Guwahati, Friday, March 4, 2005
Aliens taught Assamese before pushed into State
From Our Staff Correspondent
DIBRUGARH, March 3 � That a systematic design is on in Bangladesh to push in its people into India came to light after three illegal Bangladeshi immigrants confessed before the police here yesterday that they are taught to speak Assamese before they sneak into Assam. A more disturbing fact they revealed is that they are told in Bangladesh that they would secure political patronage here as long as they vote for a particular national political party.
On Wednesday, the police here arrested three Bangladeshi nationals after a tip-off. They were all working as masons at a private campus in the Jiban Phukan Nagar locality here. Of the three, one is a juvenile, who subsequently told the police that he is from the Rongpur area of north Bangladesh, and that he and some others sneaked into Assam three months ago. The two others, in their late twenties, continued to tell the police that they are from Goalpara!
But the cat was out of the bag when the juvenile told the police that the two others are also from Bangladesh. The three are likely to be deported in the next few days. In the past few months, there has been a spurt in the number of suspected Bangladeshi nationals in the city. They speak a smattering
of Assamese, and tell inquisitive people that they are from Barpeta or Goalpara or some other lower Assam towns. These people are mostly engaged in manual labour, rickshaw pulling, etc, and live in shanties in the Lalukagaon and Graham Bazar localities here. The police say they are helpless in detecting and deporting them as these people invariably have some document or the other to prove their �Indian� identity. But sources said these documents could be either forged or issued with malicious intent, and that �case to case investigations� are on.
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