By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The BJP on Monday made a fervent appeal to students and professionals from Meghalaya to return back to their respective educational institutions and job places in various parts of the country, while blaming Congress vote bank politics for the recent crisis in some states while led to a mass exodus of Northeasterners over fears of retaliatory attacks.
“Despite being in power in several states and the Centre for many years, the Congress never took any serious steps to address the problem of illegal immigration. The fact is that the Congress has patronised the illegal migrants for the sake of building their vote banks,” said BJP Mumbai president Raj K Purohit, who is part of the four-member delegation which is on a goodwill mission to the State.
Stating that majority of the illegal migrant who have migrate into the country are hardcore fundamentalist, Purohit said the migrants were trying give a ‘communal colour’ to the recent clashes which had taken place in Assam.
“By threatening the students and professional of the region, the illegal immigrants are attempting to create hatred and bitterness in the country,” Purohit said, while adding that there were nine reported cases of attacks against the people from the region in Pune while another 11 such cases were reported in Bangalore.
Insisting that the attacks against the people from the region were not serious in nature, he said that as per the information they have collected, most of these attacks have been in the form of slaps or verbal threats.
Purohit also said that these attacks against the NE people were hyped by certain vested interests by way of SMSes and blown up on social networking sites.
“People started to receive SMSes that people from the region were likely to be attacked after the Id-ul-Fitre celebrations, resulting in the mass exodus of the people of the region to their respective home states,” the BJP Mumbai president said.
Assuring that the party would provide all possible help to the students and professionals for their safe return to their work places, he informed that a special train has been organised with the consent of the Assam Government from Guwahati to Bangalore on September 1.
“The respective state governments of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have taken all possible steps to ensure the security of the people from the region,” he said.