“We want the BJP to hold true to its promise and find all illegal Bangladeshis and deport them back,” AICC national spokesman and Assam MP Gaurab Gogoi told reporters here on Thursday.
Stating that the Congress’s stand on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 is very clear, he however recalled the prime minister who had stated that after 16 May, all Bangladeshi people who are staying illegally in India will be deported.
“We want to ask the prime minister that you had several meetings with the Bangladesh government, how many illegal Bangladeshi identified in North East India and how many have been deported,” he said.
“In fact instead of deporting the illegal Bangladeshis, your (Narendra Modi) policy seems to be completely just the opposite and this will have an impact on the local demography and the local culture,” he added.
Also demanding the Centre to respect the Assam Accord, Gogoi said, “We want the Assam Accord to remain in tact.”
The Assam Accord (1985) was a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) signed between the Government of India and leaders of the Assam Movement in New Delhi on 15 August 1985.
It focused on two major issues, detecting and deporting Bangladeshi infiltrators and providing constitutional safeguards to indigenous communities of Assam.
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