Narendra Modi”s visit to Assam, newly floated political
parties Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) and Raijor Dal on Friday
alleged that the BJP has failed to fulfil its “tall promises”
made before the 2016 assembly polls.
At a press conference here, AJP president Lurinjyoti
Gogoi posed a few questions on topics such as imposition of
the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which the
ALP alleged was aimed at giving citizenship to Bangladeshis in
the state.
Raijor Dal”s working president Bhasco D Saikia said,
of the 476 promises made by the saffron party in its vision
document in 2016, only five have been fulfilled.
PM Modi will be arriving in Sivasagar district on
Saturday to launch a special programme of the state
government to distribute land ”patta” or land allotment
certificates to over one lakh landless indigenous people.
“Prior to the last elections, the prime minister had
said that all Bangladeshis in the state will have to pack
their bags and go once the BJP comes to power but now they
have laid out the red carpet for them and deprived the
indigenous Assamese of their basic political, economic,
linguistic and constitutional rights,” the AJP president said.
The BJP had also promised to fulfil the clauses of the
historic Assam Accord but it has failed to do so which is an
“immense insult” to 860 martyrs of the Assam movement, he
said.
The Assam Accord of 1985, which was signed following
the Assam agitation, had assured of detecting, deleting and
deporting illegal migrants by updating the National Register
of Citizens (NRC) with March 24, 1971 as the cut off date,
irrespective of religion.
Moreover, the committee set up for the implementation
of clause 6 of the Assam Accord had submitted its report in
February last year but the government is yet to announce any
action on that, he said.
The clause promised constitutional, legislative and
administrative safeguards to protect, preserve and promote the
cultural, social and linguistic identity and heritage of the
indigenous Assamese people.
With the intention of providing citizenship to Hindu
Bengalis, the BJP did not play a positive role in the updation
of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) which was an
effective instrument for the identification and deportation of
foreigners from the state, Gogoi, the former All Assam
Students” Union (AASU) general secretary, alleged.
The then home minister Rajnath Singh had promised that
the Indo-Bangladesh border would be completely sealed but even
now 52 km of the border remains open, the AJP president said.
The party also hit out at the PM, saying that his
government had failed to treat the annual floods of the
northeastern state as a national problem.
Meanwhile, the Raijor Dal highlighted that of the 476
promises made by the BJP in the 2016 poll vision document,
only five have been completely fulfilled and 46 partially met.
In 17 cases, totally opposite steps have been taken by
the BJP-led government in the state, Saikia said.
“Having failed to keep its promises, the BJP is now
resorting to ugly communal politics and its failure on all
fronts have now made it vengeful,” he said.
The Raijor Dal has prepared a document, researched
under the guidance of its jailed president Akhil Gogoi,
mentioning that 89.29 per cent promises made in the BJP”s 2016
vision document have not been fulfilled.
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president
Ripun Bora on Thursday had posed 24 questions to the prime
minister, including imposition of CAA, failure of the BJP to
deport Bangladeshis and protect the rights of the indigenous
communitIes.
The CAA says that members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist,
Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till December 31, 2014
facing religious persecution in those countries will not be
treated as illegal immigrants but will be given Indian
citizenship. PTI DG
MM MM
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