Assam
keeps burning and, as usual ,the country sleeps. The current riots
(more than 100 killed and more than 400000 displaced; official figures)
are not the first and they certainly are not going to be the last. The
Indian media does not care because it is not worth their effort and
resources to cover the happenings in a state which is not even in the
consciousness of most of their viewers. The jantaa is not worried
because the north eastern states are not in their idea of India. As for
the political parties, all the seven states in north east account for
just about 20 seats in the Lok Sabha so it is not worthwhile for them to
think about the welfare of these areas, and leave them to the mercy of
Bangladeshis, Separatists and Missionaries.
East
Bengal’s attraction for goes back more than a century. Even during the
proposed partition of Bengal in 1905, the Muslim League had demanded
Bange-Islam, on the targets of which was to flood sparsely populated
Assam with Bengali Muslims. During the second world war, Md Sadaudaula
the then premier of Assam , gave a big influx to this infiltration.Mujib
ur Rehman, the former Muslim league gangster who became the first prime
minister of Bangladesh and who is the "secular" doyen according to the
secular intelligentsia ,had always coveted the mineral rich wealth of
Assam (“Eastern Pakistan must include Assam to be financially and economically strong.”).
He had remarked that very slowly, but surely the Bengali Muslims
through the demographic growth would overwhelm Assam one day. On the
other hand, Gopinath Bordoloi, the first CM of Assam in independent
India,who being Gandhian was oblivious to all these dangers as the
bloodbath just a few years ago and the resulting partition had failed to
open the eyes of his likes and hence he saw the influx as something of
coexistence.
Mujib
ur Rehman is not alive today but he would have been delighted that the
Bangladeshi population is being given more than just help for capturing
Assam by the power hungry politicians of India's grand old party.It is
no secret that Congress Party has encouraged and abetted illegal
immigration of Bangladeshis to build their vote bank in Assam. Dev Kant
Barua (one who said India is Indira and Indira is India) had famously
remarked that the party would be in power as long as the Alis
(Bangladeshi migrants) and Coolies (tea garden labourers) are there. For
over three decades now, Bangladeshi immigrants have been helped to
cross the border, given citizenship, ration cards and localities to stay
permanently in Assam. They have just one job to do, that is to vote for
Congress. Rest all is taken care of. The census was not even carried
out in Assam as the extent of Bangladeshi infiltration is
to be kept secret. But it is no secret now that over one third of Assam
population today are Bangladeshi Muslims.
We
have reached a phase now where the entire north eastern part of the
country being ingested by Bangladesh is a very frightening reality and
not just a nightmare. And it is the secular govt of independent India
who is to be blamed for this, which has steadfastly allowed and
encouraged the infiltration of Bangladeshis to India to such an extent
that today 2-4 percent of India's population is of Bangladeshi illegal
immigrants.
Separatist
organizations like ULFA have heavily targetted the non Assamese
population but they do not lay a finger on Bangladeshis in return for a
safe haven in Bangladesh.There are already MLAs of Bangladeshi origin in
Assam Assembly who make it sure that their brethren are in comfort in
India. More than one fifth of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West
Bengal have a high concentration of voters who happen to be illegal
immigrants from Bangladesh in addition to the fate of 40 Assembly
seats in Assam depending on the votes cast by illegal Bangladeshi
infiltrators. The day is not far when there will be Bangladeshi MLAs in
other states of the country as well. Or a Bangladeshi Chief Minister of
Assam. Or a Bangladeshi Mayor of Navi Mumbai.It will prove our secular
credentials.
These
immigrants have not only become the defacto citizens of India, but have
proved to be more than a thorn in the flesh. They are heavily into
criminal activities across all states in India which includes robbery,
theft, illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs and liquor, smuggling of
pornographic films and vulgar literature. In many rural areas of WB and
Assam, it is them who have the ownership of most of the land which is
mostly captured by driving away the original inhabitants from them.
India's north eastern border is very porous, add to that the various
smuggling, prostitution, narcotics, rings that operate between the two
countries. Illegal immigrants always manage to get in,either by
collaborating inhabitants of the border villages or by bribing the
paramilitary forces in many instances. The paramilitary forces
themselves come under attack from the immigrants with many cases of loss
of lives which is promptly ignored by the secular media. In many
villages, the Bangladeshis cross over from the border, sell their wares
in India and by night return again.
Even
in Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura the
Bangladeshis have married the local women in large numbers and as a
result, a new people have been brought into existence, who retain the
name of their mother’s clan inspite of being sired by Bangladeshi
fathers. Using their wives ST status, the Bangladeshi husbands are able
to purchase vast tracts of land which are normally reserved for the
“janjaati”. The havoc caused by all this is seen in Nagaland where the
majority of the labour force is now Bangladeshis, who also occupy most
of the shops in the main markets of Kohima (In fact more than three
fourths of the local businesses are now no longer in local hands). More
than three fourths of the markets remain closed during Muslim
festivals/observances. There have been many protests on this but they
are quelled down when the Bangladeshis threaten to discontinue the safe
haven given to Naga separatists.
In
April 1992 Hiteshwar Saikia, then Chief Minister of Assam, said on the
floor of the State Assembly that there were about 3 million illegal
Bangladeshi immigrants in the State. The Muslim United Front leaders
declared that he must withdraw his statement within 48 hours- or they
would bring his government DOWN. Saikia withdrew his statement
During
his tenure, the then governor of Assam, Lt Gen (retd) SK Sinha had
submitted a detailed 42 page report to the President in Nov 1998, the
salient points of which are given below:-
“
Large scale illegal migration from East Pakistan/ Bangladesh over
several decades has been altering the demographic complexion of this
State. It poses a grave threat both to the identity of the Assamese
people and to our national security. Successive governments at the
center and in the State have not adequately met this challenge- -. I
felt it is my bounden duty to the Nation and the State I have sworn to
serve, to place before you this report on the dangers arising from the
continuing silent demographic invasion.”
" The unabated influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh---, threatens
to reduce the Assamese to a minority in their own State, as happened in
Tripura and Sikkim.The long-cherished design of Greater East Pakistan/ Bangladesh,making
inroads ito the strategic land-link of Assam with the rest of the
country, can lead to severing the entire land mass of the North-East- -
-- from the rest of the country. This will have disastrous economic and
strategic consequences.”
" This
silent and invidious demographic invasion of Assam may result in the
loss of geostrategically vital districts of Lower Assam. The influx of these
illegal migrants is turning these districts into a Muslim majority
region. IT WILL THEN ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME WHEN A DEMAND FOR THEIR
MERGER WITH BANGLADESH MAY BE MADE. THE RAPID GROWTH OF ISLAMIC
FUNDAMENTALISM MAY PROVIDE THE DRIVING FORCE FOR THIS DEMAND. IN THIS
CONTEXT IT IS PERTINENT THAT BANGLADESH HAS LONG DISCARDED SECULARISM
AND HAS CHOSEN TO BECOME AN ISLAMIC STATE. LOSS OF LOWER ASSAM WILL
SEVERE THE ENTIRE LAND MASS OF THE NORTH-EAST FROM THE REST OF INDIA- - -. “
15
recommendations were made by him, including effective border fencing,
ID cards, updating the national register of citizens and repealing the
Illegal Migrants (Determination of Tribunals Act), which applied to
Assam and was causing massive migration. He also recommended that the
migrants which were not recognized as Bangladeshis by the then Sheikh
Hasina Wajed govt should be declared as stateless citizens and their
voting rights should be revoked.
The
result? Twenty Congress MLAs in Assam wrote to the President demanding
Lt Gen Sinha’s ouster from the post of Assam’s Governor. The Chief
Minister Tarun Gogoi issued press statements stating that the governor’s
actions were “constitutional impropriety”.
(Late)
Lt General Jameel Mehmood, GOC Eastern Command in the 90s had warned
both the chief ministers of WB and Assam (Jyoti Basu and Tarun Gogoi,
respectively) that “if action was not taken against the Bangladeshi infiltrators, we would have to redraw the boundaries of India in the Northeast.”He had also written to the Army HQ that a Kashmir like situation cannot be ruled out in near future.
The result? Zero, as expected.
Nagaland
Chief Minister has time and again reported various incidents of
Bangladesh migrants being given combat training in the jungles of Assam
and Nagaland from Naga separatists. This has been ignored as well.
Inspite
of the Supreme Court cancelling the IMDT Act in 2005, the govt brought
it again through the back door by amending the Foreigners Act. The
Guwahati High court has already declared, via a judgement on 23/07/2008,
the Bangladeshi migrants being kingmakers, with 11 out of 27 districts
in Assam having a migrant majority. The ironically named All India
United Democratic Front is the second largest party in the Assam State
Assembly today. It is run by and voted to power by the migrant factions
and its influence is growing everyday, with them garnering the support
of minorities all over the country.
A
third islamic nation is all set to be carved out from the easternmost
part of India when the time is ripe. And we don't give a rat's a or a
flying f about it.
Sometimes
one wonders, what is it that will spring us into action? Live gang
rapes and murders in every neighbourhood everyday? A direct action day
type scenario in some city every month? Or a nuclear attack on a major
metropolitan city by either of our beloved neighbours?
What
kind of a depraved people are we who produce such leadership who think
of nothing in allowing immigration at the cost of the rights and
safety of the local population for the sake of a few hundred thousand
votes?
What
kind of society have we become that produces and elects such leaders
whose vision does not extend beyond the next election, whose only
objective is to make as much money as possible when in power and to
siphon resources from whatever is in their immediate reach, whose only
talent lies in winning elections, whose only capability lies in blocking
roads and taking out processions, whose only constructive work is
creating lobbies and votebanks, who have no desire to build a strong
nation or an efficient and a meritocratic society.
The
sad part is that the entire society in the country today operates by
selfishness and short sighted petty gains. Leaders, civil servants and
the police are merely the ghastly mirrors in which the society sees its
ugly face every now and then and vehemently denies that the horrid face
which stares back is theirs. The only reason that the voters cast their
vote is for freebies like reservations and sops which their propped up
leaders promise them when they come to power.
Hence
minority appeasement and caste politics are more important than
development and national security. Populist measures are more important
than justice. Political correctness is more important than truth. Self
denial is more important than desire to progress.
Fate
has already been more than generous to us. Entire people have been
wiped out for much lesser follies. But ours dont seem to end and its
just a matter of time when the patience of fate runs out as well.
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