AASU alleges voting rights for migrants' childrens

All Assam Students Uniuon has alleged that the children of illegal migrants who sneaked in to the state from across the border in 1986 are being given voting rights.

Talking to media people here on Wednesday, advisor of the powerful Assam students body Dr Samujjal Bhattacharjee has brought a serious allegation against the governments that it have been insisting the children of those illegal migrants, who came to the state up to 2004, be also given voting rights.

The organisation further also accused the government of failing to seal the Indo-Bangladesh border by March 31 as it was promised earlier.

The influential All Assam Students Union (AASU) has blamed the central and state governments for their failure in implementing the Assam Accord, solve the foreigners problem and seal the Indo-Bangladesh border.

Dr Bhattacharya alleged that the government has failing to implement the clause-wise time-frame action plans and that no steps are in progress to upgrade the National Register of Citizens.

Twenty yeas have passed sicne the Asam Accord was signed and yet the names of the 1966-71 batch of illegal foreigners were not deleted from the electoral rolls.
The students organisation will observe a statewide 10-hour fast on March 25 in oin protest against the governments' failures to implement the Accord.