Itanagar : This is further to our report on the Illegal Immigrants problem in Arunachal Pradesh. People from all segments of life led by the students of Arunachal have come together to protect Arunachalis from the illegal migrants of Bangladesh.
Its quit Arunachal by 10th of July or face the consequences and the results are amazing. There was large scale immigration out of Arunachal and where have they taken shelter... Assams Lakhimpur District. Around 10,000 illegal Bagladeshi immigrants moved out of Arunachal Pradesh today and landed in Assam. The move is widely supported by the people of Arunachal Pradesh.
The Government of Assam has not commented on this till now. It is felt in Lakhimpur that the Goverment will only keep silent on the issue and Lakhimpur will be hard pressed to deal with this problem.
PermalinkSubmitted by YK Shrestha on Fri, 01/08/2008 - 17:31
At this rate, one day whole of NE will become a part of Bangladesh. Assam and North Bengal are the ones which are hit badly by the influx of Bangladeshis. Soon, the indigeneous people of Assam and North Bengal would be in minority.
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