Advani was NOT an immigrant - since he came from Lahore in India to Delhi in India - in 1947 - before India's Partition and Pakistan's creation.
Umesh
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Illegal influx biggest threat to nation: Advani
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NEW DELHI, July 26 Asserting that illegal immigration was the biggest threat to national security, Opposition today made a scathing attack in the Lok Sabha on the Congress-led coalition charging it with attempting to bring IMDT Act in a different form to perpetuate its votebank politics, reports PTI. Initiating a discussion on an adjournment motion on the issue of infiltration from Bangladesh in eastern parts of the country, leader of the Opposition L K Advani said the votebank politics had become biggest disaster for the country.
This is the first adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha since the Congress-led UPA came to power 14 months back. Noting that the continued aggression from Bangladesh had been on for several years since independence, Advani hailed as historic the Supreme Court judgment striking down the controversial Act which had been in force since 198! 3. He said it was a victory for people of Assam.
He said the late Indrajit Gupta, who was the Home Minister in the United Front Government in 1996-98, had told Parliament that there were one crore people from Bangladesh residing illegally in India.
He said the magnitude of the problem could have grown much more in the last eight years.
Advani demanded that Government should accept the apex court judgement and implement it in letter and spirit.
The BJP chief said the fact that a Group of Ministers was set up by the Centre make the people of Assam suspect that the Congress was trying to bring some other version of IMDT Act through the backdoor. I will like to caution this government against any such move.
Quoting extensively from the Supreme Court judgment, Advani said the presence of such a large number of illegal migrants from Bangladesh, which runs into millions, is in fact an aggression on the state of Assam.
The apex court, he s! aid, held that by persisting with this discriminatory law the Government of India has failed to discharge its duty to protect the State from external aggression and internal disturbance.
Advani also quoted from a speech made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he was Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha in which he had expressed concern over the infiltration.
Rebutting Advanis contentions, Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee asserted that the gross misuse of the Foreigners Act had led to enactment of the IMDT Act.
He said the cut-off date of March 25, 1971, was decided after an agreement between then Bangladesh President Mujibur Rahman and then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Quoting figures, Mukherjee pointed out that out of 3.68 lakh cases handled by IMDT tribunals, only over 11,000 persons were detected as foreigners and deported. The tribunals under the Foreigners Act had dealt with over 5.17 lakh cases and declared about 28,000 as for! eigners.
He said the tribunals under the IMDT could not function properly due to lack of infrastructure.
Reacting to BJP charge that Congress was interested in having the IMDT Act to garner minority votes, Mukherjee said his party was not in power for long time in Assam as well as at the Centre, indicating why those in power like the Asom Gana Parishad in the state and BJP at the Centre did not do away with the law. Let us not do politics on this issue.
Participating in the discussion, Dr Arun Sarma (AGP) said that India is the only country in the world without an NRC. He demanded that the NRC of 1951 should be updated and the Assam Accord should be implemented immediately. He demanded that there should not be any dilution of the Supreme Court verdict and it should be implemented immediately.
Anowar Hussain (Cong) said that the minorities were apprehensive after the scrapping of the IMDT Act. He also demanded that the Foreigners Act should be amended. However, at the same time, he called for updating of the NRC.
Narayan Borkotoky (BJP) said that the Assamese people have become minorities in their own land because of unabated infiltration of foreigners. He also called for updating the NRC immediately.
Kirip Chaliha (Cong) admitted that infiltration of foreigners has become a cause of concern not only for the North eastern region but for the entire country.
NEW DELHI, July 26 Asserting that illegal immigration was the biggest threat to national security, Opposition today made a scathing attack in the Lok Sabha on the Congress-led coalition charging it with attempting to bring IMDT Act in a different form to perpetuate its votebank politics, reports PTI. Initiating a discussion on an adjournment motion on the issue of infiltration from Bangladesh in eastern parts of the country, leader of the Opposition L K Advani said the votebank politics had become biggest disaster for the country.
This is the first adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha since the Congress-led UPA came to power 14 months back. Noting that the continued aggression from Bangladesh had been on for several years since independence, Advani hailed as historic the Supreme Court judgment striking down the controversial Act which had been in force since 198! 3. He said it was a victory for people of Assam.
He said the late Indrajit Gupta, who was the Home Minister in the United Front Government in 1996-98, had told Parliament that there were one crore people from Bangladesh residing illegally in India.
He said the magnitude of the problem could have grown much more in the last eight years.
Advani demanded that Government should accept the apex court judgement and implement it in letter and spirit.
The BJP chief said the fact that a Group of Ministers was set up by the Centre make the people of Assam suspect that the Congress was trying to bring some other version of IMDT Act through the backdoor. I will like to caution this government against any such move.
Quoting extensively from the Supreme Court judgment, Advani said the presence of such a large number of illegal migrants from Bangladesh, which runs into millions, is in fact an aggression on the state of Assam.
The apex court, he s! aid, held that by persisting with this discriminatory law the Government of India has failed to discharge its duty to protect the State from external aggression and internal disturbance.
Advani also quoted from a speech made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he was Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha in which he had expressed concern over the infiltration.
Rebutting Advanis contentions, Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee asserted that the gross misuse of the Foreigners Act had led to enactment of the IMDT Act.
He said the cut-off date of March 25, 1971, was decided after an agreement between then Bangladesh President Mujibur Rahman and then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Quoting figures, Mukherjee pointed out that out of 3.68 lakh cases handled by IMDT tribunals, only over 11,000 persons were detected as foreigners and deported. The tribunals under the Foreigners Act had dealt with over 5.17 lakh cases and declared about 28,000 as for! eigners.
He said the tribunals under the IMDT could not function properly due to lack of infrastructure.
Reacting to BJP charge that Congress was interested in having the IMDT Act to garner minority votes, Mukherjee said his party was not in power for long time in Assam as well as at the Centre, indicating why those in power like the Asom Gana Parishad in the state and BJP at the Centre did not do away with the law. Let us not do politics on this issue.
Participating in the discussion, Dr Arun Sarma (AGP) said that India is the only country in the world without an NRC. He demanded that the NRC of 1951 should be updated and the Assam Accord should be implemented immediately. He demanded that there should not be any dilution of the Supreme Court verdict and it should be implemented immediately.
Anowar Hussain (Cong) said that the minorities were apprehensive after the scrapping of the IMDT Act. He also demanded that the Foreigners Act should be amended. However, at the same time, he called for updating of the NRC.
Narayan Borkotoky (BJP) said that the Assamese people have become minorities in their own land because of unabated infiltration of foreigners. He also called for updating the NRC immediately.
Kirip Chaliha (Cong) admitted that infiltration of foreigners has become a cause of concern not only for the North eastern region but for the entire country.
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