North East Made the Genocide ritual Performance Ground to set New Power Politics Equation. Magnificent Mary`s Bronze is paid Back with conspiracy against the Mongoloid People Segregated, now obliged for Exodus from the Mainland while the RSS Bangladeshi Bogey targets the Minorities as well as Refugees countrywide. The Secular and Democratic Forces Caught Napping!If the problem is not addressed at all, the country itself would transform into a country of refugees, victims of communal violence!
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North East Made the Genocide ritual Performance Ground to set New Power Politics Equation. Magnificent Mary`s Bronze is paid Back with conspiracy against the Mongoloid People Segregated, now obliged for Exodus from the Mainland while the RSS Bangladeshi Bogey targets the Minorities as well as Refugees countrywide. The Secular and Democratic Forces Caught Napping!Ironically, the celebration of 65th Independence Day has triggered unprecedented exodus of North East People nationwide on the one hand, aggressive communalisation with reactivated ULFA and escalation of violence in Assam on the other hand.Ethnic violence that has rocked parts of lower Assam today spread to a new district where incidents of arson were reported, forcing the Army to stage a flag march.A group of people torched several vehicles at Rangiya area in Kamrup (Rural) district, which had not been affected earlier in the violence between tribal Bodos and members of the minority that claimed 77 lives so far in Kokrajhar, Chirang, Dhubri and Baksa districts.I have been writing that Assam Riots is a part of the game of economic ethnic cleansing of the Excluded Communities ie SC, ST, OBC and Minorities, the Ninety Percent of Indian Population and the riots have to be continued and even escalated as the game Goes on!The Sangh Pariwar has managed to get signed Assam Accord, Citizenship Amendment Act passed and Unique Identity Project launched, the Hindu rashtra campaign has succeeded to segregate mongoloid people, tribals,minorities as well as Bengali refugees to sustain Manusmriti rule.The intensified hatred campaign is the part of election strategy would prove more dangerous than the Gujarat Hindutva experiment, mind you. This time , the communal flare up is not limited within either Gujarat or Assam only, it is spreading faster than Mars Curiosity. But secular and democratic foces with its inherent caste hindu bias fail to corelate refugee problem, demographic readjustment, land reforms, fifth and sixth schedule, citizenship amnedment act, forest law, UID and the corporate economy. The problem is either politically or communally siplified and is never addressed to its complex dimensions. I had been warning that the Assam Violence would flare up and inflict the Nation sooner or later. But I could not imagine that it should happen so soon. Relief to refugees is the urgency of the time, but if the problem is not addressed at all and RSS and sangh pariwar is allowed to accomplish its agenda without any resistance whatsoever with the support from entire ruling hegemony and its institutions,you would not be able to reach every refugee as the country itself would transform into a country of refugees, victims of communal violence!Mind you, Free market Economy living on Genocide Economics always does invoke unprecedented violence!
Sangh Pariwar agenda is very clear right from sixties as it is recently been recorded in Parliamentary minutes.Heated exchange of words between ruling Congress party and opposition members were witnessed in the Rajya Sabha when it took up a discussion on Assam violence.Balbir Punj, from BJP, who initiated the discussion, demanded that infiltrators from Bangladesh should be declared "stateless persons, disfranchised and debarred from owning properties in the state", a remark which drew sharp criticism from the treasury benches.
"They should be identified first, and then declared stateless persons, who have no right to vote. Those who have already been enrolled as voters should be disfranchised. They should have no right to own property or right to admission in any school or college," he said.
Punj said he was "very disappointed with the statement of the home minister, who described it as a law and order problem.
Panic triggered by wild rumours of impending violence sparked a heavy exodus of people of North-Eastern origin living in Bangalore, to their home states, on Wednesday.Mind you, it is happening systematically in Karnataka, rule by Sangh Pariwar invoking communal polraisation deep in the heart and mind of the nation. On the other hand, the Sangh Pariwar launched an unprecedented deportation drive against resettled Bengali refugees countrywide. Bengalies staying out of Bengal are identified as Bangladeshi just because they speak Bengali.It is coincidental that the Presidential speech on the eve of independence day justified the Bangladeshi bogey with the call to implement controversial Assam agreement. Further, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his speech from the Red Fort helped to flare up Assam violence invoking Ahomia nationality movement it aworsened the demographic disquiet in the turmoiled volatile state with reactivated ULFA once again.
Meanwhile,Fresh incidents of violence have been reported from Assam's Kamrup (Rural) and Baksa districts. Arson and stone pelting took place in Kamrup district on Thursday morning with some violent incidents took place in Baksa district late on Wednesday night, the day India celebrated its 66th Independence Day.While there have been no reports of casualties, a car, a bus and a wooden bridge have been damaged in Baksa. Baksa is situated in lower Assam and comes under Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD).A car was set ablaze at Gandhibari in Baksa district on Wednesday night. The car was returning from Baksa to Rangiya in neighbouring Kamrup (Rural) district.After the news reached Rangiya, angry local residents blocked NH-31 at Udiana Chowk under Rangiya police station since early this morning to protest against the incident, sources said today.During the blockade, some people set ablaze a bus going towards Guwahati at Bhatkuchi and a wooden bridge at Kekahati, both under Rangiya police station.Police fired in the air to disperse the protestors who scattered for some time only to return again and tension prevails in the area, the sources said.Senior police and civil officials have rushed to the spot, sources added.The state has witnessed communal violence for a last few weeks in Baksa, Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts in which over 70 people have been killed and several hundreds.
Making a strong pitch to start the healing process in violence-hit Assam, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday underlined the need to revisit the historic Assam accord and adapt it to present conditions "in the spirit of justice and national interest."
Lack of political consensus had hurt India's economic growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in an Independence Day speech that was focused essentially on domestic concerns.What about Assam? Ironically, the Prime Minister is a representative from Assam in Rajya Sabha.for, him , the topmost priority is Corporate India and Free Foreign investment flow. North east never comes in his agenda.However,celebrating India's 66th Independence Day anniversary, on Wednesday Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised a host of things and discussed common issues and talked of resolving some major problems in India.
Ethnic violence in Assam, which claimed over 70 lives, is "very unfortunate", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday.
In his independence day speech, the prime minister said the clashes between Bodo tribals and Bengali-speaking Muslims had disrupted lives of a large number of people last month.The Prime Minister , thus, supported the RSS stance on Assam Violence.
Expressing sympathy with the victims and their families, Manmohan Singh said authorities were doing everything possible to provide relief to everyone.
"Our government will make every efforts to understand the reasons behind the violence and work hard with the state governments to ensure that such incidents are not repeated in any part of the country," he said.
Manmohan Singh has been elected from Assam to the Rajya Sabha.
"Concrete attempts have been made to heal the wounds of Assam, including the Assam accord conceived by our young and beloved former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. We should revisit them, and adapt them to present conditions in the spirit of justice and national interest," Mukherjee said in his first address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day.The Assam Accord was signed on August 15, 1985 by the Central government with student leaders of the Assam, who led a six-year-old movement demanding detection and deportation of illegal migrants.
Expressing his concerns over the simmering tensions between the ethnic groups, Mukherjee said, "old fires that threaten the stability of our nation have not been fully doused the ash continues to smoulder."
"Our minorities need solace, understanding and protection from aggression. Violence is not an option violence is an invitation to greater violence," he said.
He said peace was needed for a "new economic surge" in the region that can quell "competitive causes of violence".
The recent clashes between Bodos and Bangladeshi immigrants have left at least 77 people dead and more than four lakh people have been rendered homeless in the lower Assam districts.
Almost 400 villages, in the districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Dhubri and Baksa have been affected in the violence.
Thousands of people packed the Bangalore City railway station on Wednesday night to catch the earliest available trains to leave the City. Despite appeals by the police to ignore the rumours, the rush to get back home was unabated.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde spoke to Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, asking him to reassure the North-Eastern community in Bangalore.Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday held a high-level meeting in the wake of exodus of people from the Northeast amid rumours of planned attack against them.
Indian government has refused proposal from an NGO group to deport some 4 million Bangladeshis in the riot-ridden northeast state of Assem, who allegedly have illegally immigrated to India and gained voting rights, said local media Friday.
Indian government has told the Supreme Court that it would not be possible to "delete names of 40 lakh doubtful voters from the state on the basis of their religious or linguistic profile as it would be unconstitutional," said Press Trust of India.
The government was rejecting the allegation of NGO Assam Public Works that over 40 lakh or 4 million illegal migrants from Bangladesh had got their names entered into the electoral rolls and they should forthwith be deported.
In an affidavit placed on Thursday to the apex court, the government also was committed to weed out illegal migrants from the state, which has seen unprecedented violence over the past three weeks in which over 70 people were killed in fighting between local Bodo people and Muslims, while over 400,000 were displaced and put in refugee camp or temporary shelters.
A day after the spar between Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and senior BJP leader LK Advani jeopardised the BJP's offensive to corner the government on Assam's violence, leader of opposition Arun Jaitley sought to turn the tables in the Rajya Sabha, pushing his party's strong line against unchecked illegal migration from Bangladesh.
Jaitley articulated the BJP's position, which is also the RSS stance, that unchecked illegal migration of Bangladeshis into Assam was at the root of the recurring ethnic clashes.He also sought to bring to the dock Congress CM Tarun Gogoi's political strategy, which had given him an unprecedented third term in May 2011 and reduced the BJP and the AGP to a single digit number in the assembly. As home minister Sushil Shinde did not to respond to Jaitely, several BJP leaders said the opposition leader had "nailed" the Congress.
Jaitley charged the government with adopting the policy of vote-bank politics that led to the violence in the state. He said the Centre's "soft" approach and Gogoi's scheme of things – balancing fears and concerns of one community against another – won't work in the long run.
He said, "You must respect the Supreme Court's verdict that struck down the IMDT Act, which put the onus on authorities to prove migrants were foreigners, and let Foreigners Act to extend to Assam."
Referring to Assam's first CM Gopinath Bordoloi he said, "If you adopt the original line of Bordoloi (who wanted cultural and linguistic identity of Northeast), India will be safe in your hands. But if you adopt vote bank politics, I don't think this region is safe."
The two special trains were in addition to the regular train leaving for Guwahati on the same night. One was an 18-coach special, while the other was a 19-coach special. Divisional Railway Manager Anil Kumar Agarwal said they had no other option in view of the heavy bookings.
More trains
"We do not know what we will do if the same thing continues tomorrow. We are trying to get coaches and there is a possibility that we may schedule more trains," he said.
On the other hand,There is a possibility that Muslims in the Bodo districts of Assam will turn "militant," influenced by jihadi outfits from across India, in case their security is not ensured by the State government. This warning was sounded by the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) in its report on the recent communal violence in Assam and has been communicated to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. The report was prepared after it visited the conflict-torn districts in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) and Dhubri district in Assam.
The NCM delegation, which included Planning Commission member Syeda Hameed and NCM member K.N. Daruwalla, visited Kokrajhar, Gossaigaon, Dhubri and Bilasipara in July. Its report said the cause of the riot originated from the conflict between the Bodos and the resident Muslims of BTAD, and not between Bangladeshi migrants and the Bodos, even though it said infiltration from Bangladesh did take place throughout the year.
"The conflict this time as far as we could see was not between some exodus of Bangladeshi immigrants and the Bodos but between the Bodos and the resident Muslims of the BTAD."
"The conflict was unequal because the Bodos had leftover arms from the Bodo Liberation Tigers [AK 47 etc]. The Muslims are very poorly armed in comparison," the minority panel report said, with a warning about the potential jihadi influence on the Muslim population in Bodoland.
"There can be grave danger in future in case militant jihadi outfits from the rest of the country start supplying lethal weapons in this area," it said.
The panel has also recommended the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the major incidents of violence during the riots in the State as "this will restore confidence in the justice delivery system."
It has also called for a "serious and detailed dialogue" between the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Assam government, and the Bodoland Territorial Council. Such an interaction, it said, was "absolutely essential." The report also observed that the Bodos think that "driving out other ethnic people'' was in their interest and that is why the NCM delegation told the Chief Minister that "Bodos need to be told firmly that they cannot under any circumstances engineer a mass exodus of the non-Bodos and that they would never get statehood this way."
"BE FORCEFUL"
Accusing the administration of failing to stop the first round of violent clashes between Muslims and Bodos in the BTAD areas, the delegation told the Chief Minister to instruct the police to be "more forceful with both Bodos and Muslim criminals."
"We were also left with the distinct impression that the lower rungs of the police were afraid of taking action against the Bodos, possibly because of the armaments they possessed and the fact that they ruled the area," observed the delegation.
CONDITIONS "PATHETIC"
While visiting the camps of the Bodo and Muslim victims who fled after their homes were gutted down and looted by arsonists, the delegation expressed concern at the "pathetic condition of the camps where Muslims were housed'' and noted that overcrowding was a major problem.
Describing the condition at the Grahampur high school camp in Gossaigaon district, the report said: "This was a horrendous camp with 6,569 inmates from 31 villages."
Just see the NDTV report(http://www.ndtv.com/article/cheat-sheet/bangalore-is-safe-no-need-to-leave-say-assam-karnataka-and-centre-10-latest-developments-255380)
New Delhi/ Bangalore: The Centre and the Karnataka government have reiterated that there is no threat to people from the North-East living in Bangalore, and there is no need for them to considering returning home. Cosmopolitan cities like Bangalore and Pune have been on edge as they try to guard against aftershocks of the ethnic clashes in Assam over the last month.
Here are the latest developments in this case:
People from the North East should stay where they are, said Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi this afternoon. He phoned the chief minister of Karnataka yesterday to request that students and young professionals in Bangalore be reassured that no attacks have taken place in the state against anyone from the North East. Some students in Bangalore who belong to the North East have reported receiving threatening sms-es. The central and state government say attempts are being made to identify the senders of these messages. Doctored photos on social media are also being circulated, say sources, resulting in tension.The government is also stressing that two special trains that left Bangalore for Guwahati last night accommodated people travelling for the long weekend and Eid. Reports of people leaving Bangalore in panic are incorrect, they said.New violence has been reported from Assam's Baksa and Kamrup (Rural) districts - a car, bus and bridge have been set on fire. Baksa, which is in lower Assam, was one of the districts affected in the recent clashes between Bodo tribals and Bengali-speaking Muslims. Nearly 80 people have died in the last month in the ethnic clashes. Till rrecently, four lakh people were packed into relief camps. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said in Delhi this morning, "I appeal to the people not to spread any rumours. Strict action will be taken against those who do that." Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar met this morning with student representatives of the North Eastern community in Bangalore. He assured them that their security is a priority for the government.Yesterday, Mr Shinde and the Prime Minister had called Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who heads the BJP government in Karnataka, asking him to ensure the safety of the thousands of students from the North-East who live in Bangalore.In New Delhi, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said, "Panic due to rumours in Karnataka is a very serious issue. The Karnataka government will do everything to protect the people from the North-East. It is a case of concerted effort to create divide among people." She also urged the governments of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra to build confidence among people from the North East who study or work in cities like Hyderabad and Pune.Over the weekend, a demonstration in Mumbai against the violence in Assam was attended by thousands; it ended in a riot with an armed mob attacking the crowd, policemen and reporters. A doctored MMS that was circulated in Mumbai also allegedly provoked violence against the North-Eastern community in nearby Pune. 12 people have been attacked in the last week in the city known for its IT hub and colleges. 11 people have been arrested.
(with inputs from Agencies)
As the buzz of large-scale violence after the period of Ramzan took hold during the day, sale of train and flight tickets skyrocketed. So heavy was the rush at the railway station that Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka rushed to talk to the passengers.
Rumour mongering over Assam violence has caused panic among the Northeastern students and professionals. An estimated 4,000 people who hail from the Northeast, but were living in Bangalore, are now rushing to leave the I-T city and return to their home states as a fallout of the recent communal clashes.
This is because they fear for their safety after many reportedly received anonymous SMSes saying they would be targeted in retaliatory attacks. "Our relatives in the Northeast are calling us back due to security reasons," one of the Northeast students said.
Many were seen boarding trains out of Bangalore on Wednesday, even after Karnataka's Home Minister R Ashok addressed them on the station's PA system to reassure them of their safety.
Karnataka Home Minister R Ashok spoke on the station public announcement system and appealed the Northeast people not to leave Bangalore. "Bangalore is safe, don't believe in rumours, don't leave Bangalore," he said.
Karnataka DGP Lalrokhuma Pachuau appealed to the Northeast students to not panic. "People claim they have received anonymous messages and saw updates on the social media. They should not panic as there is not a single attack anywhere. Northeast students are meeting state home minister and other senior police officials at 11 am. We have called a meeting at 4 pm of the Northeast leaders and other community leaders," he said.
The government says there is no need to panic. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde have spoken to Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar. He has also called a high-level meeting with senior police officials and Northeast community leaders.
Ranjan Biswas, PRO divisional office Bangalore, said, "There were too many people going to Guwahati, so we had to give them two special trains."
But not just Bangalore, there have been similar attacks elsewhere as well. Thirteen people were arrested for allegedly beating up Northeastern students in Pune last week. The Pune police met members of the Muslim community urging them to disregard a controversial MMS clip that has been doing the rounds. Police say the clip is doctored and aimed at creating communal tension. A case has been filed against unknown persons for circulating it. Security is being stepped up at colleges in the city.
Meanwhile, a Tibetan college student was stabbed in Mysore by two people who suspected him to be from the Northeast.
Meanwhile,(thanks to http://ibnlive.in.com/news/live-govt-says-dont-believe-rumours-on-ne/282722-3-251.html):
12:45 pm: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi appealed to the Northeast to not give in to rumours and not panic. "There is panic amongst our students and people across India. A lot of rumours are doing the rounds, this is creating panic amongst the people. There is no need to panic, people should not give in to rumours," Gogoi said.
12:30 pm: Northeast MPs will meet UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi over rumours on attacks on the people from the Northeast.
11:20 am: The Karnataka Police has given a helpline number for the people from the Northeast - 9480801020.
11:10 am: Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari said the Centre must take strong steps to ensure the safety of Northeast people. "This is an issue of Indian vs foreigner and government should leave vote bank politics and the Assam violence should not be given a communal colour. The government should take strong action against the anti-India elements. The students from the Northeast are leaving from Karnataka and other states out of fear. The government should take steps to stop this. The matter will be taken up in Parliament by the Leader of the Opposition," Gadkari said.
11:00 am: The government has appealed to people to not believe in the rumours and warned those spreading rumours leading to thousands of Northeast students fleeing Bangalore. "Action will be taken against those spreading rumours. There is no need to fear," Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said. "The Prime Minister spoke to the Karnataka Chief Minister. I, too, have spoken to him. There has been no incident in Karnataka. I appeal to everyone not to spread such rumours," Shinde added.
Minister for Northeast Affairs Paban Singh Ghatowar said, "Rumours are being spread by unidentified people. I have spoken to the Karnataka Home Secretary. I appeal to the people not to panic or believe rumours."
Karnataka DGP Lalrokhuma Pachuau appealed to the Northeast students to not panic. "People claim they have received anonymous messages and saw updates on the social media. They should not panic as there is not a single attack anywhere. Northeast students are meeting state home minister and other senior police officials at 11 am. We have called a meeting at 4 pm of the Northeast leaders and other community leaders," he said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde have spoken to Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar. He has also called a high-level meeting with senior police officials and Northeast community leaders.
An estimated 4,000 people who hail from the Northeast, but were living in Bangalore, are now rushing to leave the I-T city and return to their home states as a fallout of the recent communal clashes.
This is because they fear for their safety after many reportedly received anonymous SMSes saying they would be targeted in retaliatory attacks. "Our relatives in the Northeast are calling us back due to security reasons," one of the Northeast students said.
Many were seen boarding trains out of Bangalore on Wednesday, even after Karnataka's Home Minister R Ashok addressed them on the station's PA system to reassure them of their safety.
Karnataka Home Minister R Ashok spoke on the station public announcement system and appealed the Northeast people not to leave Bangalore. "Bangalore is safe, don't believe in rumours, don't leave Bangalore," he said.
CNN-IBN Appeal: Don't spread rumours and panic
Rumours of attacks on a community are doing the rounds. CNN-IBN appeals to all well-meaning citizens to keep away the rumours and sift facts from fiction. We appeal to all communities to work together to ensure that the students from the Northeast are reassured of their safety.
Thirteen people were arrested for allegedly beating up Northeastern students in Pune last week. The Pune police met members of the Muslim community urging them to disregard a controversial MMS clip that has been doing the rounds.Police say the clip is doctored and aimed at creating communal tension. A case has been filed against unknown persons for circulating it. Security is being stepped up at colleges in the city.Reports said that students and working professionals from the North East were scared to venture out of their homes and had appealed to the police to provide the protection.The students also formed an association, the police said.There are almost 10,000 North Eastern students and professionals in Pune.
Assam: Local violence should be stamped out locally, to prevent a conflagration
ET Bureau Aug 14, 2012, 06.46AM IST
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-14/news/33201311_1_assam-violence-organisers
That there is sectarian violence in Assam is bad enough. That it is being extended outside the state is worse, as it has the potential to create and deepen communal polarisation across the country. The clear lesson is that every level of government in the country has a responsibility to live up to the ideal of secularism, and failure to discharge this crucial duty in any place can easily spiral into endless violence and schism that undoes the very idea of India.
The violent protest in Mumbai and the beating up of people from the north-east in Pune, in reaction to the violence against Muslims in lower Assam, is a very serious development. The organisers of the protest might have reasoned that such a show of community solidarity in parts of the country distant from Assam would demonstrate to the authorities that there would be unpleasant repercussions across the land if the violence is not put down in Assam.
It is true that such show of the potential for violence in other parts of the country does bring pressure on central authorities to restore order in Assam. At the same time, such organised protests outside the state also serve to provide grist to the mill of majority communalism.
This form of putting pressure on the central authorities only serves to solidify community-based divisions across India. Once such divisions take root in the minds of the people at large, it would be beyond the task of mere governments to maintain national unity and harmony amongst diverse faiths.
It is against the interests of majority and minority communities in multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-lingual and multi-caste India for any group to openly challenge the idea of India as a place where this multitude of identities can live together in harmony and dignity. It is necessary to caution Muslim organisations against the Mumbai- and Pune-style violent protest.
VHP demands deportation of illegal Bangladeshi migrants
http://sevensisterspost.com/vhp-demands-deportation-of-illegal-bangladeshi-migrants/#
Post Bureau, Kokrajhar (Aug 4): The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) demand military action against Bangladeshi infiltrators to safeguard the citizens of the country.
VHP international working president Pravin Togadia told reporters here that there had been "massive infiltration" of Bangladeshis into Assam since 1951.
"I demand military action against Bangladeshi infiltrators, otherwise no people will be safe," he said.
He also demanded immediate deportation of all Bangladeshi immigrants from the Indian territory.
Earlier, accompanied by some local BJP and VHP leaders, Togadiya interacted with the inmates of camps in Sukhanjhora, Titaguri, Swrang high schools, etc., on Saturday.
The VHP members also distributed also distributed food items, medicine and clothes in the relief camps.
Togadiya said that the central and state governments had "deliberately" allowed Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators into Assam and other parts of India for vote bank politicis.
"There have been constant alerts about these infiltrators having links with the ISI and terror groups like the HUJI and Indian Mujahideen. Yet endangering nation's security, they are being allowed to enter the country, given voter IDs and other facilities that are generally not available to the local tribes and Hindus in Assam," he alleged.
The VHP leader said that it was a national shame that the original tribes and Hindu citizens have to live in relief camps, while Bangladeshi Muslims are grabbing relief materials and money.
He alleged that more than one crore Muslims had illegally settled in the state and that no government both at the Centre and in the state had taken the initiative of pushing them back. Muslim militants along with Muslim immigrants had tried ethnic cleansing in the region and all the communities are bearing the brunt of the same, he added.
Demanding that no Muslims be resettled in the villages, he demanded "no Muslims should be resettled in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) area without their identification as per the National Register of Citizens (NRC) of 1951." He also claimed that there were no more than 5,000 Muslims in the state in 1951, which had risen by several crores, threatening to engulf the entire region. He, however, said he had no objections to resettlement of Muslims in the BTAD villages after proper scrutiny of their identity as per the NRC of 1951.
Tagodia also called for a joint fight against the Bangladeshi infiltrators and vote only for those candidates w ho can protect the local indigenious communities from the Bangladeshis all the time. H e alleged that the Hindus in Bangladesh had been facing ethnic cleansing for the past few decades and demanded that the Hindus who came in from Bangladesh be immediately given refugee status as per the directives of the Supreme Court. He further demanded that each of the family who had lost its near and dear ones in the recent communal violence be provided Rs7 lakh and the injured Rs4 lakh, with all medical expences.
The VHP also demanded jobs for the k in of those who had lost their sole bread earner, houses built by the government and free household items. However, he was against extending government facilities to the illegal immigrants and was in favour of deporting the illegal Bangladeshis immigrants immediately.
"The Bangladesh government has been sending its people to invade the Indian territory as per an elaborate gameplan by manipulating the existing system," he alleged. He added that Assam was fast becoming like Kashmir, whose demography had already changed, and those responsible in the government for directly or indirectly helping the infiltrators should be prosecuted for treason and for waging war against the country.
At the same time, it is important that the state contain, at every level, any outbreak of violence, any breach of the code of peaceful coexistence a multi-identity nation necessarily has to follow. No political expedience should come in the way of that. All parties and their leaders should commit to this responsibility as a prime national duty.
See this report also:
Healthy side of Assam
Patralekha Chatterjee
http://www.asianage.com/columnists/healthy-side-assam-100
Kokrajhar is one of those places that don't show up on the radar of middle-class India in normal times. The past few weeks, however, have dramatically changed that. The horrors of violence-wracked Kokrajhar have seeped into our living rooms. Suddenly, this backward district in Assam on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra seems not so far off.
As independent India turns 65, can a site of violence also be a place that sparks hope? The answer is yes. A small group of doctors from Assam and other parts of the country offer an inspirational example of how to turn a humanitarian crisis into an opportunity — they show what young India can do to help those in need. The doctors — who are in their 20s and 30s — are part of a non-profit organisation called "Doctors For You" (DFY). They are working in the relief camps in Kokrajhar and elsewhere, providing much-needed care to pregnant women, young mothers and newborns.
In July, Bodo tribals and Bengali Muslim settlers, including those suspected to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, clashed viciously in Kokrajhar and other districts of Assam, leaving a trail of devastation. Over 70 people have died; some four lakh people have lost their homes. Satellite television brought images of death, displacement and disease stalking Kokrajhar — the epicentre of the sectarian violence.
The wrenching visuals from the conflict zone — of thousands of men, women and children squeezed into squalid, overcrowded relief camps, the desperate search for food, clean water, doctors and medicines — have raised once again two uncomfortable and intertwined issues.
The first relates to the complex web of factors behind the clashes. There is a furious and polarising debate on land, identity and the extent to which the flow of illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh can be held responsible for precipitating the latest disaster. There is no consensus on what should be done to avert such clashes in the future. There is no easy solution either. But it is now painfully clear — if it was not so before — that sweeping the issue of illegal immigration under the carpet does not help.
The second issue is the humanitarian crisis fuelled by the sectarian clashes. This is as important as the debate about the politics behind the clashes because of the magnitude of the human misery and because of the huge gaps in disaster preparedness it has shown up. This is most tellingly illustrated in the state of healthcare. At the time of writing, no epidemic has broken out but tens of thousands continue to live in precarious conditions from the point of view of public health. Over 2.4 lakh people are still reportedly living in relief camps and it is highly unlikely that they will all be able to return to their homes over the next few days, or even weeks. If diseases spread in these camps, it will not matter who is legal and who is illegal. As fresh floods ravage parts of Assam, the state administration faces the twin challenges of natural and man-made disasters. There is a vital need, therefore, to have a road map for emergencies ahead. The fact that such planning is possible and effective is shown by the small example of the DFY team.
The team was heading for Kokrajhar— ironically to conduct the first district-level training of doctors in disaster management — when the violence broke out. The doctors waited in a nearby district, hoping the clashes would end. That did not happen. After consulting one another, they decided that instead of sitting around in their hotel rooms, they would straightaway start helping the survivors of the conflict. This was at a time when ministers in the Assam government were appearing on television news shows and saying doctors were afraid to go the area.
This is not the first time the young doctors are working in an emergency situation. Three years ago, DFY was among the first to send medical teams to flood-ravaged Bihar. One doctor was struck by lightning and died in the middle of relief work. His colleagues were shattered but stayed put. The dedication and the commitment of these young doctors have earned the organisation much international acclaim. In 2010, it received the Saarc award for Outstanding Contribution to Humanitarian Works in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters. Last year, the British Medical Journal chose DFY as the "Best Medical Team in a Crisis Zone". Set up some five years ago, DFY specialises in medical emergency work and is now supported by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). It has offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Patna and Guwahati.
"I am inspired by Medecin Sans Frontieres (MSF). We hope DFY can become an Asian MSF in a few years," says Dr Ravikant Singh, president. Like MSF, the Nobel Prize-winning international NGO, Singh and his team are buoyed by the idea of working in conflict zones.
"In and around Kokrajhar, things were bad in the initial stage but the government's response has improved a lot in recent days," says Dr Mridul Deka, 29, a member of the DFY team. More government doctors have been deployed and women in the relief camps are now getting antenatal check-ups and measles vaccination for children has started.
And yet there are daunting challenges ahead. Many camps are still too crowded. There is a paucity of toilets, heightening the risk of disease. Some camps are more crowded than others and the standards of health, hygiene and sanitation are not uniform. This is worsened because the relief camps are unfortunately segregated along ethnic and religious lines. The divide now runs so deep that even a doctor from one of the ethnic groups does not feel welcome in a relief camp inhabited by another ethnic group.
But there are many takeaways from the work that the small group of DFY doctors are doing in the middle of all this. The key insight is the need for a functioning disaster management plan. There are government agencies which are supposed to do this, and there are policy documents aplenty. But when a crisis strikes, local administrations are usually caught unawares. Many experts have felt over the years that if local doctors and administrators have a fixed drill to follow on a day-to-day basis, and if they have received training in disaster management, it will be much easier for them to contain the kind of situation that flared up in Kokrajhar.
The writer focuses on development issues in India and emerging economies
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