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Publication: EastIndiawatch.blogspot.com
Date: August 5, 2008
URL: http://eastindiawatch.blogspot.com/2008/08/aasu-assam-providing-safe-corridor-to.html
The All Assam Students Union (AASU) has raised
alarm once again over the infiltration of Jehadi elements through porous Indo-bangladesh
border and warned that the whole country has to bear the brunt of infiltration
in the form of terror strikes if it is not stopped immediately.
AASU adviser Samujjal Bhattacharya said this
while addressing a press conference and added that Assam has become the safe
corridor for the Jehadi elements due to the porous Indo-Bangladesh international
border.
"We have been shouting for long to seal
the international border and deport illegal migrants from Bangladesh. Neither
the Centre nor the state governments had taken it seriously. Today the unabated
influx has taken the form of terrorism, and triggering blasts across the country,"
Bhattacharya said.
AASU leaders blamed all the political parties,
including Congress, BJP, AGP and Left for not being serious on stopping influx
of Bangladeshi nationals.
"Only for the sake of vote bank, political
parties have blatantly been turning blind eye on the influx. We earnestly
appeal to the political parties to give up their love for vote banks for the
sake of Assam's and indigenous people's security. Centre became alert to the
threats of Bangladeshis when terror struck near its door step. Not when we
are raising the issue for such a long time," AASU president Shankar Prasad
Roy lambasted.
The student body said that the Gauhati High
Court has clearly highlighted the problem of Bangladeshi migrants to Assam
in its recent verdict.
A recent judgment of the High court stated
that "
. large number of Bangladeshis present in the State
of Assam have a major role in electing the representatives both to the Legislative
Assembly and the Parliament and consequently, in the decision making process
towards building the nation. They have become kingmakers."
AASU demanded that government should set up
detention camps in the state so that if someone is detected as Bangladeshi
national, could not abscond.
"If influx continues days are not far
when Assam will have foreign national as Chief minister," AASU general
secretary Tapan Kumar Gogoi warned.