It is very significant
that the Union Home Ministry is conducting a high-level inquiry into
allegations of foreign funds received by Markazul Ma'arif, an NGO managed by
Badruddin Ajmal and his family. The allegation is that Ajmal's NGO had received
the foreign funds in gross violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation)
Act (FCRA), 2010, which is a criminal offence. The Assam Police had only
recently registered a case against Ajmal's NGO for violation of FCRA. The FCRA
is a legislation to regulate the acceptance and utilization of foreign
contribution or foreign hospitality by certain individuals or associations or
companies. The Act also has provisions to prohibit the acceptance and
utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality for any activities
detrimental to the national interest. The people of Assam must always remember
that Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, a Mumbai-based businessman from Hojai, whose
roots are said to be in erstwhile East Bengal or erstwhile East Pakistan or
present-day Bangladesh, and that he had floated the All India United Democratic
Front (AIUDF) immediately after the Supreme Court had scrapped the notorious
IMDT Act in 2005 in order to protect the interests of the large number of
illegal migrants from erstwhile East Pakistan and present-day Bangladesh. The
infiltrators were protected by successive Congress regimes starting from Indira
Gandhi and Hiteswar Saikia's time with the help of the notorious IMDT Act. This
man, who has been a Member of Parliament from Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency which
has a huge presence of illegal migrants and people having roots in erstwhile
East Pakistan and present-day Bangladesh, must be having a lot of designs in
mind to harm the interests of the indigenous communities of Assam. That one MLA
of suspected migrant roots had raised the demand for a 'Miya' museum, and that
too inside the sacred precincts of Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, is enough to prove
what kind of designs a foreign-funded NGO headed by the same person whose
political party was formed to protect the illegal migrants.