Even with visas, Bangladeshis do vanishing act
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 26: Detected Bangladeshis doing the vanishing act is not new in
Asom, but of late it came to light that even Bangladeshis entering Asom on the
strength of their passports and visas also do the vanishing act in the State,
thereby posing a serious security threat to the State and the country. Even
though the State Government put the number of such Bangladeshis who had entered
Asom with passports and visas but did not go back from the State even after the
expiry of the periods of their stay in the State at 500, the Centre put the
number of such Bangladeshis at 5,000.
According to sources, following an instruction from the Ministry of Home
Affairs (MHA) to the State Government to take the matter seriously, Asom Home
Commissioner and Secretary instructed all the deputy commissioners and the
superintendents of police of the State to keep a close vigil on the movement of
such Bangladeshis and ensure that they go back from Asom within the period
mentioned in their visas. According to sources, the MHA is worried over the
fact that such Bangladeshis who enter Asom through the legal course, but stay
back illegally in the State by giving the immigration and police officials the
slip, pose a more serious security threat to the State and country than those
who enter the State illegally through the border since the former are more
advanced on all fronts than the latter.
It may be mentioned here that there are as many as three entry points
Karimganj, Sutarkandi and Mankachar for legal entry of Bangladeshis into
Asom, and the immigration offices there register the names and addresses of the
people who the immigrants are supposed to visit. According to sources, there is
every possibility that the immigrants may also give false addresses at the
immigration offices so as to give the authorities here the slip. Sources
further said the border police has no sufficient manpower to follow such
immigrants.
According to sources, the Government has now risen to the occasion and
instructed even the officers-in charge of the police stations to keep track of
such immigrants in their respective jurisdiction.
Miyan Parishad to issue IDs to local Muslims
Join oust-Bdeshi drive: VHP to AUDF
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, July 26: With the issue of exodus of suspected Bangladeshis into Asom
heating up the situation in the State, the Asom-Miyan (Asomiya) Parishad today
said that it would issue identity cards to Muslims who had entered Asom before
1971 so as to avoid the harassment in the name of detection and deportation of
Bangladeshis.
Talking to newsmen in the city today, the parishad president MG Hazarika and
general secretary MM Ali said that the parishad had already started a survey in
this regard. They said that the issuance of identity cards would be based on
authentic data and documents.
Coming down heavily on the Congress-led Government in the State on the
controversy regarding the exodus of a large number of suspected Bangladeshis to
Asom from Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram, the parishad leaders said
that the State Government should ascertain the nationality of the suspected
people within a month and deport the Bangladeshis and rehabilitate the Indians.
Meanwhile, the North-east unit of the Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today appealed
to the AUDF and the Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind leaders to join the oust-Bangladeshi
drive in the North-east.
Talking to newsmen in the city today, North-east VHP president Jyotish Chandra
Pathak and spokesperson Nayan Ranjan Baruah said that the oust-Bangladeshi
drive being carried out in the region was a good sign to make the region
Bangladeshi free, and as such all Indians, regardless of their religious
identity, should take part in the drive.
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