Guwahati: Opposition AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary on Saturday accused Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi of raising the Bangladeshi Hindu immigrants issue with an eye on the upcoming Assembly polls.
"The ten years that Tarun Gogoi has been Chief Minister never once did we hear him mention the Bangladeshi Hindu immigrants issue. Why has he woken up to it now on the eve of the elections. It is a poll strategy. He has done it with an
eye on the polls," Patowary told reporters here.
Talking to the media on March 6, Gogoi had said he preferred a "humanitarian" approach towards the Hindu migrants who had come here after 1971 from Bangladesh.
He said they should be given refugee status and not treated as foreigners as they came to India after being persecuted in Bangladesh.
To queries on his late realisation, Gogoi had replied, "Yes, I have taken 10 years to realise the fact that Hindu Bengalis had to leave Bangladesh under compulsion, and as such they should be given shelter here. Am I wrong if I have
realised this after 10 years?"
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