& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Bengal wants no part as Delhi cops buckle up

Indian media ditch alien deportation plan

PALLAB BHATTACHARYA, New Delhi
While the Delhi police buckle up to detect and deport 'illegal Bangladeshis and Pakistanis', leading Indian newspapers have dismissed the BJP-led central government's move as unsubstantiated and unwarranted.
Meanwhile, the Left Front government of the West Bengal has
made it clear that it would not attempt to 'throw out' any Bangla-speaking people irrespective of their residence status.
At a rally in Kolkata on Wednesday, Biman Bose, a CPI (M) politburo member said the centre should now concentrate on improving the economy instead of finding out illegal immigrants.
Bengal would help locate illegal
Pakistanis but not work on the Bangla-speaking people, he said.
The centre's move would lead to a major upheaval for the state, he said.
Meanwhile, Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Vijay Kapoor told reporters Wednesday evening that those involved in rag-picking and removing scrap materials would be
FROM PAGE 1
deported as this category is believed to have 'a large number of Bangladeshi migrants'.
Delhi Police Commissioner RS Gupta, who was also present at the news conference, said two thousand Bangladeshis, who had been overstaying in the capital, were deported last year.
A day after the Indian deputy prime minister had suggested deportation of 'illegal migrants', The Hindu, in its editorial, commented that "by raising the illegal immigration issue, LK Advani has reverted to a subject, which evokes obsessive interest and fervent passions within his party".
"The manner in which he (Advani) attempted to link the issue of illegal immigrants with that of internal security was unwarranted, unsubstantiated and insidious.
"The challenges this country faces on the internal security front go well beyond that posed by illegal immigration. For those within the Sangh Parivar, conflating the two issues (of illegal immigration and internal security) has been a customary way of addressing the problem of illegal immigration, thereby giving it a communal colour and an emotive character."
The Hindu also said Advani's call "to throw them out" was "easier said than done, given the enormous nature of the issue."
It said the task of distinguishing between Bangladeshis and (West) Bengalis is far from easy.
"The problem is compounded by the fact that many of the Bangladeshi immigrants now hold ration cards or voters identity cards or both.
"With Dhaka sometimes giving the impression that the steady wave of emigration to India is a figment of New Delhi's imagination, the option of mass-scale deportation is rendered even less realistic."
Meanwhile, The Hindustan Times said it was "important to see the illegal immigration issue for what it is and to refrain from exploiting it in a manner that is political, prejudiced and essentially divisive."
"It is possible that the en masse throw-them-out policy, if implemented, might backfire," it said in an editorial comment.
"If 20 million Bangladeshi migrants are in India, then identifying and deporting them would be near-impossible.
"… there is reason to take the Home Minister's (Advani's) directive to throw out illegal Bangladeshi immigrants with a pinch of salt.
"The Bangladeshi question has been raked up time and again by the Sangh Parivar, often as a political rhetoric."