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Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 04-15-2005

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Non-BJP CMs want Centre to evict Bangladeshis
Pioneer Neews Service/ New Delhi

At CMs meet, B'deshi and Naxal menace takes centrestage--- The issue of infiltration from Bangladesh dominated the Chief Ministers' conference on Friday with chief ministers of at least seven non-BJP states asking the Centre to take steps to firmly tackle the controversial issue which posed a grave threat to national security.

The alarm bells rung by the Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram should come as a wake up call for the UPA Government at the Centre, which has been reluctant to admit the danger of Bangladeshi infiltration.

The issue of illegal infiltration from Bangladesh has often generated much controversy in the political arena. While the BJP has been in the forefront of seeking strong action against the infiltrators, Congress and many of its UPA allies have been shy of admitting the problem because of votebank considerations. In many Lok Sabha seats and Assembly segments along the Bangladesh border, the infiltrators are in a position to decide the fate of candidates, which exposes the policy of appeasement being practiced by many political parties.

The meeting called to discuss internal security issues saw concern on illegal infiltration from Bangladesh emerging as the main focus of debate along with growing problems of Naxal menace.

While chief ministers of Maharashtra and West Bengal separately spoke of the danger of infiltration from Bangladesh and its linkage with ISI activities, the issue brought five chief ministers from the North East on one platform.

Alarmed by the rising illegal immigration into North-East from Bangladesh, the chief ministers of the five states of the region asked the Centre to increase security along the international borders and help them strengthen their police forces.

They also demanded that the region's insurgency problems be treated as a "national issue as in the case of Kashmir" so that these could be solved quickly.

"Steps have been taken to ensure that the demographic structure of the North-East is kept intact. The Centre should strengthen the presence of border security force along the borders with Bangladesh," Meghalaya Chief Minister DD Lapang told a Press conference.

"They should enhance its manpower and modernise its mechanism for checking immigration. We also expect financial support for modernising our police forces," he added.

He was joined by his counterpart from Arunachal Pradesh Gegong Apang, Manipur CM O Ibobi Singh, Mizoram CM Zoramthanga and Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio.

Differences within the states on the issue of illegal immigration, however, became evident with Mr Rio virtually charging Assam with not taking steps to check it.

"Assam has almost become a breeding ground for illegal migrants as they are procuring documents like ration cards there and then coming to the hills, this is very dangerous," the Nagaland CM said.

Mr Rio also claimed that such migrants were being settled in disputed areas between Assam and several other states.

The Congress-led Maharashtra Government also made a strong plea to the Centre for greater coordination and support to tackle the problem of Bangladeshi nationals, whose "heavy influx" into the state, especially in Mumbai, posed a serious threat to the internal security.

Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, addressing the conference of internal security, said a large number of Bangladeshi nationals were settled in the slums in Mumbai and some other cities like Pune, Nagpur, Nasik, and their involvement in criminal activities and organised crime was growing.

Besides, a number of Bangladeshi girls are also finding their way into the flesh trade and dance bars of Mumbai, he said, adding that detection, arrest and deportation of the Bangladeshi nationals was "problematic and time-consuming."

Mr Deshmukh wanted a more effective, cohesive and institutionalised mechanism of intelligence sharing between the Centre and the state, considering Mumbai's special place in the overall security scenario.

He wanted the Centre to help the state set up a team for Mumbai to tackle the situation arising out of possible deployment of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists in Mumbai.

Mr Deshmukh said intelligence reports have indicated the gameplan of Pakistan's ISI of landing arms and explosives on the west coast of India and simultaneously operating through the underworld to push in fake currency to shatter the economy.

The Left Front Government of West Bengal was also equally forceful in its presentation about the threat from infiltration. Expressing serious concern over infiltration of ISI agents into India from the neighbouring country who are engaged in espionage and other 'subversive activities, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya said state police along with the central agencies have been taking effective action against these elements.

West Bengal has been maintaining a strict vigil along the entire stretch of the state's international border, particularly with Bangladesh, it has put its machinery on high alert and was closely monitoring the situation, he said.

Apart from the continuing incidents of infiltration across the Indo-Bangladesh border, Mr Bhattacharya said recent intelligence inputs indicating heightened activities of the ISI and fundamentalist organisations in the neighbouring country pose a serious threat to the Eastern region of India.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 04-17-2005

We should refer to thread on Demographic Politics And Population Growth to get statistics on influx.

Illegal immigration is from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and Western nationals (Who over stay) e.g., Auroville
We should know why they are coming?
What are their objectives?
How this will effect Indiaâs long term and short term security?
What are GOI and politicians views on these critical issues?

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - agnivayu - 04-18-2005

QUOTE(Mudy @ Apr 17 2005, 04:55 AM) We should refer to thread onÂ Â Demographic Politics And Population Growth to get statistics on influx.

Illegal immigration is from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and Western nationals (Who over stay) e.g., Auroville
We should know why they are coming?
What are their objectives?
How this will effect Indiaâs long term and short term security?
What are GOI and politicians views on these critical issues? 
The Primary focus should be on Muslims immigrants, as they are a security threat.

Christian missionaries should be denied visas, but it won't happen now since India is basically run by Christian foreign barbarians.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - G.Subramaniam - 04-18-2005

Per George Fernandes, when he was defense minister,
the BSF takes bribes and lets in 1 lakh muslims each month

So even a NDA govt cant stop this

The only way out is hindu counter-breeding to dilute the muslim %

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - agnivayu - 04-18-2005

QUOTE(G.Subramaniam @ Apr 18 2005, 07:24 AM) Per George Fernandes, when he was defense minister,
the BSF takes bribes and lets in 1 lakh muslims each month

So even a NDA govt cant stop this

The only way out is hindu counter-breeding to dilute the muslim % 
If the BSF can be bribed so easily, maybe we can raise a fund to counter bribe the BSF to fire at illegal Muslims?

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 04-19-2005

QUOTEA grave threat
The Pioneer Edit Desk
18th Apr 2005

It is hardly surprising that the issue of illegal migration from Bangladesh featured prominently at the conference of Chief Ministers on internal security last Friday. As many as seven Chief Ministers- those of West Bengal, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Maharashtra-urged upon the Centre to take strong steps to curb the influx which posed a grave threat to national security.

That none of them belonged to the BJP, which first brought the issue of illegal influx to the forefront of the national security discourse, is significant. It firmly underlined the fact that the matter is one of national and not partisan concern. The scale of the influx and the size of the population of illegal migrants in India, which, according to various Government reports, varies between 12 and 15 million, are alarming. More, it has caused significant demographic changes in some of the States, particularly in their border districts. In 2001, Muslims accounted for 30.9 per cent of Assam's population against 28.43 per cent in 1991.

Between the same two years, the West Bengal's Muslim population increased form 23.61 per cent to 25.24 per cent of the total. Of Assam's 27 districts, Muslims are in a majority in six-all along the Bangladesh border. In sharp contrast, the rise in Muslim population in the interior districts has been markedly less, which clearly indicates that the composition of border district populations is a result of virtually unchecked increase in the influx from Bangladesh.

What gives this influx a sinister dimension is the ISI venture, code-named Operation Pin Code, to carve out, in collusion with Bangladesh, an independent Islamistan out of India's Northeast by accelerating the influx of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants into Assam's lower districts. The first step in frustrating the ISI design is, therefore, stanching the influx into Assam and the northern districts of West Bengal, which constitute the rest of the country's gateway to the Northeast.

Unfortunately the Centre, which is ultimately responsible for protecting the country's borders, is guilty of gross dereliction of duty in this respect. Nothing underlines this more sharply than its decision on October 27 last year, not to repeal the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) Act of 1983, which has turned out to be the single biggest hurdle in the way of the identification and deportation of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. It doubtless applies only to Assam. But the latter has the largest population of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants among all States-an estimated 50 lakh. Besides, as Nagaland's Chief Minister, Mr Neiphiu Rio stated at the conference, "Assam has almost become a breeding ground for illegal migrants as they are procuring documents like ration cards there and then coming into the hills."

Assam's Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has publicly claimed that it was the State Government that had persuaded the Centre not to repeal the IMDT Act. And it does not take exceptional intelligence to recognise that this in turn was the result of his party's vote-bank politics. One hopes that the demand by the seven Chief Ministers would make the Centre see the sinister implications of its decision and also the need to deal firmly with the problem of illegal migration.

It must also speed up the construction of border fences. The report in last Thursday's Bangladeshi newspapers that it had agreed not to construct barbed wire fences within 150 yards of the border on the Indian side, is disturbing. The Centre would do well to clarify the position immediately.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - G.Subramaniam - 04-19-2005

Agnivayu,
Politically active hindus are short of funds
we dont even have money to have a TV station

The BSF takes crores in cattle smuggling and people smuggling

The BSF officer who got killed yesterday was cracking down on smuggling

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 05-14-2005

grassroots campaign..

http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory...+Assam&id=72982

QUOTEBangladeshis 'SMSed' out of Assam
Kishalay Bhattacharjee

Friday, May 13, 2005 (Dibrugarh):

An economic blockade enforced by a little known youth group in Upper Assam, the Chiring Chapori Yuba Mancha has forced thousands of illegal Bangladeshi settlers to flee.

Illegal immigrants have been one of Assam's biggest issues for the last two decades.

But this time round there were no demonstrations, strikes or boycotts. Instead a campaign against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants is being carried out through SMS.

Losing jobs

People are being told through cell phone messages to not give jobs or food to Bangladeshis.

As a result of a campaign that began on April 15, thousands of Bengali Muslim labourers and rickshaw pullers have been leaving the town of Dibrugarh.

"We have been asked to leave. Our jobs are not being given to us and we are being harassed. My husband is a rickshaw puller and he has no work so we are leaving," said an immigrant.

Enforcing a writ

In recent weeks the Governor of Assam sent a report saying that thousands of Bangladeshis are still coming in everyday.

The outgoing judge of the IMDT Tribunal, which is supposed to detect and deport infiltrators has also admitted that infiltration is continuing on a large scale.

But with the ruling Congress government denying the presence of foreigners, a little known youth group is able to enforce a writ like this one.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 05-16-2005

QUOTEAssam Govt orders probe into exodus
Sanat K Chakraborty/ Shillong
Alert to the possibility of a communal backlash in the wake of the exodus of the suspected Bangladeshi migrants from Dibrugarh, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday rushed to the upper Assam district to deal with the situation.

The Assam Government has ordered a commissioner-level enquiry into the incident, official sources said on Sunday. The order was given when Minister of State for Home Rockybul Hussain, along with Minister of State for Planning Himanta Biswa Sarma, visited the district.

In the last few days, hundreds of migrant labourers have fled Dibrugarh town after a local organisation, Chirang Chapori Yuva Manch, asked the Assamese people not to employ or offer food and shelter to any Bangladeshis. To spread their message they had circulated handbills and sent SMSes across the commercial town.
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Manch activists also asserted that their drive was not against any religious community; it was directed at the illegal Bangladeshi migrants, who the Manch alleged were involved in anti-social and all kinds of nefarious activities in Dibrugarh.
At a time when the ruling Congress in Asam is seeking to retain power in the coming elections, the spectre of anti-foreigners agitation degenerating into communal riots appears to be haunting the Chief Minister. Three decades ago, a similar situation had led to the massacre of hundred of migrant Muslims and the eventual rout of the Hiteswar Saikia-led Congress Government.

Then, the anti-foreigners stir, too, had begun with a call for economic and social boycott, which subsequently turned violent, causing mass exodus of Muslim migrants and killings.

The fear is that this may happen again now. Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Bhubaneswar Kalita told The Pioneer over the telephone from Guwahati that the party was seized with the issue and the state government is taking all possible steps to bring the situation under control.

Mr Kalita, who is likely to be re-elected as the state pradesh Congress chief, said that the Chief Minister was holding discussions with both the police and civil administration, and a full enquiry into the incident is under way.

Home Minister Rockybul Hussain, an influential leader of the minority community and Home Commissioner BK Gohain are also camping with the Chief Minister.

On Wednesday, at a Press conference, Mr Gogoi had announced that his government would set up more tribunals under the IM(DT) Act, 1983 to speed up the process of detection and deportation of suspected Bangladeshis, as well as update of the National Register of Citizens.

He had added that a separate Directorate would be set up within 15 days and the process of updating the NRC would begin from September1.

In view of the exodus of the suspected Bangladeshi migrants, the North Eastern Student Organisations (NESO), an umbrella organisation of the major students unions of the northeastern states, alerted their respective state governments against infiltration of these fleeing people into the state

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 05-19-2005

QUOTEGovt must deport 100 aliens daily: HC 
Staff Reporter/ New Delhi
The Delhi High Court has dismissed the Centre's plea seeking to amend its earlier action plan which required it to deport 100 illegal Bangladeshi migrants every day.

Accepting there has been a shortfall in achieving the deportation target of illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the Centre on Wednesday expressed its helplessness to meet the target set before the court since the matter was sought to be pursued diplomatically.

The Division Bench of Chief Justice BC Patel and Justice SK Kaul while dismissing the application as "absurd", observed, "the application has been made in the guise to delay the entire process of deportation".

Stating that the Centre has failed to comply with its proposed action plan, the court stressed that the Centre must ensure all steps to comply with its previous action plan.

Putting forth its case, the Centre which was represented by senior advocate Gopal Subramanium, stated to the court that the issue of deportation had to be "practically feasible." This involved taking into consideration the Universal Declaration for Human Rights as well as the Vienna Convention on Consular Relation 1963.

In this context, a meeting of Committee of Secretaries was held on April 25, 2005 which decided that "although identification and transportation of migrants can be implemented, the action relating to deportation can only be taken in conjunction with Bangladeshi authorities."

Hence it was decided that the Ministry of Home Affairs would evolve a practical policy taking into account the facilities which need to be provided to identify illegal migrants as per international conventions, keeping in mind the diplomatic implications while Ministry of External Affairs would engage the Bangladesh Government to arrive at an amicable solution.

Hence, the Centre sought relief from the court to give a go-by to the target of at least 100 deportations per day as set out by the Centre in 2002.

On their part, the Delhi Police filed an affidavit before the court detailing the practical difficulties being faced by them in identifying Bangladeshi nationals. Admitting that the Bangladeshi nationals were getting wiser by the day and shifting base to the city's periphery, they made another startling revelation in court.

Police said that these migrants were beginning to seek shelter in mosques or in residences of local, influential Muslim families. When the police party reached the area, the problem assumed communal overtones. In one instance, the affidavit stated that a police party from Lodhi Colony police station was attacked with stones and the window pane of their van broken by suspected Bangladeshi migrants.

The other problem police faced was that many migrants had valid documents stating they were bonafide Indian citizens.

While assuring that deportation of illegal Bangladeshi migrants was on, the Delhi Police submitted that a total of 1,994 migrants had been deported by police till April this year.

Considering that several lakh illegal Bangladeshis reside in specific pockets of the city, the Delhi Police with 20 dedicated teams has managed to deport only 15,461 Bangladeshis in three years (2002-05).

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 05-24-2005

Bangladeshis get fake passports in NE

23 May 2005: At least two hundred Bangladeshis have obtained Indian passports from Tripura on the basis of false affidavits and documents, and this was discovered after the Kolkata regional passport office detected a large number of fake applications from the North East.

A Tripura police official said that many Bangladeshi youth were being lured to take Indian passports to travel to Canada and other Western countries since it was almost impossible to do so on a Bangladesh passport.

Following an alert from Kolkata, Tripura police and customs arrested a Bangladeshi, Jahangir Hussain, from the border town of Sonamura, who had procured a passport in the name of Iqbal Hussain, by obtaining a citizenship certificate, and ration and voter identity cards, by bribing officials. 

Inquiries revealed that he had been rejected for a Canadian visa in Bangladesh, and coming from an affluent business family, he had rented a property for a year, and had even acquired land, to get past Western immigration officials in Delhi.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 06-05-2005

QUOTENon-violent response to runaway infiltration 
V Satish, Northeast in-charge, BJP
What has happened recently in Dibrugarh and some other parts of Assam clearly reflects the public mood. The people are not only totally disillusioned with the Tarun Gogoi government, but are also ready to give the right answer to the criminal neglect by the Congress as far as illegal infiltration of Bangladeshi's is concerned. Unabated infiltration from neighbouring Bangladesh has not only changed thedemography of Assam, but also has posed as a potential threat to the security and integrity of the country.

The fate of the Assamese people was already sealed when they were told by the UPA government that the IM(DT) Act would not be repealed. As if this was not enough, the Gogoi government has been consistently undermining the threats posed by illegal infiltrators and has also denied the very existence of Bangladeshis in Assam and the ISI's network. 

The talk of an independent Islamic state comprising the present Bangladesh and parts of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam with other north-eastern states is already there, and forces at the international level are at work to make it a reality. With a totally hostile regime in Bangladesh, Indo-Bangladesh relations are at its lowest ebb, and anti-India insurgents of all hue are getting moral and logistic support from Bangladesh. Besides, the present Bangladeshi regime, by allowing north-eastern insurgent groups to set up camps for imparting arms training to their cadre, has sent a clear signal to India about its intentions. It is time we had a fresh look at the present Indo-Bangladesh relations.

The whole issue of exodus of suspected Bangladeshis was raised by an unknown organisation called Chiring Chapori Yuva Manch at Dibrugarh. At the same time, the BJP unit at Golaghat raised its voice against an alleged attack by suspected Bangladeshis on one Bihu group of local Mishing community at Merapani near the Assam-Nagaland Border. The administration tried to hush up the incident saying there were no Bangladeshis in Dibrugarh or Golaghat.

With the call for social boycott of suspected Bangladeshis and their economic blockade, the situation took a new turn. Now the movement is not confined to Dibrugarh alone, it has spread to all over Assam. This is nothing but a peaceful and democratic public resistance to drive out the illegal infiltrators by enforcing economic blockade.

These incidents have come handy for Syed Sahabuddin and Golam Osmani to dub the entire movement as "anti-minority" by blaming the BJP, RSS and VHP. Even the two cabinet ministers who were sent to Dibrugarh to assess the situation blamed the BJP and the Sangh parivar.

The panic reaction shown by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi only betrays the fact that the Congress is worried about its vote bank rather than the present and future of the state. And it is specifically against this callousness and vote bank politics of the power hungry Congress and its government that the patriotic and peaceful people of Assam have raised their voices.

The whole issue of unabated infiltration from Bangladesh has been discussed and described in different ways by different political parties. The UPA is silent over this serious security threat, and Congress leaders have termed this as a "human problem" echoing the views so far expressed by its allies on the Left.

They are saying that Bangladesh is a poor country and, therefore, migration is taking place due to hunger and nothing else. This interpretation is not only gross over- simplification, but also crude denial of the pertinent security threats emerging out of concentration of nearly 20 million illegal settlers who have grabbed land,enrolled themselves as voters, captured several occupations and, above all, are now in a position to dictate their terms in elections in certain border areas of West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura.

In 1998, the then Governor of Assam,Lt-Gen SK Sinha (retd), submitted a report on the large-scale infiltration and the need to repeal the IM(DT) Act,which has not delivered anything so far even after spending crores of rupees. The present Governor of Assam, Lt.-Gen. Ajay Singh (retd), has also raised his concern in a report that was supposedly submitted to the President, APJ Abdul Kalam.

The Census of 2001 has given a warning signal as far as Assam, West Bengal, Bihar and few other states are concerned. It has termed Assam as the third state having a large number of people belonging to the religious minorities, mainly Muslims. In a population of 26 million, Muslims make up 30.9 per cent, and out of 26 districts, Dhubri, Goalpara, Barpeta, Morigaon, Nagaon, Hailakandi and Karimganj are more than 50 per cent Muslim. Assam has recorded this rise in Muslim population, from 15.03 per cent in 1901 to 30.9 per cent in 2001.

Along with infiltration from Bangladesh, there has been remarkable rise in the activities of international Islamic fundamentalist groups operating in Assam and other north-eastern states. Nineteen such groups which have direct support of the ISI are now operating in Assam.

So, the combined effect of infiltration and armed insurgency is a matter of great concern for all right thinking people. The failure of the IM(DT) Act has not only regularised the illegal settlers, but has also created problems for those displaced persons who had to cross the border due to communal disturbances in the former East Pakistan or present day Bangladesh. Because of the IM(DT) Act, the Immigrants Expulsion from Assam Act, 1950, has become infructuous.

The IM(DT) Act should be repealed in order to provide necessary safeguards to these displaced persons who were mainly Hindus. The present Assam government also wants to categorise these people as infiltrators, whereas to give them shelter was a part of our national commitment as they were the worst sufferers of the unholy partition of our motherland.Â

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 07-21-2005

QUOTE12 lakh official Bangla visitors missing: BSF 
Pioneer 21 July
Saugar Sengupta / Kolkata
Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi's observations that Bengal is sitting on an infiltration 'time bomb' has found widespread acceptance in the Border Security Force (BSF) as well as the State police.

Though the senior BSF officials refused to hazard a guess on the 'political aspect' of the problem or for that matter the political groups responsible for promoting illegal immigration. Additional Director General Damodar Sarengi, in charge of Bengal on Wednesday said,"infiltration has been a real problem plaguing the border areas for years."

The Governor had in a recent report to the President of India aired his concern on the issue and observed that unrestrained infiltration was threatening the demographic balance of the region.

For the records the two border districts of Murshidabad and Malda have in the recent times witnessed a significant rise in minority population.

Meanwhile, senior BSF officials suggested the Governor's observations "strengthen the stand taken by us." The BSF had earlier recommended a cluster of political, social and administrative measures alongside a strong vigil in the borders to check the infiltration menace.

According to the Mr Sarengi "Over 11 lakh Bangladeshis have gone trackless since 1971 after they entered West Bengal on valid papers." The BSF officers suggested most infiltration take place through Basirhaat, Macchlandapur, Bongaon in North 24 Parganas and Jamalpur in Nadia

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 07-27-2005

Illegal immigration biggest threat to India: AdvaniQUOTEInitiating a discussion on an adjournment motion on the issue of infiltration from Bangladesh in eastern parts of the country, leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani said the votebank politics had become âbiggest disaster for the countryâ. 

This is the first adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha since the Congress-led UPA came to power 14 months back. Noting that the âcontinued aggressionâ from Bangladesh had been on for several years since independence, Advani hailed as âhistoricâ the Supreme Court judgment striking down the controversial Act which had been in force since 1983. He said it was a victory for people of Assam.

He said the late Indrajit Gupta, who was the Home Minister in the United Front government in 1996-98, had told Parliament that there were one crore people from Bangladesh residing illegally in India. He said the magnitude of the problem could have grown much more in the last eight years.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Bharatvarsh - 07-27-2005

Govt flays SC remarks, hints at alternative to IMDT Act

Pioneer News Service / New Delhi

The Government on Tuesday gave firm indications of its intention to bring about a comprehensive legislation to make up for the repeal of the Illegal Migrants (Detection) by Tribunal Act while asserting its right to differ with the Supreme Court's observations. The Supreme Court, in fact, came under fire from the entire United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the IMDT Act.

The Government clearly didn't appreciate the strong observations made by the Supreme Court and felt it had delved into something which didn't fall into its domain. The usual cautious approach while dealing with issues related to judiciary was certainly missing and there was systematic disapproval of the court's remarks. This was endorsed by Speaker Somnath Chatterjee with his repeated comments like "what law is needed should be only by Parliament and not by any other forum".

The first sparks were shown by none other than the Leader of the House, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, who asserted the Government's rights to differ with the Supreme Court. He said, "I am not one of those courageous leaders who would cross the path of the Supreme Court. But don't we have the right to disagree with the Supreme Court and pass another legislation?"

The Defence Minister added: "We should not forget the first constitutional amendment was done even before the first general election only to correct an SC judgment. The court's observations and repeal of the Act cannot prevent Parliament from taking measures to protect the rights of genuine citizens." He also argued against the suggestion that Foreigners Act gave a better option, saying the answer would have to be found somewhere else.

What Mr Mukherjee expressed in a subtle way was bluntly put forward by the Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal. Arguing that all legal conflicts cannot be solved in a court of law, Mr Sibal said, "the Supreme Court is well within its rights to strike down a piece of legislation but it clearly didn't look upon the consequential effects of its judgment." He lamented that Leader of Opposition LK Advani, while moving the adjournment motion, had supported the court's observations and asked the Government to accept it.

Mr Sibal said he never saw judges attributing motives to a legislation. Stating that the court, by saying that a deeper analysis will reveal the Act had been purposely made so inactive as to give shelter to illegal migrants, he said, "Motives have been attributed to Parliament, the elected body, the last word on enacting legislation. Every Constitution Bench has said the court can't attribute motives to legislature."

He repeated Mr Mukherjee's argument that Mr Nagendra Singh, the Indian representative at the UN, had described the massive influx of people as external aggression in an entirely different context and what had happened in Assam, immigration since nineteenth century, couldn't be taken as external aggression. He asked why the court did not specify which country is the aggressor and asserted these things didn't fall in the court's domain.

Mr Sibal added, "this has far reaching consequences. This gives judicial imprimatur that a country has committed external aggression. These unfortunate observations have been made which can effect the relations of two countries. This is a matter of great concern and we in the executive will look into the broader consequences... The Congress will do what is in the best interest of the nation even in the light of the court's verdict."

The Congress stand got the backing of the Left, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party too. SP's Mohan Singh said the verdict was more political and less legal. "Whenever the Supreme Court gave political judgements, Parliament rose to redeem the situation. The GoM now formed must come out with a political alternative to the political judgement of the court. Parliament must do it in the national interest."

Mr Basudev Acharya, the CPI (M) member, lamented the court based its observations on the report submitted by the former Assam Governor. He also took strong objection to the court accepting the situation as external aggression and asked if ULFA was run in Assam by illegal immigrants. He said if external aggression was on in Assam for such a long time, why nobody ever raised it in Parliament.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?m...t&counter_img=3

So there u go, nothing will come of the supreme court judgement, as usual the Congress and the other terrorist parties will screw India again, the fate of Assam will be sealed in a few years.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Bharatvarsh - 08-06-2005

Udayan Namboodiri/ New Delhi

On Thursday, during Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee threw a bundle of papers in the direction of Deputy Speaker. Her act, though downright unparliamentary and quite condemnable on the face of it, has a context.

That context was all over the papers she hurled in full view of the nation. In them was damning evidence how the CPI (M) has, over the past two decades, padded the voter's list of West Bengal with Bangladeshi nationals. Over the past few years, committed supporters of the Trinamool Congress had documented the evidence at great risk to their personal safety. They had even crossed over into Bangladesh to establish the antecedents of these "voters".

Had the CPI(M)'s omni-present cadres found out, the whole exercise would have been scuttled. But, having hoodwinked them, Bengal's Agni Kanya found the last line of defence impregnable. And that was the Lok Sabha Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, who stood like a rock to prevent her from making a statement in the House.

For over a year now, the lone Opposition parliamentarian from West Bengal has been obstructed by the political establishment from raising the infiltration issue in its true light. The Congress-Left combine has deployed every trick to ensure that Bangladeshis not only stay on the electoral rolls of West Bengal - into which they were tucked over the preceding two decades - but also change forever the political geography of that state.

Parliament is not the only forum where Ms Banerjee has been repeatedly denied the opportunity to state her case. She was also illegally removed from the Delimitation Commission (DC). Of the five MPs and an equal number of MLAs accommodated from the state in the DC, the dice is today loaded heavily against the Trinamool Congress. Nine of these ten "associate members" are from the Left-Congress axis. The lone Trinamool representative, former IAS officer Dipak Ghosh, struggles hard at each meeting to resist a draconian proposal promoted by the two groups to give the border districts of West Bengal a disproportionately higher number of seats.

In lay terms, the same Bangladeshi infiltrators who have caused West Bengal's population explosion, are about to be rewarded with such political clout that it would be impossible for future governments in New Delhi and Kolkata to counter the destablising effects of demographic change.

Eighteen of West Bengal's 294 Assembly seats are to be shifted from low population growth areas to the very places where the results of the 2001 Census have shown a dangerous increase. In North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Murshidabad, Nadia, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakkhin Dinajpur, Malda and Darjeeling -all border districts - the Muslim population has soared not because of "natural growth" and cannot be explained by the community's general refusal to adopt the two-child norm. It is confirmation of the phenomenon of mass exodus from West Bengal.

And all those 18 are going to be taken away from the very regions where the population had seen low growth during the 1991-2001 decade. Five are to move to North 24 Parganas ( 7.28 million to 8.94 million; share of Muslims 24.2 per cent ), three each to Murshidabad ( 4.74m to 5.87m; 63.7 per cent) and South 24 Parganas ( 5.71m to 6.91m; 33.2 per cent), two each to Nadia ( 3.85m to 4.63m ; 25.4 per cent) and Uttar Dinajpur ( 2.44m in 2001 did not exist earlier ; 38.4 per cent) and one each to Malda ( 2.63 million to 3.30 million ; 49.7 per cent ) and Dakkhin Dinajpur ( another new district with 38. 4 per cent Muslim) and one in Darjeeling ( 1.02 million to 1.61 million ; 27. 3 per cent).

The districts to lose out are Kolkata ( ten seats), Paschim Medinipur, Purulia and Hooghly (two each), and Bardhaman and Birbhum (one each).

The script for this political reorganisation of West Bengal was written in the Alimuddin Street office of the CPI(M) in Kolkata. The official seal of approval was given by the state's election commissioner. The Congress, which found to its surprise in the 2004 election that it was still a favoured party of the state's Muslims (it won six seats in the border districts) gave its tacit approval.

That is why the two groups maintain strategic silence on the issue of infiltration at each meeting of the DC. But when the Trinamool's lone representative brings it up, as he did in the June 8 meeting at Vigyan Bhavan, Rupchand Pal, the CPI(M) MP from Hooghly, was quick to rise to his feet and shout him down with the preposterous claim that the "percentage of voters to the census population" is less in West Bengal than in Uttar Pradesh and some other states.

But the July 3 statement of West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjya, admitting the graveness of the infiltration issue, queered the pitch somewhat for the CPI(M). Five days later, when the DC met again, the Trinamool member impressed the Chairman, former Supreme Court Judge Kuldeep Singh, with his presentation on the secruity ramifications of the move. The Election Commission's nominee, N. Gopalaswami, assured him that the matter would be referred to the Home Ministry.

Most observers fear that the national yardstick of giving high-population areas more seats, if applied mechanically to West Bengal, can have disastrous consequences for national security. A former Governor of West Bengal ( now the incumbent in Lucknow's Raj Bhavan), TV Rajeshwar, had famously remarked that a "third partition of Bengal" may be in the offing if infiltration is not checked. That was back in 1990. Today, infiltrators are not only flattered by the Left with voting rights and ration cards, but are also about to be gifted with political domination.

Elbowed out of the DC and marginalised in Parliament, Ms Banerjee was perhaps at the end of her tether. The last date for submitting objections to the Left-Congress' seat re-distribution scheme went by on July 29. Ms Banerjee's plaintive cry must be heard. Unless the nation wants to gift Bengal away.

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Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 08-06-2005

QUOTEUnless the nation wants to gift Bengal away
Commies already did. I hope commie stay satisfied with one achievement that is distruction of WB.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Bharatvarsh - 08-06-2005

"Commies already did. I hope commie stay satisfied with one achievement that is distruction of WB."

Well I wouldn't say commies did, Hindus gifted away Bengal in my opinion, afterall Bengali Hindus are the ones who have been electing traitor commies as their leaders so Hindus should take the blame. But even now all is not lost, Muslims I think are abt 25% of Bengal, if Hindus there breed 5 kids each and start expelling illegals (foricbly through riots) we could save Bengal, even if they don't do that we can neutralise the threat by settling Hindus from overwhelmingly Hindu states like Orissa in Bengal to dilute Muslim pop and also we could import some Nepali Hindus into Bengali.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Guest - 08-06-2005

QUOTEelecting traitor commies 
Commies are master of Scientific rigging. Till center and election commision ignore this fact WB is lost state.
Bengali Hindus inplace of fighting commie moron, they are leaving state.

Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants - Bharatvarsh - 08-11-2005

QUOTECalcutta, Aug. 10: Over 90 per cent of people in two areas in Murshidabad do not have any document prescribed by the government to prove their nationality, according to an exercise sponsored by the Centre.

The startling piece of statistics has emerged from a pilot project commissioned by the Registrar General of India in Murshidabad, the border district that is often sucked into controversies over illegal immigration â one of the most contentious issues in Bengal and several parts of the country.

At first glance, the revelation seems to confirm what critics of the Left Front government have been alleging â that the state machinery has papered over the existence of a huge mass of populace which does not belong to the country but has been allowed to stay on as a captive votebank.

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