about the arrest of Ayesha. Many Indian news agencies have picked that up since. There are few contradictions about the information I have received and what has been reported here. Nevertheless, basic facts remain the same. https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/dhaka/2020/07/17/neo-jmb-women-s-wing-member-arrested-in-dhaka

Right now, there is no doubt that Bengal is a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists. With ample support and infrastructure from their Bangladeshi counterparts, these terror incubation centres are spawning.
And things may soon spiral out of control. https://www.opindia.com/2020/07/west-bengal-pragya-converted-to-islam-2009-ayesha-jannat-arrested-bangladesh-jbm-terror-link/

A rapidly changing demography & a passive security apparatus, might encourage these terror elements to start large-scale operations in Bengal. They will start neutralising their opponents (read Hindus) in their typical fashion.
Remember this incident? https://twitter.com/Soumyadipta/status/1282537223129186311?s=20

It's time that the central intelligence security agencies set up their bases in Bengal.
We are already fighting a daily war with terrorists in Kashmir.
Let's prevent Bengal from becoming Kashmir.
Let's act when there's still time and opportunity.
I am still hopeful.

Thread ends.