Kanchan Gupta - How come Muslim population galloping in restricted tribal areas of Kokrajhar in Assam?

Congress encouraged illegal immigration from Bangladesh into Assam for votes. Assam has paid a huge price for this. So shall India. Congress rules Assam with illegal immigrant Muslim votes. Bodos have done nothing wrong by striking back. Can't blame them. Border districts of Bengal have sufficient illegal Muslim immigrant votes to make Hindus irrelevant. CPM's copy cat act helped Mamata win. Congress thought it was being clever in Assam. It has only helped create a lebensraum for Bangladeshi Muslims. Media whitewashes this crime.

Palash R Ghosh Assam, located on the extreme northeastern edge of India, is home to some 300 tribal and ethnic groups, with many segments of the population agitating for separatism. In this volatile mix is unwanted Muslim migrants from impoverished Bangladesh. The Bodos are one of Assams largest indigenous tribes -- they have fought not only with Muslim migrants, but battled the state of India in a bid to gain an independent state through a decades-long insurgency. Illegal immigration from overcrowded Bangladesh presents challenges for all of eastern India, which shares a porous border with the smaller nation. Since the 1971 war of independence that created the state of Bangladesh, millions of Bangladeshi immigrants (the vast majority of them illegal) have poured into neighboring India. While the Indian government has tried to deport some of these immigrants, their sheer numbers have made such an enterprise impossible. It is difficult to assess how many illegal immigrants are currently residing in India. Consider that in 1971, during the civil war in neighboring East Pakistan (the former name of Bangladesh), at least 10 million Bangladeshis poured into West Bengal in India. The majority of those migrants were Hindus fleeing persecution (rape, murder, forced conversion, etc.) from Muslims. In subsequent years, the bulk of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh were Muslims seeking to escape poverty. India's Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran said last summer that almost 1.4 million illegal Bangladeshis have migrated to India over the past decade alone.

Ramachandran described the illegal immigration from Bangladesh as a "big problem" and that the government is dealing with it.