anil wrote:Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:Mamata Banerjee is once again being a jerk, NRC is supposed to be routing out all illegal immigrants and so the registration is being done which people should be actually supporting and not opposing. But Congress, leftists and all their allies who only had power and still some remain by appeasing Muslims and opposing NRC is once again for the sake of appeasing these so-called minorities, even if they happen to Bangladeshis and Rohingyas!
Mamata and all other opposition parties are doing only politics. These illegal immigrants come to India in 1971. In 1985 Rajeev Gandhi done agreement with Assam leaders to trace illegal immigrants and push back them. If Rajeev Gandhi and subsequent government focus on this issue than country have not any problem. But at present it is very hard work to push back these immigrants.
I doubt if the congress government really tried hard to get rid of illegal immigrants after Indira as they constituted their vote bank. In 1998, when Maharashtra was ruled by Shivsena CM Manohar Joshi, there were several attempts to push illegal Bangladeshis living in Mumbai but were thwarted by the leftists ruling WB. In one incident on 23 July 1998, the 8029 DN Howrah-Kurla Express which was carrying 34 illegal Bangladeshis escorted by 14 policemen of Maharashtra, was stopped at Uluberia, 65 km from Kolkata, by a mob of 9000 who snatched away the 34 prisoners and later on set them free. The police tried firing rounds but were no match for the thousands of the goons. The MH police were later rescued by WB police. The prisoners were being escorted on the orders of Bombay High Court to be deported to Bangladesh in the border town of Bongaon. This mob was spearheaded by Rabin Ghosh, a Forward Bloc MLA representing Uluberia, who was a part of the WB leftist government.
The next day, same thing happened again. As the Kurla Express entered Kharagpur station, the West Bengal Police intervened. They asked their counterparts from Maharashtra to quietly hand over the 38 prisoners before another mob decided on "direct action."
Later on , many ugly allegations and angry discussed happened with the WB government claiming that the Bangladeshis were not Bangladeshis but Muslims from WB which was actually not the case. What is significant in this is that the leftists were trying hard to secure their Muslim vote bank, no matter based on illegal immigrants but were trying to score a point against the BJP government at the centre and Shivsena in Maharashtra as Shivsena was really driving a hard campaign to rid the country of illegal immigrants who were the biggest troublemakers. Now Mamata is doing the same thing what her leftist predecessors has done and once again bringing her own state and the country closer to chaos.