Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that a CBI inquiry into the Assam violence has been initiated and the Army put on alert. In his reply to the debate on the issue of violence in Assam that has so far claimed 74 lives,Shinde said,The government is taking this issue very seriously. A CBI team has gone there and an inquiry has started. However,with the opposition alleging that the region was not safe because of vote bank politics by the ruling Congress,an angry Shinde replied,I have instructed the Army to be on alert. What else do you want? Speaking on the issue before Shindes reply,Leader of the Opposition Arun Jaitley asked the government to have a re-look at its vote-bank policy and start identifying the real problem of illegal infiltration that was causing unrest in the area. If you adopt the original line of Gopinath Bordoloi (who wanted the cultural and linguistic identity of the North East to be safeguarded) India will be safe. he said.
