BJP, BPF to fight jointly in Assam, will end infiltration: Amit Shah

BJP, BPF to fight jointly in Assam, will end infiltration: Amit Shah

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 06:14 PM IST
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Assam : The BJP and the Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) will jointly fight the assembly polls in Assam, BJP president Amit Shah announced on Wednesday, adding they will end infiltration from Bangladesh if they take power in the state.

Blaming the Congress government in Assam for the continuing infiltration, Shah said the BJP was determined not to let illegals infringe upon the rights of people in Assam and the Bodoland region.

Shah said this at a public rally organised by the BPF to mark Bodoland Day. “Infiltration started in Assam after the Congress resorted to vote bank politics,” Shah said. “The infiltrators from Bangladesh have spread across the state. They have infringed upon the rights of local youths, be they from tea gardens or Hindi-speaking community or Bodoland. “If a BJP-BPF government comes to power in Assam, we are going to ensure that there is no infiltration in Assam,” Shah said. The BJP president termed the alliance between his party and the BPF a historic one and said it will go a long way in ensuring development in the state, and the Bodo areas in particular.

“We have decided to contest the Assam elections together with the BPF. This is not a political decision but one for the development of Bodoland. This is going to be historic for Assam.”

The BPF was earlier allied with the Congress but has moved closer to the BJP ahead of assembly polls.

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