White Paper on Assam Accord implementation next month: Congress
Thursday September 20, 2012 08:25:32 PM,
IANS
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Guwahati: The Congress
government in Assam Thursday decided to publish a white paper Oct
7 on the steps taken by it to implement the 1985 Assam Accord.
The decision was taken during a meeting of party legislators and
senior leaders, held at Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's residence at
Koinadhara Hills here.
Party leaders, present at the meeting, said it was also decided
that the Congress will put in efforts to build public opinion
across the state about the steps taken by it to implement the
historic Accord in the past 11 years.
"The white paper will clear all the points which have been raised
by several sections - the steps taken by the government to stop
infiltration from the neighbouring country (Bangladesh), sealing
of the India-Bangladesh border, detection and deportation of
Bangladeshis and other related issues," said a senior party
leader.
He said that the party has also appealed the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)
to publish a white paper on the steps taken by it in implementing
the accord during its ten years of rule in Assam.
The Assam government was under pressure from several quarters over
the issue of alleged non-implementation of the historic Accord,
which marked the ending of six-year long Assam movement.
Although the Accord suggested sealing of India-Bangladesh border
and detection and deportation of illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators,
a large portion of the international border is still porous.
Similarly, there has also been allegation that not much has been
done by the subsequent state governments since last 27 years to
detect and deport the illegal foreigners, mainly Bangladeshi
nationals from the state.
The issue of Bangladeshi infiltration has been in the news
headlines in Assam since last month - particularly after the clash
between the Bodos and Bengali speaking Muslim settlers in Assam's
three districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri, which left 97
people dead and rendered over four lakh people homeless.
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