AASU

Guwahati: The All Assam Studentsโ€™ Union (AASU) on Monday alleged that a large stretch of the India-Bangladesh border in Assamโ€™s Dhubri district has still remained โ€œunfencedโ€.

A team of AASU leaders led by its general secretary Shankar Jyoti Baruah went to the international border in the district on Sunday and expressed their dissatisfaction over the โ€œexposedโ€ boundary

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โ€œWe are shocked to see that the border between India and Bangladesh along the Gangadhar river in Binnachara area near Golakganj is totally exposed,โ€ Baruah said.

He accused both the Centre and the Assam government of making โ€œfalse promises on sealing of the borderโ€ to the Assamese people, he said.

The historic Assam Accord of 1985 has completed its 37th anniversary, and โ€œstill one of its major clauses of total sealing of the Indo-Bangla border remains unfulfilledโ€, Baruah said.

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โ€œThe government has no interest in protecting the Indo-Bangla border, and in fact, the quality of fence in Assam is poor as compared to that of the India-Pakistan boundary,โ€ he alleged.

All promises that the Centre and the state are making about the sealed border and different technologies being used to protect the illegal migration are โ€œfalseโ€, the student leader said.

The AASU demanded that the government should use better scientific methods to seal the exposed border.

The team of the AASUโ€™s central committee members visited the India-Bangladesh boundary between Pillar 1001 and 1031.