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Fence entire Bangladesh border: BJP
Wednesday August 08, 2012 06:34:24 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The BJP and
some other opposition parties Wednesday demanded immediate steps
to complete fencing on India's border with Bangladesh to check
illegal infiltration.
Taking part in a discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the ethnic
violence in Assam, Bharatiya Janata Party's Balbir Punj said that
about 50 km of the Indian border with Bangladesh had been
"deliberately kept unfenced".
Punj said that illegal migration into Assam over the years had
created a sense of insecurity among Assamese people.
He said the Assam Accord of 1985 had entailed identification of
illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, creation of a national citizen
register and fencing of the border. He accused the Congress of not
taking enough steps to implement these.
Punj said demographic changes had taken place in several districts
of Assam due to infiltration of Bangladeshi Muslims, who were now
registering a much faster growth than Hindus in the state.
He sought immediate steps to complete border fencing with
Bangladesh and said that illegal immigrants should be declared
"stateless people" and barred from voting and owning property.
Congress member Bhubaneswar Kalita said the house should give a
message to "unite" the people of state. He accused the BJP of
trying to divert the issue. "You want to give colour to (it)."
The MP said the Congress cannot be faulted for lapses in
implementing the Assam Accord and wanted to know how many were
identified as foreigners during the Assam Gana Parshad (AGP) rule.
Jharna Das Baidya of CPI-M asked the Assam government to take
concrete steps to address pending problems.
Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Shivanand Tiwari said infiltration
was taking place in the state. "Fencing is a must," he said.
AGP's Birendra Prasad Baishya said Assam was "burning" and there
was a need to "save" the state.
Referring to the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) Act,
he said Assam had a different law from other parts of the country
to identify foreigners. "The main problem is the Bangladesh border
(is) open."
He said his party was not against Muslims but "against illegal
migrants".
Biswajit Daimary of Bodoland People's Front said that priority
should be given to complete fencing along the Bangladesh border.
Ethnic violence in Assam last month left 73 people dead and
displaced tens of thousands.
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