Governor’s report rocks Assam

A citizens’ meeting has also appreciated Governor Sinha’s report, at the same time criticizing those quarters which have lambasted the Governor for reopening the sensitive issue of influx. Assam Sahitya Sabha President Dr Nagen Saikia, a scholar of repute and a Professor in the Dibrugarh University, in a letter to the Governor, said the apprehensions of the Assamese people, that they would be wiped out by continuous influx of people from Bangladesh, have got “the most powerful projection” in his report.CongratulatingGovernor Sinha for his bold recommendations, the Sabha President also said that Sinha has taken a “bold step” to save Assam and thereby the sovereignty of India.

The citizens’ meeting held here yesterday on the other hand, dismissed allegations of some political parties that the Governor was trying to rake up communal tensions, and said that Sinha, as Governor was entitled to keep the Centre abreast of any social, political or economic development in the State.

But the UMF, and more particularly its President and Lok Sabha member Afa Golam Osmani, said Sinha had over-stepped his constitutional authority. The Governor Sinha’s report was uncalled for and was part of a deep-rooted conspiracy to bring back the pre-Assam accord situation, by taking advantage of the “non-secular” BJP-led regime at the Centre.

Afa Golam Osmani, whose party believes that there has been no influx from Bangladesh and that the whole game was to disturb and harass the religious minority, also termed Sinha as partisan andsectarian.

“He (Governor Sinha) should be stopped from doing further mischief, and I urge the President of India to immediately recall him,” the UMF President Osmani said.