12-06-2006, 04:19 AM
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Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
Buoyed over the Supreme Court order on the illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday demanded that illegal migrants living in any part of the State should be sent back to their homeland at the earliest.
"The apex court order is a slap in the face of the UPA Government. They should take up the task of deporting such illegal Bangladeshi migrants from Indian States seriously. The Government must do the needful to expedite the process of identifying such people," Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Deputy Leader of BJP in the Lok Sabha, said.
<b>"Millions of Bangladeshis are illegally living in different States like Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. There should be no delay in deporting them. They are a security threat. Many of them are allured by foreign agencies to carry out anti-India activities,"</b> Malhotra added.
Using the Supreme Court order as ammunition to attack the Centre, the BJP leader said that the UPA Government was indulging in vote-bank politics that was boomeranging.
<b>"Whether the decision of Andhra Pradesh Government to go for religion based quota in jobs or quota for the students of a particular community, none of these vote-bank driven moves of the Congress has stood the scrutiny of the judiciary," </b>Malhotra said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the Foreigners (Tribunal) for Assam Order 2006 and the Foreigners (Tribunal) Amendment Order 2006 and asked the Government to deport all illegal Bangladeshi migrants living in Assam.
Rejecting the argument that innocent Indian Muslims too have to bear the brunt in the name of identifying Bangladeshi migrants, Malhotra said that people with vested political interests only raised such apprehensions.
"It is the Government's responsibility to ensure that innocent people were not harassed at all, and not a single illegal Bangladeshi migrant is left out in the country," he added.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>A large number of people from Bangladesh illegally migrate to India through the 4096-km long Indo-Bangladesh porous border. Their estimated number is pegged at over 15 millions, scattered in several States including West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura and other north-eastern States.
It is estimated that nearly 80 lakh illegal Bangladeshi migrants are in West Bengal, followed by Assam 50 lakh, Bihar 4.75 lakh, Tripura 3.75 lakh, Delhi 3.7 lakh, and Nagaland has over one lakh illegal migrants.
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"Justice has finally been done to the people of Assam. It is a great victory for them. We urge the Government to constitute a tribunal to identify illegal migrants in the State and deport them," Sarbananda Sonowal, Lok Sabha MP and general secretary of Assom Gana Parishad, said.
Sonowal had challenged the Centre's notification that put the onus of proving a particular person to be a foreigner on the complainant.
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Pioneer.com
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
Buoyed over the Supreme Court order on the illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday demanded that illegal migrants living in any part of the State should be sent back to their homeland at the earliest.
"The apex court order is a slap in the face of the UPA Government. They should take up the task of deporting such illegal Bangladeshi migrants from Indian States seriously. The Government must do the needful to expedite the process of identifying such people," Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Deputy Leader of BJP in the Lok Sabha, said.
<b>"Millions of Bangladeshis are illegally living in different States like Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. There should be no delay in deporting them. They are a security threat. Many of them are allured by foreign agencies to carry out anti-India activities,"</b> Malhotra added.
Using the Supreme Court order as ammunition to attack the Centre, the BJP leader said that the UPA Government was indulging in vote-bank politics that was boomeranging.
<b>"Whether the decision of Andhra Pradesh Government to go for religion based quota in jobs or quota for the students of a particular community, none of these vote-bank driven moves of the Congress has stood the scrutiny of the judiciary," </b>Malhotra said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the Foreigners (Tribunal) for Assam Order 2006 and the Foreigners (Tribunal) Amendment Order 2006 and asked the Government to deport all illegal Bangladeshi migrants living in Assam.
Rejecting the argument that innocent Indian Muslims too have to bear the brunt in the name of identifying Bangladeshi migrants, Malhotra said that people with vested political interests only raised such apprehensions.
"It is the Government's responsibility to ensure that innocent people were not harassed at all, and not a single illegal Bangladeshi migrant is left out in the country," he added.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>A large number of people from Bangladesh illegally migrate to India through the 4096-km long Indo-Bangladesh porous border. Their estimated number is pegged at over 15 millions, scattered in several States including West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura and other north-eastern States.
It is estimated that nearly 80 lakh illegal Bangladeshi migrants are in West Bengal, followed by Assam 50 lakh, Bihar 4.75 lakh, Tripura 3.75 lakh, Delhi 3.7 lakh, and Nagaland has over one lakh illegal migrants.
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"Justice has finally been done to the people of Assam. It is a great victory for them. We urge the Government to constitute a tribunal to identify illegal migrants in the State and deport them," Sarbananda Sonowal, Lok Sabha MP and general secretary of Assom Gana Parishad, said.
Sonowal had challenged the Centre's notification that put the onus of proving a particular person to be a foreigner on the complainant.
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