Shouldn’t encourage Bangladeshi Hindus emigrate to India: HImanta Biswa Sarma

“It’s true that Hindus from Bangladesh migrated right here previously however they don’t seem to be coming now. They’re dealing with the current scenario maturely and we should always not encourage them to go away their nation,” Sarma advised reporters on Wednesday, stressing that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was working extra time to make sure their security in Bangladesh.

There have been stories of assaults on the properties, companies and temples of the Hindu minority in several elements of Bangladesh after Sheikh Hasina stepped down in August final 12 months and fled to India. New Delhi has taken a severe word of those incidents and shared its considerations with Dhaka.

In Assam, there have been a string of protests over the previous couple of months towards the assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh main a number of organisations just like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal to demand shelter for Hindus of Bangladesh in Assam.

On December 30, Rashtriya SwayamSevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak Suman Kumar requested the central authorities to permit Hindus from Bangladesh to take refuge in India.

On Wednesday, the chief minister mentioned almost 1,000 folks from Bangladesh had been caught in Assam during the last 5 months, and an identical quantity in neighbouring Tribpura, however none of them have been Hindus from Bangladesh.

As a substitute, Sarma mentioned, it was primarily the folks working in Bangladesh’s textiles sector who have been coming to India for jobs within the nation’s textiles business.

“After the unrest in Bangladesh, the textiles business nearly collapsed there. So the labourers who have been working in these industries began coming to India. Many textile business house owners in our nation began incentivising them and spent cash to import a budget labourers from Bangladesh,” he mentioned.

“That is an alarming situation as a result of we by no means detected this a lot infiltrators previously. The bulk group is extra affected in Bangladesh, who’re minorities right here. We aren’t arresting them, we don’t wish to fill our jails with them, so pushing them again,” he mentioned.

Final 12 months, Sarma mentioned Bangladeshi infiltrators have been going to Tamilnadu and different South Indian states to search out work in textiles models.

He additionally expressed concern over China’s proposed dam on Brahmaputra. “If the dam is constructed, Brahmaputra will dry and the stream shall be depending on rain in Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan. Now we have raised this concern earlier than the central authorities,” he mentioned.

On his latest go to to Bhutan, Sarma mentioned, “Now we have mentioned water associated tasks, enhancing street and railway connectivity and so forth. The Prime Minister of Bhutan has been invited to our enterprise summit and the Bhutan King has assured that he’d go to Assam once more.”