Gogoi, ministers are B�deshi saviours: AASU

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

          Gogoi, ministers are B’deshi saviours: AASU

      By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Aug 21: The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) today came down heavily on Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and three of his ministerial colleagues — Himanta Biswa Sarma, Ripun Bora and Rockybul Hussain — and termed them as spokesmen of the Bangladeshis staying in the State.
Talking to newsmen in the city today, AASU president Sankar Prasad Rai, general secretary Tapan Kumar Gogoi and advisor Samujjal Bhattacharyya said that though they had not raised any demand for resignation of the Chief Minister and his ministerial colleagues, yet Gogoi, Sarma, Bora and Hussain should have tendered their resignation when none other than a Bangladeshi, who had entered Asom from Arunachal Pradesh recently, admitted before a magistrate that he was from Bangladesh. It may be mentioned here that Gogoi aired a public statement recently that he would quit politics if anybody could prove any person to be a Bangladeshi from among those who had entered Asom from Arunachal Pradesh. But one Jahed Ali (37), who had been handed over to the police in Sivasagar by the AASU, admitted before the magistrate there that he was from Bangladesh. The AASU leaders said that the admission by Jahed Ali before the magistrate punched holes in the Chief Minister’s claim that all those
 who had entered Asom from Arunachal Pradesh recently were Indians.
On the BJP’s stand that the Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh should be treated as refugees, but the Muslim immigrants from the neighbouring country should be sent back to Bangladesh, the AASU leaders said there should not be any categorization of Bangladeshis. “If the BJP wants to accord refugee status to Bangladeshi Hindus coming to India, let the party give them shelter in States under BJP’s rule,” the AASU leaders said.
The AASU leaders further said that Tarun Gogoi was treading the Hiteswar Saikia line on the Bangladeshi issue. “If Gogoi is sure that he came to power not with any Bangladeshi vote, what has restrained him from setting a deadline to all Bangladeshis who entered Asom after March 25, 1971 to the leave the State on their own, and act on them after the expiry of the deadline?” the AASU leaders asked, and added: “The State Government should keep the Bangladeshis entering Asom from the neighbouring States in detention camps and deport them as per the existing laws”.

       
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