GUWAHATI, Feb 2 – The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to bring in one lakh party workers from all over the State to gherao the seat of power, Dispur, on the very first day of the next session of the State Assembly. The purpose is to pressurise the Tarun Gogoi-led Congress Government to quit office. The BJP says that the Gogoi Government has lost all moral authority to govern.
“The performance of any government is based on three basic parameters: social well being, economic development and law and order. On all these counts, the performance of the Government has gone from bad to worse,” said Nagaon MP and former state president of the party Rajen Gohain during a press conference here this afternoon. Gohain is the chairman of the agitational management committee of the BJP constituted last week.
Accusing the Government of turning a blind eye to the threat of infiltration from Bangladesh, Gohain said there is a conspiracy to turn the State into an Islamic homeland. “The conspiracy has been on ever since Independence and the Congress has been extending support to it,” he alleged. He accused the Congress Government of failing to control the rise of religious (meaning Islamic) militancy while “supporting the cause of the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.”
Gohain said that while the ruling party is going all out to retain the controversial IM (DT) Act to help infiltration of Muslims, people belonging to the Bengali Hindu community are being harassed. Citing the example of his own constituency, he said that some 5000 Bengali Hindu families in Nagaon district have been served notices asking them to prove their nationality.
Displaying one such notice before the presspersons, Gohain said that one Islam Bora, the police IC (Border) in Nagaon, has been issuing notices to people who have been staying in the State for generations. Bora, he alleged, is the one who remained a mute spectator when a Muslim mob struck terror in Nagaon town on December 6, 1992, the day the disputed Babri Masjid structure was demolished. The policeman was the OC of the Nagaon Sadar Thana at that time. He has been brought back by Rockybul, Gohain said.
“Covert and overt attempts has been made several times to incite communal clashes by bomb blasts in Hindu festivals and breaking of mandirs, etc in order to reap political mileage. The government is thus only facilitating the establishment of a greater Islamic State here,” Gohain stated. He pointed out that six districts in the State are already Muslim dominated and several more are on the verge of becoming so. The conspiracy of an Islamic homeland is reaching its climax during Tarun Gogoi’s reign, he said. The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) had, in its nine years in power, failed to take a single step to stop infiltration, he stated.
The BJP leader said that the fact that Rockybul Hussain is the State Home Minister has added to the crisis facing the indigenous Assamese people. The Minister is aiding and abetting infiltration, he alleged. He also alleged that the Minister has initiated a policy of recruiting personnel in the police force on communal lines.
“The people of Assam, regardless of community, caste and creed, must unite to face the threat to the state and community,” Gohain appealed. Even the Assamese Muslims are not safe among the infiltrators. He said that the scheduled 2006 Assembly elections could well be the turning point to decide the fate of the State. “It would be the last chance for the people to save Assam and the Assamese.”
BJP president Indramoni Bora said that the party would reach out to 15,000 villages in the state this year carrying across the message of the threat posed by infiltration. “It is a message that we will carry out from our heart,” he said.
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