India: Fissures In Assam: Sons Of Soil Vs Bangladesh Intruders – OpEd
The persisting fissures in Assam, which periodically lead to
outbreaks of communal violence, are not between Indian Muslims and non-Muslims.
They are between Indian sons of the soil, whatever be their ethnicity, religion
or language, and Bangladeshi intruders.
The
failure of successive Governments to deal effectively with continuing illegal
immigration from Bangladesh by sealing the border, by strengthening border
controls and by identifying and throwing back the illegal immigrants is giving
rise to understandable concerns in the minds of the sons of the soil that they
are being inexorably reduced to a minority in their own homeland.
There
are even suspicions and fears of political and administrative connivance in
facilitating the illegal migration and the integration of the illegal migrants
with our own citizenry. The extent of these suspicions and concerns was evident
from the observations of a Bodo student in an NDTV debate on the night of July
28,2012. He alleged that due to inaction by successive Governments the Muslims
constitute 75 per cent of the population in certain areas.
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