05-31-2005, 07:41 PM
Pioneer
[/QUOTE][QUOTE]<b>Danger from east</b>
SirâThis refers to your editorial, âAlien poisonâ (May 23). Like true nationalists, you have done well to highlight the dangers of illegal infiltration of migrants from Bangladesh into Assam. This has led to a change in the demography of the State and is likely to jeopardise the security of the country. But our selfish politicians could not care less as long as the illegal immigrants keep adding to their Muslim vote-bank. It may be recalled that Assam was claimed by Jinnah as a part of Pakistan. During the early 1940s, a Muslim League Ministry headed by Muhammed Saadulla (who later helped in framing the Constitution of secular India as member of the Constituent Assembly) opened the doors of Assam to lakhs of Bengali Muslims. After his visit to Assam, Khaliquzzaman, a Muslim leader, reported to Jinnah that Assam would soon become a Muslim-majority province. The Viceroy, Lord Wavell, after his visit to the State during the Bengal famine, wrote in his diary, âThe chief political problem in Assam is the desire of Muslim ministers to increase immigration into the uncultivated government lands under the slogan, âgrow more foodâ, but what they are really after is âgrow more Muslimsâ.â However, the ambition of the Muslim League remained unrealised because independence and Partition came sooner than expected. This unfinished agenda is being brought to its logical conclusion by the Congress Government of Assam. What is beyond comprehension is why the NDA Government led by the BJP in all the six years of its rule did nothing about the swelling Bangladeshi population in India. Not a single Bangladeshi infiltrator was deported by them. This is one reason among others why people have lost faith in the BJP.
HD Sharma
[/QUOTE][QUOTE]<b>Danger from east</b>
SirâThis refers to your editorial, âAlien poisonâ (May 23). Like true nationalists, you have done well to highlight the dangers of illegal infiltration of migrants from Bangladesh into Assam. This has led to a change in the demography of the State and is likely to jeopardise the security of the country. But our selfish politicians could not care less as long as the illegal immigrants keep adding to their Muslim vote-bank. It may be recalled that Assam was claimed by Jinnah as a part of Pakistan. During the early 1940s, a Muslim League Ministry headed by Muhammed Saadulla (who later helped in framing the Constitution of secular India as member of the Constituent Assembly) opened the doors of Assam to lakhs of Bengali Muslims. After his visit to Assam, Khaliquzzaman, a Muslim leader, reported to Jinnah that Assam would soon become a Muslim-majority province. The Viceroy, Lord Wavell, after his visit to the State during the Bengal famine, wrote in his diary, âThe chief political problem in Assam is the desire of Muslim ministers to increase immigration into the uncultivated government lands under the slogan, âgrow more foodâ, but what they are really after is âgrow more Muslimsâ.â However, the ambition of the Muslim League remained unrealised because independence and Partition came sooner than expected. This unfinished agenda is being brought to its logical conclusion by the Congress Government of Assam. What is beyond comprehension is why the NDA Government led by the BJP in all the six years of its rule did nothing about the swelling Bangladeshi population in India. Not a single Bangladeshi infiltrator was deported by them. This is one reason among others why people have lost faith in the BJP.
HD Sharma