Good reply by Gogoi:
""But Advani simply sat on our requests and did nothing. He never came once to visit the Bangladesh border and today the same man is pointing fingers at us."
He said the Congress government took adequate steps to check infiltration with Home Minister Shivraj Patil personally visiting the Bangladesh border for an on-the-spot review of border fencing work.
Both Singh and Gandhi in their election speeches in Assam earlier this week said there cannot be any compromise on infiltration and that no mercy would be shown to anybody taking shelter here illegally.
The issue of illegal infiltration is the major election plank for both the BJP and Assam 's main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). "
Bartta Bistar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
He said the Congress government took adequate steps to check infiltration with Home Minister Shivraj Patil personally visiting the Bangladesh border for an on-the-spot review of border fencing work.
Both Singh and Gandhi in their election speeches in Assam earlier this week said there cannot be any compromise on infiltration and that no mercy would be shown to anybody taking shelter here illegally.
The issue of illegal infiltration is the major election plank for both the BJP and Assam 's main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). "
Bartta Bistar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Advani is a great hypocrite as he ignored and failed to take any steps to check infiltration when he was home minister despite our written requests to him," the chief minister told journalists here.
Gogoi was reacting to Advani's statement Friday in Ahmedabad during his Bharat Suraksha Yatra (Save India Campaign) where he accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi of being "dishonest" with regard to tackling the Bangladeshi influx into Assam.
"I can challenge Advani as we have written records where we asked the then central government to erect Punjab-type barbed wire fencing in the border areas, reducing the distance from border outposts and putting up floodlights in the borders," the chief minister said.
"But Advani simply sat on our requests and did nothing. He never came once to visit the Bangladesh border and today the same man is pointing fingers at us."
He said the Congress government took adequate steps to check infiltration with Home Minister Shivraj Patil personally visiting the Bangladesh border for an on-the-spot review of border fencing work.
Both Singh and Gandhi in their election speeches in Assam earlier this week said there cannot be any compromise on infiltration and that no mercy would be shown to anybody taking shelter here illegally.
The issue of illegal infiltration is the major election plank for both the BJP and Assam 's main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP).
The first of the two-stage elections to the 126-member assembly concluded April 3 in 65 constituencies. Voting in the remaining 61 is scheduled for Monday.
"Now the BJP is trying to shed crocodile tears and saying that infiltration from Bangladesh is assuming the role of external aggression and could lead to another partition," Gogoi said.
"I would like to tell the BJP that there would be no partition."
But senior BJP leader and former civil aviation minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said the Congress government in Assam did not cooperate with the NDA government when it came to tackling infiltration effectively.
"The Congress government did not cooperate with us and for effective checking of infiltration the central government cannot on its own take steps without the support of the state government," Hussain told IANS here.
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