Quote of the Week

Tarun Gogoi, Chief Minister of Assam, speaking at a rally in Guwahati on 9th April 2011:

There are no illegal Bangladeshi migrants in the state..

Hon. Shri Tarun Gogoi, Chief Minister of Assam

I presume they have all either already acquired legal citizenship or voters’ identity cards OR they have “migrated” to other parts of India – including Mumbai – where they mingle so well with the native population that they are rarely targeted as “outsiders”.

Past quotes are here

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B Shantanu

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6 Responses

  1. Madhusudan says:

    It seems all of them are his close relatives (relatives of power and of money- because that is the only relationship that is strong in this era).

    How can he call them illegal when they are his relatives. Ha ha

  2. yayaver says:

    That is a blatant lie.

    A quarter century post the Assam Accord, political parties in the state still seek votes on the issue of illegal Bangladeshi immigration…

    http://www.tehelka.com/story_main49.asp?filename=Ne090411ELECTIONS.asp

  3. Madhusudan says:

    I came across this link, while browsing through yahoo news, which you will find interesting. something fishy in the last lines, which is not properly reported.

    http://in.news.yahoo.com/mizo-man-39-wives-94-children-33-grandchildren-20110220-022600-883.html

  4. B Shantanu says:

    Looks like some of these “legal” Bangladeshi migrants may have found their way to Bengaluru…
    Courtesy my friend Sanjay, this amazing news-story:
    BANGALORE: The Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) had issued security passes to 11 labourers who entered Vidhana Soudha by concealing their real identities. This was unearthed by police in charge of security of the state secretariat.
    “We seized the passes and surrendered these to the DPAR officials, who are the final authority on issuing entry passes,” an officer told Express, on condition of anonymity.
    ..
    Explaining how they discovered the gaffe, an officer explained: “Our plainclothes men overheard the labourers arguing why only three particular painters were assigned the third floor, that too near the Cabinet hall. And, though they had all given Hindu names, the workers greeted each other in the Islamic tradition. On checking the files pertaining to the passes, no Muslim names were found. After making enquiries, the truth came out.”
    DPAR officials, it seems, did not question them even after the workers gave Hindu names but mentioned the Muslim name of their father. For instance, Mehboob Atiulla had given his name as M Singh but his father’s name as Atiulla.
    An officer said, “It is not that they are suspicious. But it is not clear why they hid their identities.”

    ***
    P.S. As some of you may know already, illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh frequently adopt “Hindu” names to better mix with the local population and avoid identification…

  5. Donie says:

    Another one like the “Amazing News Story”,

    Last year there was a announcement in Dubai about Slum kids from Bangladesh to be educated free in Dubai by Global Indian International School GIIS Dubai. It is still available on the 7days website

    http://www.7days.ae/storydetails.php?id=91789&title=Slum%20kids%20offered%20fr
    ee%20education


    Slum children from one of the poorest countries in the world have been given a golden opportunity to fulfil their dreams after a Dubai school came forward to offer free scholarships.

    The Global Indian International School (GIIS) in Bur Dubai has agreed to waive the annual dhs 20,500 tuition fees to give seven Bangladeshi youngsters the chance of an education.

    GIIS teamed up with The Dhaka Project – a charitable foundation run in Bangladesh’s capital by Dubai-based Emirates air stewardess Maria Conceicao.

    The organisation runs a school of its own on a shoestring budget with 600 pupils on roll as well as offering training and support for the local community’s poorest people.

    There was something odd about this project, why Bangladeshi kids were sponsored into Dubai under the name of an Indian school. It is different from supporting a child’s education in their own third world country (e.g. “CRY” does that). Definitely odd…. and no trace of it now other than that report !

  6. The NIA is on the trail of two Bangladeshi students in relation to the Delhi High Court blast: (16 Oct 2011)

    http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Delhi-HC-blast-NIA-on-trail-of-2-Bangla-students/860465/