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Governance has ceased in Assam: BJP

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Press Trust of India Guwahati

"We believe that governance has vanished from Assam and only a ministry exists. A kind of anarchy is prevalent in the state," BJP National Vice-President and Lok Sabha MP Bijoya Chakravarty told reporters here.

She said while the Chief Minister describes the current situation in Assam as normal, tension prevails in Dhubri and almost a lakh people displaced during the recent ethnic clashes in lower Assam still live in camps.

"Over 7,000 bighas of land of satras (Vaishnavite monasteries) have been encroached by Bangladeshi infiltrators. Almost 50 per cent of the area of Kaziranga National Park has also been encroached similarly," she said.

 

"Locals and Indian nationals are not safe in Assam. In places like Dhubri, people are not even being allowed to celebrate festivals like Durga Puja due to attacks by miscreants," she rued.

The BJP leader said 36,000 illegal immigrants, declared to be Bangladeshi nationals by Foreigners' Tribunals, have disappeared.

"How have they managed to vanish. Whose interest is being served by the Tarun Gogoi government," Chakravarty posed.

  

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First Published: Oct 28 2012 | 9:15 PM IST

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