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If youths want our help for agitation, we’re ready: Sushma

The following is from "the Sentinel" of Assam

By our Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, Aug 13: If Bangladeshis staying illegally in Assam are to be deported, a movement like the Assam Agitation is needed, and if the youths of the State are ready for such an agitation again, the BJP will extend its helping hand, said Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj today. She said this in her address to the conclave on ‘‘Assam: Looking Back to Look Ahead — With Focus on Bangladeshi Infiltration’’ organized by the Northeast Policy Institute in the city on its concluding day.

The BJP leader said that the Assam Agitation was a huge and spontaneous mass movement whose purpose and objectives were absolutely right, but there were defects in the Assam Accord that had been signed between the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and the Government of India to put an end to the agitation. “The Assam Accord’s acceptance of the IM(DT) Act for detection and deportation of Bangladeshis was a blunder. The Accord failed to give anything worthwhile to the State as the Numaligarh Refinery, IIT-Guwahati etc could have been set up in the State without such an agitation. The main purpose of the Assam Agitation — deportation of Bangladeshis from the State — has not been served. Illegal infiltration from Bangladesh has been posing a serious threat to the demography of the State. The identity of the indigenous people of Assam is at stake due to unabated infiltration from Bangladesh. From that point of view, the Assam Accord has utterly failed. The BJP always considers illegal infiltration from Bangladesh as a serious threat to our national security. To free Assam from illegal Bangladeshis, another movement like the Assam Agitation is needed. If the youths of the State want us to help them, we are prepared to extend our helping hand.”

Swaraj further said that besides sar areas and reserve forest lands, Bangladeshis were also encroaching on the xatra lands in the State. “If this is not a threat to the security and culture of the indigenous people of the State, what else is?” she questioned, and added: “Nobody can give the exact number of Bangladeshis living in the State. Courts, the State Government and the Foreigners Tribunals give different figures. Influx is bringing about a drastic demographic change in Assam, but the corrupt State Government continues to ignore the matter. If a Rs 1,000-crore scam can take place in a small district like NC Hills, one can imagine the enormity of the amount that has been swindled in the entire State.”

Senior journalist DN Chakravarty said that the Assam Accord was something like an outdated cheque. “The Accord has failed to deport any Bangladeshis after its signing. Accepting March 25, 1971 as the cut-off date in so far as deportation of Bangladeshis is concerned is a historic blunder,” he said.

Earlier during the first session on ‘‘demography, land rights and citizenship’’, Editor of the Assam edition of The Sentinel Bikash Sarmah appealed to the younger generation of the State to be aware of the ‘‘reality’’ of the problem of illegal immigration from Bangladesh. ‘‘The reality is that it is a design to reduce the indigenous people of Assam into a minority for the making of a greater Islamic State of Bangladesh. Pseudo-secularists would not agree, but the Bangladesh chapter of the Pakistan Army’s ISI is in the special business of completing the unfinished agenda of Partition. The idea is to get Assam annexed to Bangladesh. This is an absolutist design. Let us be very clear about that... Is there any change after the abrogation of the notorious pro-Bangladeshi IM(DT) Act? Not at all. In fact, practically, there is no immigration law in the State today because the government of the day does not have the will to detect and deport illegal Bangladeshis to their native land,’’ he said. Sarmah exhorted the younger generation of the State to ‘‘deliberate on the issue honestly and seriously’’.

AIUDF working president HRA Choudhury said: “Infiltration is a threat to the nation. Had the international border been sealed, infiltration from Bangladesh would have been a matter of the past. The BSF never hands over any detected Bangladeshis to the BDR that doesn’t accept them. The BSF only leaves the foreigners near the border in forest areas. This practice enables the ‘deported’ Bangladeshis to come back to Assam. The Government of India should sort out the matter with the Bangladesh Government. If Bangladeshis are to be deported from Assam, we need to prepare a correct NRC. A committee should be formed with representatives from all parties and organizations to reach a consensus on the issue.”

Advocate Siddhartha Bhattacharya of the Gauhati High Court, pro-talks ULFA leader Mrinal Hazarika, Dr Nani Gopal Mahanta of Gauhati University and BBC correspondent Subir Bhaumik also spoke on the occasion.

Deportation of unwanted people is always a problem and the country to which they are deported always pushes them back.
Britain solved its problems by deporting all its criminals to Australia.
India has no such place where it can deport the unwanted Bangladeshis.
It should then follow the second option which had been advocated by me earlier.
Put them in small boats off the coast of Myammar with food and provision for two or three days and let them fend for themeselves.
The provision should be enough for them to reach the Bangladesh coast.
If their government accepts them, well and good, otherwise they can go to any of the muslim countries like Saudi Arabiwho are always advocating their rights and financing terrorism all over the world.
India cannot afford to be the dustbin of all refugees of mismanged countries.
We have enough problems created by our politicians.
Look up any newspaper.
Muslims who constitute 15% of our population (they were 10% after independence in 1947), are associated with 85% of all the criminal activities we read about in the papers.
And yet our prime minister says we should not mention it, for vote bank politics.