GUWAHATI, Sept 23 � The solution to the problem of infiltration from Bangladesh should be found within the framework of the Constitution and the law of the country. The Constitution of India has very well defined the basic qualifications for the citizenship of the country while all civil laws and land and revenue regulations of the State have fully protected the rights of the indigenous people.
Explaining the steps to be taken for expulsion of the Bangladeshi infiltrators from Assam and other neighbouring States, senior journalist DN Chakravartty has said that instead of relying on the corrupt and inefficient Border Security Force (BSF), the Government of India should commission the services of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the Assam Rifles and the Indian Army and deploy their battalions for protecting the border.
Chakravartty also suggested that to break the bastion of the foreigners inside Assam, stringent measures should be taken against all those persons harbouring, protecting and sheltering the Bangladeshi infiltrators in the territory of Assam. �All those persons defending the cause of the foreigners should be held responsible under the Sedition Act,� he added.
Chakravartty said that if an ordinary and innocent cartoonist could be hauled up by invoking the Sedition Act, �it is not understood why persons like Badaruddin Ajmal holding brief for Bangladeshi infiltrators should not be caught inviting the application of the Indian Sedition Act.�
Chakravartty said that the existing Indo-Bangladesh boundary fencing was purely moonshine against the invading army of Bangladeshi infiltrators, and, therefore, the boundary fencing should be built in the pattern of the system erected on the Indo-Pakistan border even by electrically surging the boundary fencing.
Chakravartty said that the Army should be given orders to shoot at sight any infiltrator trespassing into the Indian territory and permanent curfew should be imposed all along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
