HUBLI: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has alleged that the Congress and its allies have overlooked national interest and taken a soft stand with regard to Bangladeshi infiltrators for the sake of protecting their vote bank.

Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Samarjeet Kaushik, Divisional Organising Secretary of the ABVP, Guwahati, Assam, said the problem of infiltration is not just the problem of Assam but a national one.

Although the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983, which in a way has helped infiltrators, has been scrapped by the Supreme Court, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government to appease the minorities by giving shelter to the infiltrators, is making efforts to bring in a law similar to the Act, he said.

Mr. Kaushik said because of the problem of infiltration Assam is suffering from unnatural population imbalance. According to a UN report based on the census of Bangladesh more than one crore citizens of Bangladesh are missing since the last 20 years, which proves the infiltration. As a result, 46 of the 126 Assembly constituencies in Assam are under the control of infiltrators, he said.

He said infiltrators are not just in Assam. They have spread all over the country and are present in lakhs of numbers in several States, which is posing a threat to security and sovereignty of the nation, Mr. Kaushik said.

Realising the seriousness of the situation, the ABVP launched the nationwide campaign against infiltration on January 23, in connection with which more than 50 persons from Assam, including ABVP members and student union leaders, are visiting over 100 places in the country to create awareness about the problem of infiltration, he said.

In view of the alarming situation, the ABVP has put forward certain demands such as making proper security arrangements on the Indo-Bangla border and action to delete the names of infiltrators from voters list.

M. Nagaraj, vice-president of the Karnataka unit of the ABVP, was present.

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