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 ?
:-).
Its 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 Ministrys
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 persons 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 cant 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 cant 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 BJPs 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
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
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