More on Assam issue

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Some Excerpts

What is far harder to dismiss is the Congress’ contribution to the build-up of tension over the years through its cynical exploitation of minority politics, which manifests itself in its refusal to acknowledge that illegal immigration is a problem. As Assam’s Sentinel newspaper noted in an editorial, the Congress has over the years been responsible for “changing the demographic profile of the state and making the minorities a majority community… (because of unabated influx of Bangladeshis with geometric population growth) in several districts.”

And that cynical project, of actively feeding off minority politics, continues to this day.

In that sense, Digvijaya Singh is right. Assam is no Gujarat, but not for the reasons that he’s cited.  Assam is far worse than Gujarat: perhaps not in terms of the cynical arithmetic of the death toll from one episode of riots, but in the manner in which the Congress has milked ‘minority politics’ in Assam for years and years and deliberately downplayed the security risks from the unchecked illegal immigration from Bangladesh.