Badruddin Ajmal responsible for mass exodus, alleges AASU
The influential All Assam Students Union today held prominent minority leader and president of the All India United Democratic Front Badaruddin Ajmal responsible for the mass exodus and fear psychosis among students and persons of the Northeast.
"There is a fear psychosis among students in the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra as a direct result of the communal politics played by Ajmal," AASU advisor Samujjal Bhattacharjee alleged in a press conference here.
The student body warned Ajmal "not to give communal colour to the violence in Assam" and appealed to the students not to panic and refrain from rushing back.
The former student leader said he had personally talked to the Karnataka Chief Minister and Home Minister who have assured all security.
He said at least three overcrowded trains would be reaching here from Bangalore tomorrow and that thousands of panic-stricken people were stranded in various stations of those states including Secunderabad.
The former student leader claimed that a person from Kokrajhar who had gone to Andhra Pradesh to help two other persons who were injured was thrown out of a running train near Palasa and killed.
"Sanjib Roy of Kokrajhar was mercilessly thrown out of a running train near the Palasa railway station in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district on August 14 as he was escorting two of his friends," he alleged.
Bhattacharjee said his body was still lying at the Sompeta government hospital and demanded that the Centre and state governments take measures to get it back to the state.
Squarely blaming Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for "failing to control the violence in the state and elsewhere", Bhattacharjee alleged that as the head of the state "his policies have failed to protect lives and property of people".
Demanding that post-1971 migrants from Bangladesh leave Assam as per the provisions of the Assam accord, he said no person suspected to be an illegal immigrant should be rehabilitated.
Mumbai violence was pre-planned: Intelligence sources
According to a senior source, dealing with internal security in the Union government, the Mumbai [ Images ] violence on August 11 was pre-planned.
According to the source, "There is a background to it. The Islamic Ummah (fraternity) all over the world is deeply disturbed by what's happening in Syria and Lebanon. They are trying to provoke Muslims in and around our region."
Two people died at Mumbai's Azad Maidan during the protests over the violence in Assam and Myanmar.
It turned violent as the small section of crowd, who had lathis and arms, attacked policemen and media and set on fire police and other vehicles.
They were demanding more governmental and media attention to the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar and Assam. This has surprised many security experts who think that the issue of Muslims in Assam and their ethnic clashes with the Bodos can't be equated with the plight of Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar.
The intelligence community at the top level has come to conclusion that not just in Mumbai, conspirators are trying to highlight the troubles of Muslims in Assam and Myanmar on the streets. They want to create trouble simultaneously in Uttar Pradesh [ Images ] and other states.
The senior source claimed that Maharashtra [ Images ] government was alerted well in advance about some groups who would like to create tension in society.
The source, speaking off the record, said the Indian government's policy in Myanmar is very clear. The Muslims there are facing persecution since the early 1980s. Many of them have migrated to Bangladesh and are living in camps. But since the last few years Bangladesh is not allowing their entry.
This has created tremendous pressure in the north-east region where the Rohingyas from Myanmar want to infiltrate. The government of India [ Images ] cannot be party to the tussle between Bangladesh and Myanmar when the north-east is reeling under ethnic sensitivities for different reasons.
The high level source explained to rediff.com that Indian secular leaders (who want the government to speak on the internal issue of Myanmar) and Muslim community leaders should understand the genesis of the Rohingya Muslims issue. Bangladesh, a Muslim majority country, has lately, changed its humanitarian, pro-liberal policy towards Rohngiya Muslims. That is the crux of the current tension for the Rohingyas, who are under pressure from Buddhist radicals inside Myanmar.
Since the doors of Bangladesh have been closed, the Rohingyas want to take refuge in India.