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Centre, State keeping alive Assam foreigners issue: Left

Guwahati: The Left parties have accused both the Central and State governments of keeping the foreigners’ problem alive and not finding a permanent solution even 23 years after the signing of the Assam Accord.

The Assam units of the Communist Party of India(Marxist), the CPI, the Revolutionary Socialist Party and the CPI(Marxist-Leninist) expressed concern that both Hindu communal forces and Muslim fundamentalist forces became active in Assam, taking advantage of the foreigners’ issue, and were trying to divide people.

In a joint statement, the parties held the Central and State governments responsible for the deterioration of law and order following clashes in the northern districts of Udalguri, Darrang and Sonitpur and tension in the entire State over infiltration.

“All the parties and organisations reached consensus that all those who entered Assam after March 25, 1971 and are staying illegally should be detected and deported, the border should be sealed and the National Register of Citizens of 1951 should be updated by taking 1971 as the base year. However, till today the government has kept alive the problem instead of solving it.”

For this situation, “like the successive Congress governments, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, which was in power for six consecutive years at the Centre, was equally responsible,” the statement said.

The Left accused the government of not complying with the directive issued by the Supreme Court, while scrapping the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals), for increasing the number of tribunals and expediting detection and deportation of foreigners.

The Left also noted with concern that some forces had taken the law in their own hands in the name of detecting suspected Bangladeshis.

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