Uproot jihadis from Assam: AASU

Guwahati: The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) has expressed grave concern at the recent unearthing of jihadi networks with Bangladeshi links in Assam and urged both the Centre and state government to ruthlessly uproot these anti-national elements.

Talking to The Sentinel, AASU president Dipanka Kumar Nath said on Friday that fundamentalist networks such as Al Qaeda, Huji, Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) etc., have been spreading their tentacles in Assam for a long to perpetrate acts of sabotage. Therefore, he said, the Central and state governments will have to be more vigilant and the security agencies should ruthlessly wipe out the jihadi elements.

Nath further said that the security agencies must accord priority to finding out if migrants of Bangladeshi origin are helping to spread the jihadi network in the state.

The AASU president mentioned that there are multiple entry points into Assam along the lengthy Indo-Bangladesh border, as well as inter-state borders, for the jihadi elements and the security agencies must plug them to stop the jihadi menace.

Nath said that the goal of total sealing of the Indo-Bangladesh border was stipulated in the Assam Accord of 1985, but fencing of the entire stretch remains incomplete even now, especially in the Karimganj sector. The border fencing work must be completed in the interest of national security, Nath added.

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