08-29-2012, 08:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-29-2012, 08:14 AM by G.Subramaniam.)
http://nvonews.com/2012/08/28/assam-riot...nd-in-n-e/
Riots in Assam and subsequent exodus of people of North East from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have provided the Bharatiya Janata Party an opportunity to expand its activities in North-Eastern states, where the party has traditionally been weak.
Not only the BJP leaders like Lal Krishna Advani directly blamed the infiltration from across the Bangladesh as the factor responsible for the turmoil in Bodoland region of Assam several BJP leaders of south and western Indian states utilized the situation to visit the region, apparently to appeal to those who have left the respective states following threat that they would be targeted after Eid.
Though no such attack was reported after the festival from anywhere and people from North-East have even started returning to Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad etc several state BJP leaders are making tours of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura etc. Though they are claiming that they are visiting these places to urge the people who have fled to return, in the process the BJP is trying to strengthened its party organizations in the region.
For example, Karnataka deputy chief minister R Ashoka, was on a goodwill mission to Imphal (Manipur) on August 26. He had met a delegation of parents to urge them to send back their children and relatives.
Ironically several social organisations of Meghalaya, otherwise a Christian-dominated state, such as the North East Studentsââ¬â¢ Organisations, Khasi Studentsââ¬â¢ Union (KSU), Federation of Khasi-Jaintia and Garo People (FKJGP), Hynniewtrep National Youth Front (HNYF) and Civil Society Womenââ¬â¢s Organisation (CSWO) have sought the intervention of the BJP to check, what they alleged, influx of the people from across the international border into the state and the rest of the North East.
Riots in Assam and subsequent exodus of people of North East from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have provided the Bharatiya Janata Party an opportunity to expand its activities in North-Eastern states, where the party has traditionally been weak.
Not only the BJP leaders like Lal Krishna Advani directly blamed the infiltration from across the Bangladesh as the factor responsible for the turmoil in Bodoland region of Assam several BJP leaders of south and western Indian states utilized the situation to visit the region, apparently to appeal to those who have left the respective states following threat that they would be targeted after Eid.
Though no such attack was reported after the festival from anywhere and people from North-East have even started returning to Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad etc several state BJP leaders are making tours of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura etc. Though they are claiming that they are visiting these places to urge the people who have fled to return, in the process the BJP is trying to strengthened its party organizations in the region.
For example, Karnataka deputy chief minister R Ashoka, was on a goodwill mission to Imphal (Manipur) on August 26. He had met a delegation of parents to urge them to send back their children and relatives.
Ironically several social organisations of Meghalaya, otherwise a Christian-dominated state, such as the North East Studentsââ¬â¢ Organisations, Khasi Studentsââ¬â¢ Union (KSU), Federation of Khasi-Jaintia and Garo People (FKJGP), Hynniewtrep National Youth Front (HNYF) and Civil Society Womenââ¬â¢s Organisation (CSWO) have sought the intervention of the BJP to check, what they alleged, influx of the people from across the international border into the state and the rest of the North East.