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Assam violence divides India

TNN, New Delhi
The volatile debate in both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday on the continuing conflagration in Assam cast the spotlight on "illegal" immigration and the sharp divide it has caused in the state.
Allegations of ethnic cleansing and demographic change marked the sharp exchanges with representatives of Muslim outfits crossing swords with tribal leaders.
In the Lok Sabha, government business was suspended to take up the issue through an adjournment motion moved by BJP leader L K Advani, which was shot down by a voice vote after a five-hour debate.
The debate is significant as illegal immigration from Bangladesh, which had great traction in the 1980s and the 1990s, had appeared to have lost its salience in Assam. However, the current round of violence has belied the assessment that Assam was at ease with the new demographic normal where Muslims are in the majority in several districts of the state.
The debate also brought to the fore fears that the large-scale immigration is a threat to the indigenous people of Assam and their way of life.
S Bwiswamuthiary of Bodoland Peoples' Front objected to the term ethnic cleansing bandied about by Muslim leaders and contended that the unrest in the region was due to "blatant kind of
aggression by illegal hostile Bangladeshi immigrants". He pointed out that earlier, the tribal belts and blocks in Assam were restricted for outsiders.
The member said the population of the Bodoland Territorial Area District was 30 lakh out of which indigenous people comprised 60% and the rest were non-Bodo communities.
Bwiswamuthiary said that if the Centre did not check illegal migration from Bangladesh, there would soon be a Bangladesh-occupied Assam on the lines of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
His colleague Biswajit Daimary alleged that foreign forces were creating problems in Assam and the northeast.
Saugata Roy of Trinamool Congress opposed the adjournment motion moved by Advani accusing him of constantly harping on the problem of illegal immigration and not referring to the people who have been uprooted from their home and hearth. "The tone and tenor of Advani's speech
will lead to further provocation of violence," he said, urging the House to "reject lock, stock and barrel" the adjournment motion.
Roy, who is minister of state for urban development, took a swipe at Advani saying that he was losing the sharpness he had displayed during his tenure as home minister in the NDA regime. The Trinamool leader contended that perhaps the BJP distancing itself from Advani had made him stray off from his line of thought.
Balbir Punj of BJP, who initiated the discussion in the Rajya Sabha, demanded that infiltrators from Bangladesh should be declared "stateless persons, disfranchised and debarred from owning properties in the stale", a remark which drew sharp criticism from the treasury benches.
Responding to charges that Congress allowed illegal immigration from Bangladesh, Bhubaneswar Kalita said he was "pained" to listen to what Punj spoke. "What message do you want to send? To divide people or unite people? To divide people in distress in terms of religion should not be our approach. We should help the state administration, the people to promote peace. That should be the aim of every political party," the Congress leader said.
In Lok Sabha, home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said a comprehensive security plan had been chalked out to provide fool proof security to the affected population.