Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 07:09 am:

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Mental_sachinodu:

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Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 07:03 am:

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Telugu_times:

Vinay vaaduntay....sugar coat secularists yedhainaa septhaaru.
bhoomi puttaka mundhu nunchi, Bangladeshi illegals issue undhi, Assam lo.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 06:49 am:

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Tilak:

Appatlo .. North East lo Bodo Tribals-Muslims ki riots jarigina sandarbham lo .. evaro asalu illegal migration ledu .. they are muslims from Bengal

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Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 06:15 am:

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Mental_sachinodu:

we never really worry about sovereignty of our nation.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 01:49 am:

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NEW DELHI: Months after the July-August unrest in Assam, the issue of illegal migration continues to dominate the debate on northeast in public space.

In a seminar organized by the Institute for Conflict Management (ICM) here on 'The Multiple Crises of the Northeast", demographic changes in the region arising out of illegal migration from Bangladesh and the question of regional identity was touched upon by almost all speakers.
While former DGP (Punjab Police) KPS Gill said that all communities except illegal migrants in Assam are under threat, former IAS officer Rangan Dutta, who is studying northeast insurgency, said that assertion of identity has to end as it has become a business and that the "northeast disorder" was due to autonomy granted to various regions.

Other suggestions included improving trade between Assam and Bangladesh as also identifying Bangladeshi migrants and denying them economic and political space if India is unable to deport them.

Gill, who has also served extensively in the northeast, said, "Assam is a tragedy waiting to happen. In Assam, all communities are under threat except illegal migrants. Identity (of the local population) has to be protected. However, both the state and the center have failed to do this."

Gill also blamed the local people, whom he called victims, for selling of their land at cheap rates to migrants and then suddenly realizing that they needed to reclaim it leading to violent clashes. "How many people can you kill?" the former IPS officer asked.

Dutta, however, chose to differ on the ground that it was assertion of identity that was the cause of all troubles in the northeast. He also said that illegal migration from Bangladesh would continue given that there was an acute shortage of labour in the northeast compounded by the dwindling numbers of Bihari migrant labour which is increasingly choosing to stay back home thanks to job surplus provided by MGNREGA.

"Political dispensation has given incentives to autonomous councils. This has led to various groups asserting separate identity where elites would corner these benefits. Time has come to end this," he said adding that the region itself was confused over the parameters of identity.

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