AASU claims Center's new immigration order 'conspiracy' settle illegal Bangladeshis in Assam

Guwahati: All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) staged a state-wide protests on Thursday, demanding the expulsion of illegal Bangladeshi fundamentalists, implementation of the 1985 Assam Accord, sealing of the India-Bangladesh border with shoot-at-sight orders, proper NRC updating, exclusion of Assam from the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and swift implementtion of the Biplab Kumar Sharma Committee report on Clause 6 of the Accord.Beginning at 6 am, student units across Assam held an 11-hour hunger strikes in district headquarters and burned copies of the recently issued Immigration and Foreigners (Exemption) Order, 2025. The Centre’s order allows entry, stay, and exit of six minority communities from neighbouring countries. Aasu called it a conspiracy to settle illegal Bangladeshis in Assam until 2024.Aasu president Utpal Sarma and general secretary Samiran Phukan said the historic Assam Accord was signed after a six-year movement that claimed 860 martyrs.“It clearly states that foreigners entering after March 24, 1971, must be identified, removed from voter lists, and deported,” Sarma said.They called the new order “more dangerous than the CAA,” adding, “Imposing the burden of illegal foreigners until 2024 is genocidal, anti-indigenous, and communal.”AASU has launched a statewide satyagraha. Hunger strikes continued until 5 pm on Thursday, with symbolic burning of the immigration order in the evening.

The Asom Sanmilita Morcha (ASOM) also protested the Centre’s move. Led by ASOM president Ajit Kumar Bhuyan and general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi, they labelled the order anti-Assamese and communal, warning of the BJP’s “sinister plans”. visible since the CAA was enacted.“The destruction of Assam’s indigenous people will never be accepted. This 2024 cut-off will only be extended,” Bhuyan said. He accused chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of turning Assam into a haven for illegal foreigners.