20/01/2023
Assam government controlled by Bangladeshi immigrants, claims Supreme Court lawyer Upamanyu Hazarika
The stand of the BJP Government in Assam is not that of one elected on the promise of protecting the identity, land of indigenous people, rather that of a Government controlled by Bangladeshi immigrants.

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Assam government controlled by Bangladeshi immigrants, claims Supreme Court lawyer Upamanyu Hazarika
Assam government controlled by Bangladeshi immigrants, claims Supreme Court lawyer Upamanyu Hazarika
The stand of the BJP Government in Assam is not that of one elected on the promise of protecting the identity, land of indigenous people, rather that of a Government controlled by Bangladeshi immigrants.
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Assam government controlled by Bangladeshi immigrants, claims Upamanyu Hazarika
The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court is taking up for final hearing from 14th of February the question whether the cut off date for grant of citizenship to migrants/infiltrators from erstwhile East Pakistan/Bangladesh should be 19th July 1948, as prevalent for rest of India ( Article 6 of Constitution) or should it be 25th March 1971 in terms of the Assam Accord of 15th August 1985 and the consequent amendment in the Citizenship Act, 1955 by insertion of Section 6A giving a statutory status to the cut off date of 25th March 1971.
The stand of the BJP Government in Assam is not that of one elected on the promise of protecting the identity, land of indigenous people, rather that of a Government controlled by Bangladeshi immigrants. The State Government in an earlier affidavit filed during the tenure of the Congress Government, where Himanta Biswa Sarma was the Assam Accord Implementation Minister, had supported the cut off date of 25th March, 1971, which stand is reiterated in the written submission filed by the present BJP Government on 1st of May 2017. There
