Guwahati: Union home minister rajnath singh on wednesday assured the all assam students’ union (aasu) that all the clauses of assam accord would be implemented in a time-bound manner as the government of india was committed to provide constitutional and economic safeguard to the indigenous people of assam.
Chairing a tri-partite meeting on implementation of assam accord which was signed in 1985 as a culmination of assam agitation against illegal migrants from bangladesh, in new delhi in presence of assam chief minister sarbananda sonowal, rajnath singh told the aasu delegation that they were free to contact him directly at any point of time regarding implementation of any clause of assam accord.
He said a tripartite committee would be set up with representatives of the aasu, government of assam and government of india to formulate a time-bound action plan for implementation of assam accord in toto.
The union home minister further assured aasu delegation to complete on-going work to seal the india-bangladesh border soon to stop infiltration across the border.
The aasu leader dr samujjal bhattacharrya informed that the students body particularly stressed on implementation of the clause 6 and 7 of assam accord that grants constitutional and economic safeguard to the indigenous people of the state who are under threat from unabated illegal migration from bangladesh.
Terming the talks as meaningful, chief minister sonowal said, “we have started a meaningful and good beginning to the implementation of assam accord. Today’s talks have ended on a positive note, as we have discussed in detail clause-wise time bound implementation of the accord for providing constitutional and economic safeguards to the people of assam.”
The chief minister further informed that in the coming days political and official level engagements will continue for implementation of all clauses of the accord within a stipulated time frame.
The tripartite talks which lasted for nearly 45 minutes discussed the process of nrc updation exercise to weed out the names of illegal immigrants, complete sealing of the porous border on a war footing including riverine areas to prevent influx of illegal immigrants once and for all.
Revival of ashok paper mill, tackling the recurrent flood and erosion problem, protection of the riverine island majuli from the fury of the brahmaputra, revamping the brahmaputra board, setting up of new institutions were some of the other issues that came up during the discussions.
The last tripartite talks on assam accord implementation was at the prime minister’s level way back in may 5, 2005. (With some inputs from uni)
