Power Of Bangladeshi

The attack and burning of villages of the people of Assam origin and the killings of the locals by the organized gangs of Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators in Assam in the first week of October 2008 is a very serious matter. The Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal strongly condemns it. The Bangladeshi Muslims have torched more than 40 villages including Mangaldoi in Darrang and Udalgudi districts and killed more than 70 people. Hundreds are injured and more than 80,000 people have been displaced and living in camps. The Bangladeshis have hoisted Pakistani flags at various places and took out processions raising slogans like ‘Pakistan Zindabad’. The ABKM considers it as a very serious incident. It may be recalled that Mangaldoi is the same place where, owing to the sudden increase of Bangladeshi infiltrators in the voters’ list for the Lok Sabha by-election in 1979, an unprecedented statewide agitation was launched in Assam during 1979-85. It is unfortunate that the Governments, influenced by electoral considerations, have failed to find a satisfactory solution to it till date. Today the situation has turned so grave that thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims are attacking and burning the local villages. It is to be noted that there are more than 3,000 villages today in Assam where the Bangladeshi Muslims have come and settled down. They occupied lands on the river banks, vacant government lands, vast protected forest lands and sacred lands belonging to the hundreds of ‘Satras’ (Hindu religious places). The Bangladeshi Muslims have become the majority in a very large part of Assam and it has become difficult for the Hindu society to live there with security and honour. Another important reason for the current conflict is the illegal occupation of thousands of acres of ‘Bodo Tribal Autonomous Region’ by the Bangadeshi Muslims. The involvement of Bangladeshi infiltrators in the terrorist acts perpetrated all over the country is well-known. It is a matter of grave concern that over 20 terrorist organizations operating in N-E region are getting all sorts of support and training in Bangladesh. In this context, the judgment of Guwahati High Court (delivered on July 25, 2008 [WP.c.No. 1094 of 2008]) is worth mentioning in which it was 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…..If this phenomenon continues, the day is not far off, when the indigenous people of Assam , both Hindus and Muslims and other religious groups, will be reduced to minorities in its own land and Bangladeshis, who are freely and merrily moving around the fertile land of Assam , will intrude upon the corridors of Power. (Para -213)……. Influx from Bangladesh is a

regular phenomenon with the resultant contributory factor behind the outbreak of insurgency in the state. The illegal migration not only affects the people of Assam but have more dangerous dimension of greatly undermining our national security, about which mention has been made in Sonowal(I) Case [Supreme Court case ] ((Para 218)……..A strong political will to free Assam from illegal Bangladeshi is the need of the hour coupled with public activism in that direction. (Para 222)” In the above mentioned context, the ABKM demands that the Assam government take steps to arrange for the safe return of the Indian citizens, who were displaced due to recent incidents, to their homes and ensure that such incidents do not recur and the perpetrators are severely punished. The ABKM wishes to caution the central and state governments that the incidents of Assam could recur in other states also if the Bangladeshi Muslim infiltration problem is not resolved. Therefore, keeping in view the gravity of the situation, the Central Government should enact a comprehensive legislation on the lines of Britain and some other countries, to detect the Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators, delete their names from the voters’ lists and deport them to Bangladesh besides penalizing those who give shelter or employment to such infiltrators.