Author: Vrikodar
Publication: India Tomorrow
Date: November 12, 2014
URL: http://www.indiatomorrow.co/nation/2240-who-allowed-illegal-bangladeshi-migrants-to-vote-in-assam-indira-gandhi-did

Even as the country continues to grapple with the menace of illegal Bangladeshi voters in the North East, it would be revealing to discover who allowed them the right to vote, which was nothing less than a secret war upon India’s sovereignty.

None other than the third Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.

Those who are old enough would recall the Assam agitation waged by the state’s students in the 1970s and 1980s to evict foreigners from the state. These foreigners are none other than the illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh, whose slow and steady influx over the years has altered the demographic balance in some districts of Assam, and now threatens to engulf the entire state. This infiltration of Bangladeshi Muslims has been aided and abetted by all ‘secular’ parties beginning from the Congress. It has assumed alarming proportions all over the country and is today one of the most serious security challenges India confronts.

This criminal act of deliberately encouraging illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, providing them with Indian identity documents, ration cards, and even voting rights is the crime the Congress has been indulging in, after independence, an evil that gathered momentum in the seventies with (the late) Indira Gandhi’s silent approval of the move. The gradual build-up of anger in Assam against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants led to the ghastly genocide at Nellie in the state in 1983, known as the infamous ‘Nellie massacre’, in which over 6,000 immigrants were set upon and butchered by the locals.

Assamese, easygoing by nature, are not easily given to religious or ethnic intolerance. Bengalis have been living there for over a hundred years. The problem has been caused the influx of illegal aliens and their use by ‘secular’ politicians for political gain.

Since 1979, the Assam student movement sought negotiations to address the issue. India then had a caretaker government of Charan Singh, which had little time for anything except somehow survive. After the return of Indira Gandhi in 1980, Assam’s students were subjected to insults, threats and intimidation, as well as the frustrations brought on by bureaucratic run-arounds.

Clearly, Indira Gandhi was interested only in stonewalling the issue. She dismissed the government for its 'inability' to contain the problem and imposed 'President's (her direct) rule.' Yet, the issue could not be suppressed. The press clipping of February 1983 clearly reveals what went on then.

In the repeated drama of talks, Mrs. Gandhi kept promising to discuss an election date. When that date was announced, it was a rude surprise to all concerned. Indira cast aside even the pretence of political decency — no opposition groups had been consulted. There were warnings of violence, and Mrs. Gandhi's own advisers warned her that violent trouble would ensue. She was hell-bent on pushing four million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants the right to vote, in order to create a safe an unassailable votebank for her Congress party for then and the future.

The then Prime Minister of India stubbornly insisted on going through the motions of an ‘election’. Her political fortunes were badly sagging. The Congress had been routed in the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, long considered her strongholds. The Nellie massacre that followed, which would be surpassed only by a genocide — of the Sikh citizens of our country, carried out by her own party’s thugs when she fell to the bullets of assassins. That genocide was shamelessly justified by her son, who was hurriedly coronated as Prime Minister, with the utterly shameful phrase: “When a big tree falls, the earth does shake”.

Indira Gandhi was directly responsible for the horrendous Assam riots because of her stonewalling of a grave political issue, responded in typical British colonial fashion by sending police and the army and by blaming all on 'extremists' and 'hooligans.'

Mrs. Gandhi told the Financial Times in an interview in February 1983 that her government “would wait until the situation in Assam cooled down” before taking the next step to resolve a crisis in which thousands of people had just been killed.

The Indian prime minister had blithely said that she had “no plan as such” to resolve the crisis. She coolly blamed the problems of illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh as “dating back to Indian partition in 1947” (a partition in which her party, the Congress is culpable) and stonily added “and we can’t just wish that away”. Indira Gandhi then shifted the blame to Bangladesh, which in her opinion, ought to take back migrants who had entered India when their country was being created (out of Pakistan) in a 1971 war.

Beyond that, Indira blandly said that her government “would wait” (Financial Times; February 25, 1983). Her secular successors, both in the Congress and in other parties, have vied with one another to reduce India's internal security and polity to tatters in their naked, anti-national pursuit of the Islamic vote. The growing jihadi menace in West Bengal, its shameless appeasement by another secular politician Mamata Banerjee, growing incidents like the recent Burdwan bomb blasts, the slowly changing demographic balance in many parts of India's northeast, and the rising jihadi menace from Bangladesh and increasing atrocities against Hindus are all a fallout of the anti-national votebank policies aided and abetted by India's thid prime minister and her coterie of sycophants.