Drive to evict Bangladeshis from India

[Banglar Bir]

Drive to evict Bangladeshis from India
Sutirtha Gupta, Kolkata, October 23, 2017

All Assam Student Union (AASU) says the move to drive out Bangladeshis cannot be relaxed.
A few thousand Bangladeshis every year are being sent back from the border with India. They cross the border into India in search of work, to earn a living.
They are caught and sent back, only to return after some time, with the help of agents.

This time round, however, at least two states of India have taken up the issue seriously and have stepped up the drive to evict Bangladeshis.
These states are Assam and Uttar Pradesh, both under the BJP government. In Assam, the BJP government plans to drive out about three million Bangladeshis.

This ‘foreigner’ issue is causing unrest in the state.
Before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, in his West Bengal election campaign Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said, “Refugees are my children. They will stay here. It is the trespassers that will have to leave.”

According to the Indian home minister, there are 20 million Bangladeshis illegally staying in India. Union State Home Minister Kiren Rijiju last November said that driving out the illegal foreigners from India is a continuous process. He said it is the responsibility of the state governments to identify these foreigners, catch them and send them away. The state governments have the authority to do so.

In November 2016, Rijiju said in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, “There are reports of Bangladeshi nationals having entered the country without valid travel documents. Since entry of such Bangladeshi nationals into the country is clandestine and surreptitious, it is not possible to have accurate data of such Bangladeshi nationals living in the various parts of the country.
As per available inputs, there are around 20 million (2 crore) illegal Bangladeshi migrants staying in India.”

Rijiju did not dwell on a definite strategy of the government to identify and deport the 20 million illegal Bangladeshi migrants. “Deportation of illegally staying foreign nationals is continuous process.
The powers of identification, detention and deportation of illegal foreign nationals including Bangladeshi nationals have been delegated to the state governments and Union territories under Section 3(2)(c) of the Foreigners Act, 1946,” he stated.

Politics is heating up in Assam over the issue of evicting Bangladeshis. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s former student organization, All Assam Student Union (AASU) says the move to drive out Bangladeshis cannot be relaxed. Anyone failing to prove their nationality, whether Hindu or Muslim, will be driven out of the state.
AASU is known to be strongly anti-Bengali. In the past too they have been determined to drive out foreigners.

In India, Assam is the only state with a National Registrar of Citizenship (NRC). NRC coordinator Pratik Hajela recently submitted a draft list to the Supreme Court which stated that about three million residents of Assam were there illegally. However, he didn’t elaborate on what basis he came to this conclusion nor did he define citizenship.

Hajela spoke about original inhabitants (OI) in Supreme Court, but did not explain who they were. Yet according to the Assam agreement, those living in Assam before 15 March 1975 are all permanent residents of the state.

In the meantime, the Supreme Court has ordered that the NRC list has to be published within 31 December. Since the issuance of this order, the hardliner anti-Bengali AASU is once again vocal in its demand to evict foreigners.

Assam’s language and religious minorities feel that BJP is instigating AASU to take such a stand. Congress fears that if this ‘foreigner’ stigma is attached to three million persons, the state will erupt in unrest again.

Former chief minister and veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi placed a counter question to the journalists, where will those who fail to prove their citizenship go? No one even has the proof that those who cannot prove their nationality due to their poverty, or other reasons, are actually Bangladeshi as often alleged to be.
So Bangladesh in no way will accept them. Gogoi says that many poor people have no shelter. Many of them lose all their belongings in the floods every year. Many can’t afford the legal fees to prove themselves Indian citizens. If initiative is taken to force them out as foreigners, violence will break out in the state.

Human rights activists say that the condition of Bengalis in Assam is worse than the Rohingyas. They say in Bangladesh or Pakistan, the minority can protest.
Here they cannot even cry.

Official accounts say there are around 800 thousand Bangladeshis in Uttar Pradesh. The police supers of all the districts have been asked to identify and list the Bangladeshis, after which the drive to evict them will commence from the middle of next year.

Opposition political parties fear that the move to drive out Bangladesh will result in harassment of Bangla language speakers.
https://southasianmonitor.com/2017/10/23/drive-evict-bangladeshis-india/

 

[Paranoid Android]

Illegal Bangladeshis.

 

[Suriya]

They must be identified first and as soon as possible so that they don't voter ID , Aadhars , pan card etc

 

[Banglar Bir]

Definitely,first produce concrete documentary evidence that the "so called Bangla speaking' people are Bangladeshi nationals.No barking, false propaganda will be entertained.
Moreover,no Hindus shall will be accepted.
Be mentally prepared to accept all the 15 lacks illegal Indian nationals hiding in Bangladesh.
The Two Nation theory,be materialized at an earliest, and finally prevail. Peace & tranquility at the end.

 

[bdslph]

it should be 2 ways all indians from this side and all bangladeshi from that side but all must be have documents legal proves

but the funny part is they are saying 20 millions live in india
hahaha

 

[Papa Dragon]

and those Rohingyas too

 

[Banglar Bir]

Trouble brewing in northeast India over ‘illegal Bangladeshis’
Ashis Biswas
Published at 01:42 PM October 24, 2017

File photo: Some political parties and vested interest are apparently keen to revive agitation against ‘illegal Bangladeshis' in the region |AFP
In Assam, the ruling BJP is divided on the thorny illegal immigration issue
Northeast Indian states, some of which share international border with Bangladesh, may see another spell of ethnic violence, targeting ‘foreign nationals’ or ‘illegal Bangladeshis’ as they are commonly referred to.

Some political parties and vested interest are apparently keen to revive the agitation against ‘illegal immigrants and foreigners’ (read Bangladeshis) in the region beginning with Assam, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

In Assam, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a house divided on the thorny illegal immigration issue. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is among those who favour a hard line against alleged Bangladeshi settlers.

As an active participant in the anti-foreigner agitations in the past, some of them very violent, he has lent his support to a recent administrative drive to re-examine most citizenship and related documents by people suspected of being illegal immigrants.

It has already caused much harassment to mainly Bengali-speaking Hindus and Muslims. Thousands have been submitting and re-submitting such documents to local police and other authorities over the last couple of decades.

Their plight has been reported in some sections of the Assam-based media while local civil rights groups have helped them seek legal remedies.

Hard line BJP elements apparently derive their strength from announcements made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi prior to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. “When the BJP comes to power in Delhi, illegal immigrants should start packing their bags and leave the country,” he had said.

This pre-poll promise, like some others made by BJP and Modi, was never fulfilled.

In Assam, even as BJP leaders resume their efforts to detect people without proof of Indian citizenship, the central leaders of the party have indicated that their old policy regarding immigration remains very much in place: only displaced Bangladeshi Hindus will get refugee status.

Large section of people in Assam naturally feel restive with the centre virtually enforcing the possession of the Aadhar card and other documents as mandatory requirements for getting jobs and official relief, among others, often overriding directives from the Supreme Court.

As things stand, it is not as though anyone without valid evident of citizenship papers in Assam are all illegal immigrants.

In The flood-prone nature of the Assamiya rural landscape, along with poor infrastructure and economic backwardness, many people and tribals, including all major communities, have long been used to living without such documentation for decades.

It is only of late that the situation has started to change, making things difficult for some.

While Nagaland and Mizoram also target mainly poor Muslims regarded as ‘illegal Bangladeshi immigrants’, some organisations in Mizoram have given a call to revive their agitations on the issue.

Recently Arunachal Pradesh authorities and political parties objected to central government allowing citizen status to a number of Chakma and Hajong tribals. They have been living in special camps ever since they escaped from Chittagong Hill Tracts because of, what they claimed, ‘repeated outbreaks of ethnic violence’.

The state is divided on the question of a fresh proposal from Delhi to settle a few hundred Tibetans displaced from China in Arunachal Pradesh. But the move could spell diplomatic problems in future as China regards Arunachal as part of the old autonomous Tibet region.

While Chief Minister Pema Khandu is in favour of the idea and has got his Cabinet to approve of it, opposition parties have asked whether the interests of the local native population would be compromised.

Analysts in Kolkata and Delhi fear that the worst case scenario could be yet another flare-up of mob violence and partisan official drives against certain communities or groups in parts of the sensitive northeast region.

This will certainly result in loss of lives and property and could complicate otherwise smooth bilateral relations with Bangladesh.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/s...brewing-northeast-india-illegal-bangladeshis/

 

[RowdyRathore]

Why our government isn't stopping daily infiltration across borders in assam & WB.
I'd solve half of the problem atleast.

 

[Bilal9]

OK- Indians get this through your respective heads.

THERE ARE VERY LITTLE (IF ANY) BANGLADESHIS IN INDIA.

YOU CAN NEVER DRIVE OUT YOUR OWN MUSLIM CITIZENS. SO STOP TRYING.

ANY SUCH ATTEMPT WILL NOT ONLY RESULT IN COMMUNAL RIOTS EVERYWHERE (ESPECIALLY IN MUSLIM ENCLAVES OF INDIA).

You cannot do a 'Rohingya II' in India. Muslims in India are much larger in number and cannot be defeated or displaced no matter which Indian govt. comes to power.

Idiots.

Man these are some fuggly people they hired. Where do they find these ? Creatures from the dark lagoon...

 

[Cherokee]

We will have to accept lungis. Their country is gonna drown in a few decades due to global warning and east asia would shoot ;em every time they try to jump the fence.

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

Trouble brewing in northeast India over ‘illegal Bangladeshis’
Ashis Biswas
Published at 01:42 PM October 24, 2017

File photo: Some political parties and vested interest are apparently keen to revive agitation against ‘illegal Bangladeshis' in the region |AFP
In Assam, the ruling BJP is divided on the thorny illegal immigration issue
Northeast Indian states, some of which share international border with Bangladesh, may see another spell of ethnic violence, targeting ‘foreign nationals’ or ‘illegal Bangladeshis’ as they are commonly referred to.

Some political parties and vested interest are apparently keen to revive the agitation against ‘illegal immigrants and foreigners’ (read Bangladeshis) in the region beginning with Assam, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

In Assam, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a house divided on the thorny illegal immigration issue. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is among those who favour a hard line against alleged Bangladeshi settlers.

As an active participant in the anti-foreigner agitations in the past, some of them very violent, he has lent his support to a recent administrative drive to re-examine most citizenship and related documents by people suspected of being illegal immigrants.

It has already caused much harassment to mainly Bengali-speaking Hindus and Muslims. Thousands have been submitting and re-submitting such documents to local police and other authorities over the last couple of decades.

Their plight has been reported in some sections of the Assam-based media while local civil rights groups have helped them seek legal remedies.

Hard line BJP elements apparently derive their strength from announcements made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi prior to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. “When the BJP comes to power in Delhi, illegal immigrants should start packing their bags and leave the country,” he had said.

This pre-poll promise, like some others made by BJP and Modi, was never fulfilled.

In Assam, even as BJP leaders resume their efforts to detect people without proof of Indian citizenship, the central leaders of the party have indicated that their old policy regarding immigration remains very much in place: only displaced Bangladeshi Hindus will get refugee status.

Large section of people in Assam naturally feel restive with the centre virtually enforcing the possession of the Aadhar card and other documents as mandatory requirements for getting jobs and official relief, among others, often overriding directives from the Supreme Court.

As things stand, it is not as though anyone without valid evident of citizenship papers in Assam are all illegal immigrants.

In The flood-prone nature of the Assamiya rural landscape, along with poor infrastructure and economic backwardness, many people and tribals, including all major communities, have long been used to living without such documentation for decades.

It is only of late that the situation has started to change, making things difficult for some.

While Nagaland and Mizoram also target mainly poor Muslims regarded as ‘illegal Bangladeshi immigrants’, some organisations in Mizoram have given a call to revive their agitations on the issue.

Recently Arunachal Pradesh authorities and political parties objected to central government allowing citizen status to a number of Chakma and Hajong tribals. They have been living in special camps ever since they escaped from Chittagong Hill Tracts because of, what they claimed, ‘repeated outbreaks of ethnic violence’.

The state is divided on the question of a fresh proposal from Delhi to settle a few hundred Tibetans displaced from China in Arunachal Pradesh. But the move could spell diplomatic problems in future as China regards Arunachal as part of the old autonomous Tibet region.

While Chief Minister Pema Khandu is in favour of the idea and has got his Cabinet to approve of it, opposition parties have asked whether the interests of the local native population would be compromised.

Analysts in Kolkata and Delhi fear that the worst case scenario could be yet another flare-up of mob violence and partisan official drives against certain communities or groups in parts of the sensitive northeast region.

This will certainly result in loss of lives and property and could complicate otherwise smooth bilateral relations with Bangladesh.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/s...brewing-northeast-india-illegal-bangladeshis/

They got nice looking Mongoloid womens in India...

 

[Homo Sapiens]

They got nice looking Mongoloid womens in India...

These dalit tribal can jump as much as they like.But the truth is, Bangladesh will not accept anyone without scrutinizing so called 'Bangladeshi' individual case by case basis.There is already a mechanism between India and Bangladesh for deportation of illegal migrants.Under that mechanism, Bangladeshi authority verify individual cases then accept it's national.By this way India deported 1750 Bangladeshi in the last 3 years.

250 Pakistani nationals, 1,750 Bangladeshis deported from India in last 3 years
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...ast-3-years/story-Ja2VfyWDD5wPhhSGZcfRrL.html


We have no problem to accept any Bangladeshi who has gone to other countries after 1971.I am confident that, India will not be able to find genuine illegal migrant of the Bangladeshi origin of more than a couple of hundred thousand people maximum.We will accept those few lakhs and deport similar number of illegal Indian residing in Bangladesh.It's a fair deal.

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

These dalit tribal can jump as much as they like.But the truth is, Bangladesh will not accept anyone without scrutinizing so called 'Bangladeshi' individual case by case basis.There is already a mechanism between India and Bangladesh for deportation of illegal migrants.Under that mechanism, Bangladeshi authority verify individual cases then accept it's national.By this way India deported 1750 Bangladeshi in the last 3 years.

250 Pakistani nationals, 1,750 Bangladeshis deported from India in last 3 years
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...ast-3-years/story-Ja2VfyWDD5wPhhSGZcfRrL.html


We have no problem to accept any Bangladeshi who has gone to other countries after 1971.I am confident that, India will not be able to find genuine illegal migrant of the Bangladeshi origin of more than a couple of hundred thousand people maximum.We will accept those few lakhs and deport similar number of illegal Indian residing in Bangladesh.It's a fair deal.

India is a land of milk and honey with great looking women habibis. Every Bangladeshi dreams to immigrate to India.

 

[Chhatrapati]

THERE ARE VERY LITTLE

There is a saying 'A drop of poison is enough to pollute an entire lake'.

Illegals are practically ghosts. They have no identity cards, even if they have, it'll be fake. If they commit any crime, identification becomes very difficult.

ANY SUCH ATTEMPT WILL NOT ONLY RESULT IN COMMUNAL RIOTS EVERYWHERE

I'm all up for deporting illegal Bangla's. And trust me, no-one from my enclave will feel sorry for them.

Man these are some fuggly people they hired. Where do they find these ? Creatures from the dark lagoon...

Are you suggesting Banglas are vikings?

 

[gslv mk3]

THERE ARE VERY LITTLE (IF ANY) BANGLADESHIS IN INDIA.

YOU CAN NEVER DRIVE OUT YOUR OWN MUSLIM CITIZENS. SO STOP TRYING.

Yeah sure....UN must be lying, right ?

thanks @Nilgiri

"the huge flow of Bangladeshis to India, which the UN declared to be “the single largest bilateral stock of international migrants” in the developing world. "

The report:

http://www.un.org/en/ga/68/meetings/migration/pdf/International Migration 2013_Migrants by origin and destination.pdf

Man these are some fuggly people they hired.

As opposed to these swamp creatures...