Sadou Asom Goria-Moria-Deshi Jatiya Parishad (SAGMDJP) against 1951 as cut-off year

Constitutional safeguards

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: The Sadou Asom Goria-Moria-Deshi Jatiya Parishad (SAGMDJP), an indigenous Assamese Muslim body, says that the actual indigenous people of the State will suffer if 1951 is taken as the cut-off year for Constitutional safeguards for the indigenous people of the State. The Parishad says that such a move will let lakhs of immigrants get constitutional safeguards.

Addressing a press conference at Dispur Press Club on Saturday, Parishad president Hafijul Ahmed said, “Infiltration has been going on in Assam since the British Raj. The indigenous people of Assam who were in the State even before the arrival of the British have to be identified and given indigenous status. Various groups and organizations are out to mislead the high-level committee formed for the implementation of the Clause 6 of the Assam Accord. While the Jamiat has proposed in its memorandum to accord indigenous status to all immigrant Muslims, the AAMSU (All Assam Minority Students’ Union) has demanded indigenous status to all people who entered Assam till 1971. If such proposals are accepted, there’ll be no meaning of Constitutional safeguards.”

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