GUWAHATI:
Unfenced riverine borders of India with neighbouring Bangladesh not only caused large scale influx to Assam but also helped raining activities of Jihadis and other fundamentalist forces in the state.
This was stated by All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) general secretary Sankor Jyoti Baruah after a visit to the riverine borders of India with Bangladesh in Dhubri district on August 21..
A delegation of AASU led by Baruah visited the Indo-Bangladesh borders at Dhubri district and expressed their dissatisfaction over the unfenced riverine borders in the district.
The delegation visited from Pilar no 1001 to 1031 of the border and that they were shocked to see that the entire border at the Gangadhar River in Binnachara area near Golakganj is totally exposed.
“We have warned the Centre and the state governments 40 years back about the consequences of open riverine borders in Dhubri district. But they did not listen to us. No Assam chief minister realised the Jihadis have sneaked into the state through the riverine border for expanding their network in the northeastern region,” Baruah said.
The AASU leader criticised the Centre and the state government for their failure to seal the riverine border in Dhubri district and said that they had made false promises on sealing of border and cheated the people of the state.
“The Centre and the state government have failed to live up to its promise of sealing the border even 37 years after the signing of the Assam Accord. The influx will continue if the border remains porous,” Baruah further said.
“The historic Assam Accord of 1985 has completed its 37th anniversary and still one of its major clauses for sealing the Indo-Bangla border have remained untouched”, the AASU leader said.
“Both the Centre and the state governments have not shown their interest in protecting the border. Moreover, the quality of fences is much poor than they used in Indo Pak borders,” he alleged.
“All the promises that the Centre and the state are making about the sealing borders and different technologies that are being used to protect the influx is false and are only on pen and papers”, he further said.
The AASU leader advocated for use of scientific methods for protection of the porous border with Bangladesh and to check influx of illegal migrants.