SILCHAR, April 8: BJP’s promise to provide Indian citizenship to the displaced Bengali-Hindu who had been forced to take shelter in India even after March 25, 1971, was nothing but an electoral gimmick. This was stated by Sahidul Alom Chowdhury, whose party AGP had inked treaty of alliance with the saffron party in Asom. Sahidul who was a powerful Minister in erstwhile Prafulla Mahanta in the State, had categorically said that, neither the Hindu nor the Muslims who had came from Bangladesh could be pushed to the original land. “When Atal Behari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister, the then Chief Minister Mahanta and myself once met him to discuss the infiltration issue and Vajpayee himself told us that even the Muslim intruders living here for last few years could not sent back”, claiming this Sahidul, who had been deputed in Silchar as party observer by the AGP central committee, said BJP’s stand point on Bengali-Hindu infiltrators was its own agenda, and the AGP had its own agenda on infiltration issue. He said, in no case the infiltration issue could be seen in religious lines as the Assam Accord had clear guidelines in the context.
Sahidul, in spite of being deputed as party observer, had not met the BJP leaders here though he stayed in Silchar for couple of days. He however said that, he would come back to Silchar within a few days to campaign for BJP candidate Kabindra Purkayastha.
Refuting the claim made by the district BJP leaders that the Bengali-Hindu refugee issue was discussed with the AGP before finalizing the alliance, Sahidul Alom said, this issue never did figure in the discussion. THE SENTINEL
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