Aasu seeks meeting with Modi to discuss illegal immigrants issue

Guwahati | Thursday | 9th August, 2018

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The most influential students' body in the northeast has now demanded a tripartite meeting with the Centre and the state to discuss the issue of illegal immigrants. But that has not happened because the Prime Minister never mentioned the date when they would be sent back," Bhattacharya said. We now want a tripartite meeting with the Centre and the state, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi," Aasu chief advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya said. "The Assam Accord was signed in 1985 with the then Prime Minister (Rajiv Gandhi) present on the occasion. "Modi promised that after May 16 (2016), all illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam will have to pack their bags and leave..