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Centre responsible for foreigners` influx: Gogoi
Guwahati, Mar 19: Assam Chief Minister Taun Gogoi today held the Centre responsible for the influx of illegal migrants into the state and accused the BJP of `remembering the IMDT Act as the time for elections was nearing`.
Guwahati, Mar 19: Assam Chief Minister Taun Gogoi today held the Centre responsible for the influx of illegal migrants into the state and accused the BJP of "remembering the IMDT Act as the time for elections was nearing".
"The Centre is at fault for the influx because it has not sealed the international borders, failed to complete the border roads and fencing," he told a function held here to mark the completion of two years of his government.
"The BJP is remembering the IMDT Act and wants to repeal it as the time for the polls is approaching. Immigrants are there in other parts of the country and the act is not applicable there. Yet the foreigners have not been deported from there.
"We don't want foreigners here and we want them to be identified and deported. But they have to be identified under the judicial procedure of the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act and not by the police", Gogoi said opposing the repeal move of the Centre.
He said the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre wanted to give work permit to the foreigners. "We opposed it as we don't want foreigners here."
The chief minister also charged All Assam Students Union (AASU) of sponsoring the six year-long anti-foreigners' Assam movement in the '80s to capture power.
"In 1980 when the movement began, the then prime minister Indira Gandhi proposed 1971 as the cut off year for detection as foreigners. They did not agree to it then but accepted the proposal five year later in 1985 as by then they had attained 25 years of age to contest the polls", he said.
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"The BJP is remembering the IMDT Act and wants to repeal it as the time for the polls is approaching. Immigrants are there in other parts of the country and the act is not applicable there. Yet the foreigners have not been deported from there.
"We don't want foreigners here and we want them to be identified and deported. But they have to be identified under the judicial procedure of the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act and not by the police", Gogoi said opposing the repeal move of the Centre.
He said the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre wanted to give work permit to the foreigners. "We opposed it as we don't want foreigners here."
The chief minister also charged All Assam Students Union (AASU) of sponsoring the six year-long anti-foreigners' Assam movement in the '80s to capture power.
"In 1980 when the movement began, the then prime minister Indira Gandhi proposed 1971 as the cut off year for detection as foreigners. They did not agree to it then but accepted the proposal five year later in 1985 as by then they had attained 25 years of age to contest the polls", he said.
Bureau Report