Illegal foreigners in Assam

Illegal foreigners in Assam
Sir, – Instead of 1.20 crore illegal migrants in Assam, as claimed by the Indian government earlier, they abruptly changed the figure only to mere 26,669. If that be so, why did the people of Assam launch the six-year long movement to drive these mere 26,669 illegal aliens where more than six hundred youths sacrificed their precious lives ? If these people are not from Bangladesh from where have these people who occupied the char and chapori areas, VGR and PGR land, many areas of forest and reserved land, many areas of railway, PWD and other valuable land come from ? About thirty years ago these doubtful nationals were seen far away from our people but now they are found to occupy many areas near the indigenous population and these people are found to travel in large numbers in our buses causing inconveniences to our commuters. These people are going to jeopardise not only our social and economic structure and culture but also change the demography of the State.

The present Congress (I) led government in Assam should know that the per capita land of the native people of Assam is the lowest in India. There will hardly be any land left for our new generation. Hence Assam should not be made the dumping ground for these so called Indians and the 26,669 illegal Bangladeshi nationals. Therefore, these 26,669 illegal intruders should be expelled forcibly without referring to any tribunal. The rest of so called Indians should be shifted to other places in India where there is enough waste land. If Assam is an integral part of India there must be rule to drive out illegal aliens. Hence Foreigners Act of 1946 must be applicable to Assam also and there must not be a separate rule for Assam. If the Foreigners Act of 1946 can drive out the illegal intruders without harassing the Indian people then why not this rule be applicable to Assam also ? Do the Indian and Assam governments think the Assam police to be unkind to the genuine Indians ? If not what is the need of the IM(DT) Act ? Is it not to protect the vote bank ? All the illegal intruders from the foreign countries can be detected and deported through the Foreigners Act of 1946 then why should the aliens intruding in Assam should be detected and deported through IM(DT) Act and only those people who entered Assam after 1971 ? As reported by many people most of intruders were issued citizenship certificates by the interested circles. Therefore the Assam Accord should be declared nul and void. – Yours etc., T C SARMA, Guwahati.
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