13th July 2008www.allaboutassam.com
Bangladesh Hands Over Militants
Bangladesh
Rifles (BDR) handed over four militants from Assam to officials of the
Border Security Force (BSF) at the Dalu outpost in Meghalaya yesterday.
The militants handed over include M. Khorang alias Khorang Mushahary
and M Daku alias Deben Mushahary of the bodo seccessionist outfit
National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), truck driver Parameshwar
Chouhan and Sanjay Das of the United Achik National Front (UANF). The
NDFB militants and the driver were arrested by the Bangladesh police in
2005 for illegal residency. The BSF later ceremonially handed over the
militants to the Meghalaya police who then handed them to the Assam
police authorities as the four had cases pending against them in Assam.
The Bangladesh Rifles will be handing over 12 militants as per an
agreement between the India and Bangladesh governments earlier this
year. The list also includes the name of ULFA general secretary Anup
Chetia but his handing over would take some time because of legal
formalities in a Dhaka jail.
AGP MPs Slam Govt. On Foreigner Issue
AGP MPs Biren Baishya, Sarbananda Sonowal and Kumar Deepak Das today
slammed the Congress Government both at the Centre and the State for
indulging in vote bank politics. Addressing a press conference at New
Delhi yesterday to mark the third anniversary of the repeal of the the
Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) Act, the MPs accused the
Congress governments at the centre and in Assam of disregarding the
Supreme Court's verdict on detection and deportation of illegal
migrants and that they were looking at the option of moving the apex
court for non-implementation of its orders.
The process of identification of foreigners has not started and the
tribunals set up are yet to function. The National Register of Citizens
(NRC) has not yet been updated and the Union Home Ministry has failed
to keep its own deadline of sealing the Indo-Bangladesh border by
December 2006. This was stated by Mr. Sonowal, who was the main
petitioner, on whose plea the IM(DT) Act was scrapped by the Supreme
Court in July 2005.
5 Crore Ransom Demand For Release of Abducted Trio
The
All Kamatapur Liberation Front (AKLF), a nascent militant outfit formed
for the creation of a so called Kamatapur state has demanded Rs. 5
crores as ransom for the release of three persons associated with the
Gayatri ECI company. An engineer and a contractor of the company were
abducted by suspected AKLF militants more than ten days ago and another
employee was abducted a few days later. Company officials said that the
abductors have demanded that an advance of Rs. 1 crore was to be handed
over within 5 days and the rest at a time and place to be stipulated
later. Gayatri company is engaged in four laning of the national
highway under the East West Corridor Project at the Srirampur
(Kochuagaon)-Bongaigaon (Rakhaldubi) section.
AASU Launches Stir
The
All Assam Students Union yesterday started a fresh agitation to drive
out foreigners on the third anniversary of the scrapping of the IM (DT)
Act. The ‘Sangram Dhwani’ programme was launched centrally at the
Latasil ground in Gauhati with the beating of traditional musical
instruments like drums, khols, negaras, bortal, kalia, etc. for ten
minutes, a symbolic call to “organize people against the danger ahead
in the form of Bangladeshis.”
AASU advisor Samujjal Kr
Bhattacharya addressing a gathering at the Latasil playground said that
the government cannot turn its back to this apparent threat to the very
existence of Assamese community neither it can deny the fact that the
fundamentalists and jehadi groups like Al-qaida and ISI are operating
from Assam. He lambasted the government for failure to detect and
deport illegal immigrants even three years after the IM(DT) Act was
scrapped. He also criticized former AASU president and leader of the
anti foreigner agitation Prafulla Mahanta of betraying the cause after
becoming the Chief Minister.
Dharna by Jyoti Chitraban Employees
Several film producers, directors, actors and other artistes of the
Assamese film industry joined the employees of Jyoti Chitraban Film
Society at a sit-in demonstration in front of the studio at Kahilipara
demanding regularisation of salaries and recruitment of a permanent
secretary for the film society.
The Jyoti Chitraban Employees’
Union also demanded that the government should ensure a proper working
atmosphere for local producers and directors in the studio. The union
warned that if early and adequate measures are not initiated to resolve
the problems of the studio and its employees, then the agitation would
be intensified.
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