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Imphal, Aug 24: Nitin Gadkare, President of BJP todaycharged that the Congress party is responsible for the crisis in Assam and exodus of NE people from other Indian cities.
Addressing the media at the BJP office here today the BJP Chief said the crisis in Assam is not communal. The conflict is between peoples of Indian origin and foreign origin he added. The Congress party has mixed up the issue with vote banks he alleged.
The Dy Chief Minister of Karnataka Mr Ashok will also come to the north eastern states soon to appeal to the students, employees who had ran away to come back to Karnataka. In any of the BJP ruled states any person facing problems can approach BJP offices and they will be given assistance he assured. The BJP will raise the issue in Parliament and a political movement will be started on the exodus issue he declared.
There is no major incident in BJP ruled states like Karnataka and he expressed surprise over the fact that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh called up Karnataka Chief Minister only to discuss the exodus issue. Exodus of people from north east are taking place more from Congress ruled states he alledged.
The BJP will give highest priority to north east in the field of
power, water, connectivity he assured.
He further said it is unfortunate that corruption is rampant in Manipur and appealed to people to support political parties on ideology, principle.
A statement regarding his press conference said a BJP Goodwill Mission to North-east India will be visiting in next 4-5 days.
“Our Chief Ministers have been personally supervising all confidence-building measures and other necessary steps to provide security to the people of North-Eastern States and have issued repeated appeals to them to return to their place of work.
The party has set up help desks at important railway stations, especially in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune and put up help lines to provide them assistance.
We recently had a Conclave of BJP Chief Ministers’ in Delhi where we have decided to take every possible step to ensure safety and security of our NE brethren in our States. I have been in constant touch with the chief ministers of BJP-ruled states and state units of the party and exhorting them to convince the people from North-Eastern states that there was absolutely no threat to them in any part of the country. BJP workers have been asked to provide protection and assistance to the people from the North-East.
The Karnataka CM has assured the North- East States Students Association that “Karnataka belongs to all who are living there. Karnataka is safer than Assam. Nobody should panic or succumb to the rumour-mongering.”
The shameful incidents of violence in Assam that began in the Kokrajhar, Chirang and Bhuri districts of Assam and later spread to other areas in the state were basically clashes between Indians and Foreigners.
These most reprehensible clashes which have so far claimed nearly 80 lives and displaced nearly 5 lakh people are the result of Congress Party’s vote bank politics in Assam. Unless and until Congress desists from indulging in vote bank politics in Assam, the security of the state and the region will remain in danger.
The subsequent violent protests in Mumbai on August 12, too, appear to have been organised as a part of the Congress party’s hidden agenda to communalize the Assam violence.
The BJP has been protesting against infiltrations from across the border. We are for deportation of all the infiltrators and sealing of the border to prevent further infiltrations. I once again reiterate that the vote bank politics indulged in by the Congress is squarely responsible for the large scale infiltration of Bangladeshis and the resultant displacement of Indian citizens in Norh east. People are aware of the fact that it was the Congress which introduced the IMDT Act and provided overt protection to the infiltrators and the same Party later tried to undo the impact of the Supreme Court ruling declaring the IMDT Act as null and void. Congress led UPA is responsible for this situation .
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