Driving out Illegal Migrants

The people of Assam are at their wits end when Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, during his recent visit to Assam emphatically asserted “we won’t allow illegal migrants to stay in India”. Undoubtedly this is a good news for the people of Assam. On earlier occasions too similar comments were passed by other BJP leaders. But what is the reality? Is it possible or practicable? The government cannot count the myriad of illegal migrants declared foreign nationals by the Foreigners Tribunals. The declared foreigners have mingled with the people of the state in such a way that it is next to impossible to identify them. We note with concern that a good number of such dubious nationals stay in urban areas in localities of the indigenous Muslim families who rent their houses to accommodate them and who are engaged either in petty business or daily wage or rickshaw/ cart pulling. That apart, many such people with dubious nationality stay in sar areas or on the bank of the Brahmaputra.

It is now for our people to decide how much weight they would attribute to the contention of the Union Home Minister’s assertion.

Ashok Bordoloi,

Dibrugarh.

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