Students body wants special constitutional status for Assam

Updated on: Thursday, December 10, 2009

Guwahati: The influential All Assam Students Union (AASU) today demanded special constitutional status for Assam with indigenous people's right over land and natural resources, besides deportation of illegal Bangladeshis.

"The illegal Bangladeshis in Assam have been changing the demographic pattern here and are a threat to the nation and the survival of the indigenous people of the state. We want a special Constitutional status," AASU advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya told reporters here.

"We want constitutional safeguards, an economic package under the Assam Accord, an Upper House with representatives from various ethnic communities, introduction of inner line permit system and 100 per cent reservation for locals in the assembly," Bhattacharya said.

"The Union Home Minister had told the Parliament that the demographic pattern in Assam has changed due to illegal Bangladeshis. Then why no steps have been taken to deport them. We warn both the Centre and the state government and the political parties that our agitation would be intensified if
they failed to detect and deport illegal migrants," he said.

"...the Indo-Bangladesh border is not sealed, the National Register of Citizens not updated and even the identified foreigners have disappeared. All the political parties only want Bangladeshi votes," he alleged.

Students body wants special constitutional status for Assam

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