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'Wrong
to say electoral rolls contain names of Bangladeshi migrants'
Saturday August 11, 2012 12:29:29 AM,
Agencies
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New Delhi:
The Centre on Thursday rejected the allegation of NGO Assam Public
Works that over 40 lakh illegal migrants from Bangladesh had got
their names entered into the electoral rolls and they should
forthwith be deported.
In an affidavit placed before a bench of justices P Sathasivam and
Ranjan Gogoi on Thursday, the Centre, however, assured the court
that it was committed to weed out illegal migrants from the state.
The apex court, while taking on record the affidavit, posted the
matter for further hearing to November 6.
“That the proposed modality suggested by the petitioner NGO to
identify and delete alleged doubtful voters; from the voter list
2006 based on religious and linguistic profiling is prima facie
illegal, arbitrary and violation of secular and democratic fabric
of India.
“That the prayer made by the petitioner cannot be allowed as it
violates the Constitution mandate,” news agency PTI quoted from
the affidavit filed by the Union Home Ministry.
“Any so called abnormal growth, in the electoral rolls does not
imply that the rolls contain the names of illegal Bangladeshi
immigrants and the contention made regarding presence of illegal
Bangladesh migrants in the electoral rolls is completely
presumptuous,” the Centre claimed.
The Centre said as a matter of policy it does not support any kind
of illegal migration either into its territory or illegal
immigration of its citizens to foreign territories.
“Curbing illegal migration into the country is a priority since it
has serious security, economic and societal ramifications,” it
said.
The government said it has been issuing instructions from time to
time to all states and Union territories on the need to detect and
deport Bangladeshi nationals found to be staying in India.
The Centre, however, said it has developed a mechanism to identify
the doubtful voters by listing their names in category “D” who are
neither allowed to vote nor stand for any elections.
“Identification of persons with doubtful Indian nationality in the
electoral rolls began with the intensive revision of electoral
rolls in 1997 -- persons who could not provide evidence in favour
of their Indian nationality at the time of verification were
marked as “D” in the electoral rolls so as to indicate their
doubtful/disputed nationality status and these cases were referred
to the competent tribunal for determination of their nationality.
“Such D voters are neither allowed to contest elections nor cast
votes during elections. The electoral rolls figures from 2005 are
accurate and authentic.
The BJP and
some other opposition parties on 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.
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