PTurn ‘Miya Ouster Movement’ into ‘Foreigner Ouster Movement’: Akhil Gogoi

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BOKAKHAT: The Raijor Dal will launch a National Awakening March from August 16. The programme will be undertaken with the demand to identify and expel all foreigners who came to Assam after March 25, 1971. This was announced on Friday by Raijor Dal president and Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi at a press conference held at Kaziranga National Orchid Park.

Gogoi said, “We want a permanent solution to the foreigner problem.” Recently, under the patronage of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s government, a “Miya Ouster Movement” has been taking place. Gogoi stated that this Miya Ouster Movement should be transformed into a “Foreigner Ouster Movement” and that Raijor Dal would extend full cooperation and stand together in it.

Promoting the vision of a secure Assam, Gogoi said that through the National Awakening March, the party would raise five demands before the government: prepare a clean NRC and, before that, issue an official Assamese Identity Card to every person who came to Assam before March 25, 1971 and identify and expel those without the identity card from Assam one by one, grant Scheduled Tribe status for the protection of Assamese people to the Moran, Motok, Ahom, Chutia, Koch-Rajbongshi, Tea Tribes/Adivasis, and also include the Kalita and Nath-Yogi communities who have been demanding ST status, declare Assam as a tribal state, implement Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, Protect Assam under Article 371 (A) of the Constitution.

Gogoi remarked that by patronising the “Miya Ouster Movement”, the BJP government in Assam was trying to create a lawless situation. He said that the eviction was being carried out at a time when, through the CAA, the Assam BJP government had already withdrawn 69,500 cases from the Foreigners Tribunal involving suspected Hindu Bangladeshis.

Gogoi added that the Chief Minister himself had said that the government was supporting the “Miya Ouster Movement” and was making arrangements to arm indigenous people to fight with the Miyas. “If a government that cannot provide security to the people asks them to take up guns for their own protection, then it has failed to maintain law and order,” he said. Therefore, he demanded that the central government impose President’s Rule in Assam.

On another note, Gogoi said that the root of the “Miya Ouster Movement” is Shrinkhal Chaliha. “Shrinkhal is an absolutely unread, uninformed young man, with no knowledge of any subject, who is working for the government,” Gogoi commented.

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