Author: PTI
Publication: Press Trust of India
Date: October 8, 2008
URL: http://www.ptinews.com/pti/ptisite.nsf/0/5ED68EDA181B522B652574DC004ABA4E?OpenDocument
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,
BJP MP Khiren Rijiju today said the ethnic clashes in Assam are "threatening
the existence" of indigenous societies in the state.
"Sir, your Home Constituency of Assam is burning... The ongoing ethnic
clash in the state, is becoming very serious and threatening the very existence
of indigenous societies of Assam," Rijiju said.
"It is time to play the national integrity
card not the political card. Indigenous people are becoming refugees, land
owners are becoming landless. Local people can not travel around freely in
their own homeland," Rijiju said in his letter to Singh, who represents
Assam in the Upper House.
The MP from Arunachal Pradesh also alleged
the Congress of "supporting" illegal Bangladeshi migration for the
sake of enjoying power.
"I had great hope in you (Manmohan Singh)
as you are considered to be apolitical person and an honest man, who will
think only for greater interest of the nation and not pursue the Congress
agenda," Rijiju added.
"Sir, time is running fast. We have lost
the battle. But let us not loose the war. Listen to the voice of the indigenous
people of Assam. If you do not listen to their voice today, you will never
get to listen to them tomorrow," he said.
