No Bangladeshis in Assam: Gogoi

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No Bangladeshis in Assam: Gogoi
BS Reporter / Kolkata/ Guwahati April 09, 2011, 0:16 IST

No Bangladeshis in Assam: Gogoi

Assam chief minister and Congress leader Tarun Gogoi on Friday hit back at Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and said all those, whom Modi had yesterday termed Bangladeshis, are in fact “Indian citizens.”

“Modi said he will free Assam from Bangladesh. I say, even if one thousand Modis come, they can’t as all these people are Indian citizens,” said Gogoi on Friday.

Modi, while campaigning for the BJP in Assam yesterday, had said the Congress was silent on illegal Bangladeshi immigration and both Congress and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), a pro-Muslim party led by Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, will transform Assam into Bangladesh soon.

Gogoi said Modi came to divide Assam on communal line.

“Advani, Modi, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj are all misleading the people. During their rule, what did they do for Assam? Why don’t they say that,” said Gogoi.

Recalling an incident, when Swaraj had refused to grant funds for development of medical colleges in Assam during the then NDA rule, Gogoi said “they all are now shedding crocodile tears for Assam.”

“When Sushma Swaraj was the health minister during the NDA government, I went to her demanding funds for our medical colleges but she didn't oblige. Now she comes and speaks a lot about developing Assam. They are all misleading the people,” said Gogoi.

Gogoi also criticised BJP Gogoi also criticised BJP for speaking of getting Assam rid of corruption as the party earlier was in alliance the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), whose leader and former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is an accused in Letter of Credit (LoC) scam.

“To find solution to all our problems, we will have to strengthen the hands of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh,” said Gogoi while speaking at an election rally in Guwahati.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

I just can not stop laughing seeing at this bharti delusional politicians... those who are ranting and discriminating against the minority for dividing community on religious line and for vote bank politics... n the thing that surprised me is that all these bigot bhartis are buying all these propaganda of illegal migrants and supporting this retard politicians... It just gives a view how hindu extremists that I saw here in pdf has become active in India.

 

[fallstuff]

The truth shall set you free !!!

 

[thebrownguy]

There is an urgent need of an MNS type revolution in Assam.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

These are one article from 2004 exposing the so called myth of illegal migrants...

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation

Minister eats his figures

ALOKE TIKKU

New Delhi, July 23: The Union home ministry has rubbished its own statistics of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam and Bengal.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi had earlier protested to Manmohan Singh about the home ministry presenting inflated figures of Bangladeshi immigrants in his state. This had prompted the Prime Minister to indicate he would have the ministry take a relook at the statistics.

Today, minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal said in a statement tabled in the Rajya Sabha that his ministry’s statistics for Assam and Bengal were unreliable and based on hearsay.


He was referring to figures he had tabled in the upper House that said Assam was home to an estimated 50 lakh illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Bengal another 57 lakh. The figures were based on estimates made by the Group of Ministers on security headed by former deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani.

Jaiswal’s “correction” of his reply to Parliament last week, however, did not question the credibility of statistics relating to other states.

Like Delhi, for instance, which has an estimated 3.75 lakh illegal Bangladeshi immigrants; Nagaland 59,500; Tripura 3.25 lakh, Meghalaya and Orissa 30,000 each, Bihar 4.79 lakh, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands 3,000.

Jaiswal’s reply had put the number of Bangladeshi immigrants in India in December 2001 at 1.2 crore.

The minister of state today suggested he had given the figures without noticing a clarificatory note from the field organisation (intelligence agencies).

He set out to trash his ministry’s figures, claiming that this “clarificatory note” made it clear that the reported figures “were not based on any comprehensive or sample study but were based on hearsay and that too from interested parties”.

 

[integra]

From the land of biggest hypocrisy. So lame and dirty minded.

 

[blackops]

how ill be bd there be in assam they dont dare to come there now some bad memories are the reason

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

This is another link putting the real number of illegal migration... but unfortunately the link is not working...

http://www.assamtribune.com/jul0704/at04.html

Assam has only 26,490 foreigners : Centre

From Our Staff Correspondent

NEW DELHI, July 6 – It’s official. The highest number of foreigners is staying in Assam but hold your breath its only 26,490 of them. That’s the official figure of number of foreigners living in Assam. Gone is the estimate that most of 1.20 crore illegal migrants were living in Assam. That was NDA’s estimate. According to the Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal there are about 46,818 foreigners reportedly living illegally in India as on December 2002. The highest number of foreigners staying illegally is in Assam followed by 11,122 in West Bengal and 2,405 living in Rajasthan. Section 3(2) © of the Foreigners Act 1946 empowers the Government of India to detect and deport foreign nationals staying in India unauthorisedly. This power has been delegated under Section 12 of the Act to the State Governments for the purpose of execution, he informed.

Meanwhile, in the Lok Sabha, Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil admitted that pace of fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh border was slower than pace of fencing work in Indo-Pakistan border. The Indo-Bangla border is longer than Indo-Pakistan and its terrain is difficult hampering fencing work. He was responding to Dr Arun Kumar Sarma during Question Hour today. Dr Sarma wanted to know whether the fencing work along the Indo-Bangladesh border was given less priority than Indo-Pakistan border fencing. He mentioned that Indo-Bangladesh border was prone to illegal infiltration, which threatens to change the demographic profile of the State.

Interestingly, the Minister of State in reply to a separate question said that some 12,283 illegal migrants from Bangladesh have been deported from Delhi during the past three years. The highest number of 3274 illegal migrants were deported this year till June. Various steps have been taken by Government to deal with the problem of illegal infiltration from Bangladesh. Additional BSF battalions have been raised, gap between two BoPs have been reduced besides accelerated construction programme of border roads and fencing have been taken up in States bordering Bangladesh, the Minister said.

Meanwhile, during a Question Hour discussion, Members charged that Border Area Development funds earmarked for Assam and Arunachal Pradesh was being diverted to Jammu and Kashmir.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

There is an urgent need of an MNS type revolution in Assam.

Yes you are right to get the extremist hindu and their goon politicians out so that they can not interfere in the internal matter of assam...n try to divide community based on religious line... just for vote bank politics... as extremist hindu group BJP is not likely to win in assam.

 

[Nirvana]

Yes you are right to get the extremist hindu and their goon politicians out so that they can not interfere in the internal matter of assam...n try to divide community based on religious line... just for vote bank politics... as extremist hindu group BJP is not likely to win in assam.

Why Are you Interfering In our Internal Matters ????

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

This is another report ... debunking the so called illegal migration myth made by Indian themselves...

Immigrants in Bombay : A Fact Finding Report.

-by Shama Dalwai and Irfan Engineer

[ Conclusions]

We can safely conclude from the above that there is hardly any
serious danger to our security from the so called Bangladeshi
infiltrators. They do not cause any serious problem for our nation as
is sought to be madeout. The threat and danger is more a product
of imagination of the protagonists of Hindutva than real. One field
visit clears any such doubts. The and squalor in which they
exists with their children amply demonstrates that they have come here only
for survival. They are more concerned about how to feed their children
and hardly have time to think about other issues.

The estimates about infiltrators is not only exaggeration but
heightof imagination. The falsity of such imagination is evident from
the factthat there have been different estimates given at
different times.[/B]Moreover there has been not much of a difference in
the growth rate of population of districts adjoining Bangladesh and the
rest of the country. Even if there are Bangladeshi immigrants, their
number is not so much that it can affect our food grain stock or compete
with our countrymen for jobs and other scarce resources.

We also found the allegations that Bangladeshi
immigrants participated in the communal riots as totally baseless. The
neighbouring Hindus were speaking quite sympathetically about them.
During the riots,the neighbouring Hindus had not felt any threat from
them and were living peacefully in their neighbourhood. Would there be
such sympathy for them amongst the Hindus staying in the neighbourhood
if they had participated in the riots?

Then why is the SS-BJP government trying to create
illusionary danger from them. The issue of Bangladeshi infiltrators was
raised by the BJP after demolition of Babri Mosque on December 6,
1992. When it was left without any issue to capture peoples
attention. The issue was exploited even for the assembly
elections in Delhi. The issue of`infiltrators' could also pay rich
dividends to enter North-East Region where the BJP has no significant
existence so far.

In Maharashtra, since the SS-BJP have come to power, they are
promising various things like Zunka Bhakar for Rs 1/-, solving
drinking water problem, bringing Dawood Ibrahim to the country for
trial, etc. The SS-BJP Government may not be able to fulfill the
promises given by them. How then could they continue to remain popular
and retain their mass base may be a serious problem they may be
facing. The duo will soon have to face Lok Sabha elections also in
1996. Shiv Sena is known to arouse passions against one section of
the population or the other. In the past, Dalits and South Indians
also have been made targets for Shiv Sena'selectoral and political
gains. Maharashtra youths were used for such attacks and one solid
vote-Bank was created. However, after its aspirations to have
political control grew beyond Bombay, and wanted to spread to all
over Maharashtra, Shiv-Sena has joined hands with BJP and has been
making the minority as its target and spreading all kinds of myths
about them. It then leads the unsuspecting mob of majority to attack the
minority and pose themselves as protectors of the interests of the
majority. Thus its hold over the majority is consolidated.
1992-93 communal riots was culmination of such politics. After the
demolition of Babri Mosque, the issue of Bangladeshi `infiltrators'
seems to be handy and an ideal anti-Muslim issue to arouse passions
of chauvinistic and false nationalism and capture power at the
Centre. In the name of infiltrators, the India Bengali Muslims and
their relatives from other states have to face tremendous harassment.

Just as there are immigrants in other countries, India also has
its share of immigrants. Due to various reasons, it is easier to cross
theborders for Bangladeshi immigrants and come to India - viz.
continuation of social and cultural ties between the people of both
the countries, porous borders, etc. Since the Bangladeshi immigrants
have been coming here unobstructed since early times and have integrated
themselves well and become as good as local, it is extremely difficult
to identify them and throw them out. A large number of Indian
citizens have to face harassment because of this and they have even
been taken right upto the border to be pushed into Bangladesh. Police
also have come to understand that in the `national interest' some
Indian Muslims may have to face harassment and even be taken to
borders for deportation. Jt. Police Commissioner of Bombay betrayed
this attitude in an interview with us. Police harass Indian Muslims
also to make them cough up some money. However, police alone cannot
be held responsible for such a careless and unrestrained behaviour.
Central Government also has to be held responsible for the way it
has been running `Operation Push-Back'. Central Government has
delegated its authority to State Government and State Government has
in turn delegated it to the police. Such action is taken under
Foreigners Act according to which, action can be taken on anybody's
complaint without any adequate primary evidence. The onus is on the
accused to prove that he is an Indian Citizen. It is necessary
to suitably amend this Act as it does not confirm to our
Constitutional norms. If the Act itself is unjust, than how can one
expect justice.

`Operation Push-Back' is being implemented in a highly
improper manner. Within 10 days, the accused is judged as foreign
national and taken to the border to be deported. As the Bangladesh
Government is not even informed about deportation, their border
security force BDR refuses to take them and therefore the people
sought to be deported are severely beaten and then left in the forest.
The fault lies with the unilateral action of the Indian Government.
Bangladeshi Government calls the entire operation as `Operation
Push-In' as according to it the Indian Government seeks to push its
citizens inside their borders. The BDR therefore threatens that it
would not hesitate even to shoot the people pushed into its territory.
And so the people, Indian Government tries to deport into Bangladesh
will therefore forced to return. In this manner, not only the problem
of Bangladeshi immigrants will not be solved but it may worsen our
relations with Bangladesh. The police are unable to fulfill its
responsibility to deport those identified by it as illegal immigrants.
Thus police atrocities become inevitable part of the whole operation
as they feel that unless they are terrorised by atrocities, they will
return. Therefore they beat men and rape women. However, inspite
of theseatrocities, they return. This is highly condemnable and
indicates that humanity is missing in the police force. This is mainly
a result of undue responsibilities thrust on the police by the
Government. As the end of20th century is coming close, such inhuman
treatment is unthinkable merely on the ground that the person concerned
is not a citizen of our country.

We therefore feel that a proper procedure should be laid down
undera suitable legislation where if anybody is accused to be a
foreignnational illegally staying in the country, then the
responsibility ofproving that the accused is not an Indian should be
on the Government asis laid down in the Indian Citizenship Act. If it
is proved (after giving reasonable opportunity to the accused to rebut
the charges on him) that the accused is not an Indian national, then
the Government of the country of his origin should be informed and
handed over. The Bangladesh Government should be persuaded to
accept the Bangladeshi immigrants. India can put adequate political
pressure if persuasion fails. It is likely that the problem will get
solved if we follow proper procedure as per international laws and
norms. If a Tribunal is appointed to identify the Bangladeshi
immigrants in Assam, why should not the same procedure beadopted for
the Bangladesh immigrants in the rest of the country. This will
ensure that bonafide citizens do not get harassed and deported and that
even those who have to be deported receive human treatment?

Assuming a situation where inspite of all this the immigrants
are not accepted by the Bangladesh Government then we can accommodate
them aswe have Nepalis and Srilankan Tamils. India has adopted a
liberalattitude towards the Nepali and Tamil immigrants from Srilanka.
Why do wenot adopt the same liberal attitude towards Bangladeshi
immigrants whohave settled here since over two decades and have been
integrated into ournation ? Ofcourse we must take precaution to prevent
further immigrationfrom our borders by fencing the borders or any other
appropriate means.

We may mention here that under the provisions of Indian
Citizenship Act, 1955, these immigrants who have been staying here
since over twodeades can be given citizenship under two provisions.
They are entitledto citizenship of the country under the provision
of naturalization.Ofcourse the state may argue that since they
immigrated illegaly in thefirst instance, this provision cannot be
applicable to them. De factonaturalization has taken place
nevertheless law and human considerationrequires de jure recognition
of the fact. However, they are also entitledto citizenship under
another provision - those who were or whose either orboth parents were
inhabitants of undivided India, can be givencitizenship.
Undoubtedly either the immigrants themselves or their parents were
citizens of undivided India and therefore they can be given
citizenship.

In the South Asia region, we already have one inimical state on
ourborder. Vested interests of the mainstream parliamentary parties have
keptthe animosity alive on both the side of the border. This
bellicosity hasalready been cause of tremendous worries to us,
including in Kashmir.With Bangladesh, we did not nurture the same
animosity, atleast since itscreation. However, any sovereign nation
will find it offensive andviolation of thekr sovereignty the manner
in which `Operation Push-Back'is being conducted unilaterally by
India. If we do not want anotherunfriendly nation on our border,
then the problem of Bangladeshi immigrants should be solved through
bilateral negotiations and as per wellaccepted international laws and
regulations.

Trying to infuse false religious chauvinism and giving it
nationalistic overtones, cannot but lead to arms race in South
Asia.Imperialist countries like America and arms industry of other
powerful countries of North have always benefited from such arms race.
Infact they are always eager to promote such belligerence and arms race.

All over the globe various trade blocks are being formed
forregional economic co-operation. South Asia also needs to form one
forboosting and promoting economic co-operation. Such a regional
co-operation should be formed with a view to reduce dependence of the
SouthAsian countries on the developed nations which exploit the needs
of theThird World countries. There is also a need to pool
resources andexpertise to solve the problems facing the peoples of the
region. If theSouth Asian countries display belligerence over such
non-issues as a fewthousand illegal immigrants from neighbouring
countries, we will miss thefruits of economic development and trade.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Why Are you Interfering In our Internal Matters ????

Because your goon extremist hindu politicians has brought bangladesh in the issue to do discrimination on the bengali muslims.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Another article on this myth of illegal migrants...

Assam: Alienating the Natives
Posted by IMO admin Featured, Indian States, Latest News 4/06/2011 09:55:00 AM

By Ram Puniyani

In the recently concluded assembly elections in Assam (March-April 2011), one of the issues which was whipped up by BJP was about the Bengali speaking people especially the Muslims of Assam. Most of the Bengali speaking Muslims are projected to be from Bangla Desh, and the communal parties and groups are using this myth to enhance their political capital, which is mostly based on spreading hate against minorities and bringing to fore the issues related to identity. In different parts of India also, the issue of Bengali Muslims has been raised too often. The Bengali speaking Muslims, Bangladeshis and also those from West Bengal, are projected to be Bangladeshis, and are presented to be threat to security. This point was raised time and over again in the acts of terror committed in recent years by the gang of Sadhvi Prgaya Singh Thakur to Aseemanand types belonging to Abhinav Bharat, Sanatan Sansthan etc. Many a time Bangladeshi groups were named in these acts of terror done by Hindutva groups and their connection with local Bangladeshis was propagated to the hilt. In Assam the issue of Bengali speaking Muslims has been brought up time and over again and this point has also been used at the time of elections to polarize the communities along religious lines.

On the contrary, many a Muslims, especially Bengali speaking one’s, irrespective of their prolonged stay in Assam, have been labeled as D voters, i.e. Doubtful voters and are not allowed to vote. The mechanism to prove that you are a bona- fide citizen lies on these hapless poor, who have been waiting for years to get this D category removed from their names. BJP has been arguing that Congress is shifting the Bangladeshis to the areas where they need to increase their voting percentage. One recalls that a massive anti Muslim pogrom was unleashed in Nellie in 1983. That time a tribe was instigated to massacre the Muslims on the ground that Bangladeshis have voted in the election and nearly 5000 Muslims were done to death. This issue of ‘Bangladeshi Muslims’ has also been electorally encashed by All Assam Students Union, which has been infiltrated and supported by RSS.

As such the issue of Bengali speaking Muslims has been very vexed and has a long history. Once the British annexed Assam in 1826, they saw this area as a potential one where the neighboring overpopulated Bengali people can be planted. They started a ‘Human Plantation program’, as per which the Bengalis, who were having land pressure and crowding in undivided Bengal, were encouraged to come to Assam and a large number of those who came to Assam were Muslims from Bengal. They worked hard to develop the land and agriculture in Assam. They were hard working and contributed massively to the development of Assam.

The issue became complicated with partition of India by the British. With partition tragedy many Hindus migrated to neighboring states. Later during the repression of East Pakistan by Pakistani army many a people fled East Pakistan and some of them did come to Assam. Most of these were Hindus. The process had other side also with the rise of communal politics in Assam, nearly 6 lakh Assamese, Muslims, also migrated to Bangla Desh.

In other parts of India also many a people from Bangla Desh migrated mainly due to economic reasons. In Mumbai and Delhi communalists raised the bogey of Bangladeshis as a security threat. Citizen’s inquiry committees, comprising of noted Human rights activists investigated the issue of Bangladeshi ‘threat’ in Mumbai in particular. One such investigation done by Shama Dalvai and Irfan Engineer pointed out that the number of Bangladeshis, which is claimed to be 3 Lakhs in Mumbai holds no water. As such it is difficult to estimate their number but rough estimate can go to 20000 of them in Mumbai. Most of these Bangladeshis are involved in painstaking Zari embroidery work and their women folk work as house maids, at atrociously low wages. Their living conditions are cramped, near gutters and in outskirts of suburbs. Most of their time is spent in making the two ends meet with great amount of difficulty.

Similar is the situation in the other metros, especially Delhi, where also the communalists have tried to use this phenomenon to their political advantage. One does observe that migrations, legal and illegal, to supposedly ‘greener pastures’ is the trend amongst the poor and those trying to climb the social ladders to higher levels. In India itself we see innumerable people from Nepal and many a Tibetans have been given asylum. We also observe that many an Indians had migrated to Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, US and UK in particular. The migration to later two countries is a dream for many. The idea behind such migrations is purely social and economic, to overcome the misery and deprivation or to latch on to upwardly mobile channel.

Tragically this issue has been used for the politics of communal divide. In Assam the British did pursue the policy of divide and rule, as in other places in Assam also they tried to put Hindus against Muslims. With the Human plantation program in 19th Century, the local Assamese were not very happy, and British encouraging Hindu camp versus Muslim camp added to the problem. Later British also tried to draw the physical ‘Line System’ trying to make people settle in separate localities according to their religion. This added to the worsening of the problem of inter religious community divide. Added on to this there is a geographical aspect adding to the problem. The mighty river Brahmaputra keeps changing its course too often. Those settled on the banks have to leave their home and hearth looking for new place for survival. Those displaced are generally amongst the poor and that adds to the issue, they are mostly labeled as Bangladeshi immigrants.

There is an urgent need to look into the communal issue in Assam. The D voter system is contributing to massive dissatisfaction amongst the people. It is also a very poor state, needing to be put on the rails of development. Such irritants created by historical circumstances and geographical compulsions are used for political gains by some. We need to bring in affirmative action to cultivate the spirit of fraternity amongst all the people of Assam; we need to counter the false propaganda about religious communalists to cultivate the sense of inclusive society all over to ensure that the path for progress and struggle for human rights is pursued relentlessly.

[Ram Puniyani is a Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Powai. Apart from his teaching and research activities, he pursues a parallel track concerned with issues related to social problems, and is a strong advocate of human rights. He can be contacted at ram.puniyani@gmail.com]

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

If these bhartis has some brain they should get the trick how these radical extremist hindu groups like BJP is trying to create religious tension to rant against the own minority muslims. But I am completely surprised these bhartis are supporting the retard and bast@red politicians like modi... I have started to believe these bhartis here in pdf are member of terrorist org like shiv sena, hindutva or BJP. If so all these should be put in the list of terror and then their game should be finished once for all.

But whatever the matter I think the above articles are enough to bust the bubble of so called illegal migration story.

 

[Al-zakir]

Good find Sami. You have exposed big mouth Bharti hundus here. This Hindus has been descriminating against Bangla speaking Muslim eventhough Assam is their homeland.
Assami Muslims should iniciate strong movement against Hindu control Delhi. They should not have live in their own country as second class citizen.