Guwahati: The All-Assam Students’ Union (AASU) claims that the Central and State governments ‘failed’ to block the borders between India and Bangladesh due to the ongoing increase of jihadis in Assam.
The AASU claimed on Sunday that the porous border is the main cause of the increase in jihadism in the state.
Reports claim that on Sunday, AASU General Secretary Shankar Jyoti Baruah and a group of students visited the India-Bangladesh border in the Dhubri region of Assam and examined the border areas between pillars 1001 and 1031.
They said that the boundary was “completely exposed” at the Gangadhar River in the Binnachara neighbourhood close to Golakganj.
The general secretary of the AASU claimed that for numerous years they had been warning the federal and state governments about the vulnerable border regions and the potential repercussions for the state.
They claimed that nobody, however, paid attention to the warnings.
According to Baruah, the jihadis and other fundamentalist elements are infiltrating Assam through these open borders.
The Assam Accord was signed 37 years ago, and since then, the total sealing of the border has not been completed, according to the AASU, which also criticised the State and the Centre for “failing” to do so.