New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit the Bangladesh border in Assam within this month to take stock of the situation arising out of illegal migration into the northeastern state.
“Within this month, after August 15 and before August 30, I will visit Assam and tour the Bangladesh border,” Rajnath Singh said yesterday at a seminar here on “30 years of the Assam accord: Issues, challenges and implementation” organised by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU).
Rajnath Singh said the government would do everything possible for the full implementation of the Assam Accord that was signed on August 15, 1985, between the Centre, the Assam government, AASU and the All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad to end a six-year-long movement in protest against illegal migration.
Paying tributes to the martyrs of the Assam agitation, Singh said: “I can assure you that only Indians will stay in India.”
He said work on updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was being done under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court.
Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who is also a former AASU president, said that though the accord will complete 30 years on August 15, many clauses have still not been implemented.
“The main aim of the Assam Accord was to stop illegal migration and safeguard the identity of the indigenous people,” Sonowal said.
Sonowal requested the home minister to take steps so that illegal migration does not take place in areas like Karimganj in the Barak Valley and Dhubri in the Brahmaputra Valley.
“I request the home minister to visit the border areas with an AASU delegation so that he sees firsthand and necessary steps can be taken,” he said.
IANS
