[Assam] AT: ‘It’s impossible for Centre to d eport Bangladeshis’

[Chan Mahanta]

Wow--what is this?

Assam's legitimate owners can't do anything about it.

Assam's true representatives won't say anything.

What is going on?

No wonder  then Assam's intellectuals are turning 
the heat up on them 'self-appointed' lot. Urohor 
khong boga dharit xorar procesta  ?

:-).















>‘It’s impossible for Centre to deport Bangladeshis’
>From Our Spl Correspondent
>  NEW DELHI, Aug 8 – Quite oblivious to the 
>raging controversy over deportation of illegal 
>Bangladeshi migrants in the North-East, Union 
>Rural Development Minister, Raghu Prasad Singh 
>today all but gave up his hands, stressing that 
>it was impossible for the Centre to expel the 
>Bangladeshi nationals from India. The Ministry’s 
>admission came at the end of a press interaction 
>through tele-conferencing organised by his 
>Ministry with the media in Guwahati. A question 
>by media in Delhi whether jobs under National 
>Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) currently 
>under implementation in seven districts of 
>Assam, has also gone to illegal Bangladeshi 
>migrants, led the Minister to respond by saying 
>that his Ministry was helpless in such matters 
>because if a person’s name is enrolled in the 
>Voters List then it was entitled to be enrolled 
>for jobs.
>
>“The Rural Development Ministry has no mechanism 
>to detect such illegal migrants, who are 
>availing of Central Government funds,” he said.
>
>The Minister further asserted that India was a 
>big country and people were free to come and go. 
>He explained the helplessness of the Centre by 
>stressing that Bangladesh Government was not 
>willing to accept these illegal migrants as 
>their citizens. “What can we do if Bangladesh is 
>not ready to accept them,” he said.
>
>“We can’t just pick them up and dump them into the river,” he argued.
>
>“You in the media take over power and we will 
>give you five Bangladeshi for deportation. My 
>bet is that you can’t do it,” Singh said.
>
>“We have accepted over 1 lakh refugees during 
>the war and fed them regularly,” he said. 
>Dismissing the problem of illegal migration from 
>Bangladesh as BJP’s propaganda, the Minister 
>said it was ploy of the saffron party to mislead 
>the country. Riots, regionalism, casteism is 
>what the party is known to propagate, he 
>asserted.
>
>Replying to a question, the Minister did not 
>rule out the possibility of some of the Rural 
>Development funds falling into the hands of 
>ULFA. That is why the Ministry has asked the 
>States to be vigilant about fund leakages, he 
>said.
>
>Umesh Sharma
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