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Prime VIP
Guwahati, August 13
Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today termed the unabated illegal infiltration from Bangladesh as a threat to the national security and country’s demographic balance and held all political parties in the country for failing to realise the gravity of the threat.
Addressing a discussion on implementation of the Assam Accord, which was signed in 1985 by the Government of India with leaders of six-year-long Assam agitation as a culmination of the country’s biggest ever non-violent students-led agitation, Sushma said: “The political parties in the country have failed to agreed upon a specific way to address the problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh to the country.
“It is not a problem of only Assam but of the entire nation. The infiltration from Bangladesh has posed grave threat to the national security, balance of country’s population pattern besides putting the identity of indigenous people in Assam at stake. It is not a problem of some poor people from our neighbour migrating to India, as some important people in the helm of affairs in the country want us to believe,” the BJP leader said.
Terming the problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh as cancer on India, the BJP leader lambasted the Congress for adopting a ‘myopic and vote-bank oriented’ view of the problem.
“It is a tragedy not only for the people of Assam who launched the biggest ever non-violent mass movement in the country after the Freedom Struggle to draw the nation’s attention to the grave problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh, but also for the entire nation that our political parties have failed to arrive at a common strategy to deal with the problem in the national interest,” she said.
Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today termed the unabated illegal infiltration from Bangladesh as a threat to the national security and country’s demographic balance and held all political parties in the country for failing to realise the gravity of the threat.
Addressing a discussion on implementation of the Assam Accord, which was signed in 1985 by the Government of India with leaders of six-year-long Assam agitation as a culmination of the country’s biggest ever non-violent students-led agitation, Sushma said: “The political parties in the country have failed to agreed upon a specific way to address the problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh to the country.
“It is not a problem of only Assam but of the entire nation. The infiltration from Bangladesh has posed grave threat to the national security, balance of country’s population pattern besides putting the identity of indigenous people in Assam at stake. It is not a problem of some poor people from our neighbour migrating to India, as some important people in the helm of affairs in the country want us to believe,” the BJP leader said.
Terming the problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh as cancer on India, the BJP leader lambasted the Congress for adopting a ‘myopic and vote-bank oriented’ view of the problem.
“It is a tragedy not only for the people of Assam who launched the biggest ever non-violent mass movement in the country after the Freedom Struggle to draw the nation’s attention to the grave problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh, but also for the entire nation that our political parties have failed to arrive at a common strategy to deal with the problem in the national interest,” she said.
