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Over 42,000 foreigners found in Assam

Guwahati: The Assam Government informed the Assembly on Tuesday that 42,449 foreigners had been detected in the State since the signing of the Assam Accord. Of these only 2,221 were deported.

The accord was signed in 1985 by the Centre, Assam Government, the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and the erstwhile All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad (AAGSP) at the end of a six-year-long vigorous anti-foreigners agitation spearheaded by the AASU-AAGSP combine.

Assam Accord Implementation Minister Bhumidhar Barman’s reply to a written question by Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) member Ramendra Narayan Kalita, however, did not say what happened to the remaining 40,228 foreigners.

Earlier on Monday, Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain informed the House that 12,914 illegal Bangladeshi migrants had been detected till June 30 this year and the process of deporting them was on.

The Annual Administrative Report of the Implementation of the Assam Accord Department for the financial year 2006-07 tabled in the House on Monday stated that 29,539 persons had been declared as foreigners by the Foreigners’ Tribunals till May 2007 and 21,545 cases were still pending with them.

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