As the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) is intensifying its campaign in Meghalaya, the issue of illegal migration has shifted its attention from neighbouring Assam to the hill state, here,바카라 웹사이트which shares a 443 km border, porous at many places, with Bangladesh.
It was in Assam where the issue of illegal migration has been바카라 웹사이트a poll plank during every election campaign post-India라이브 바카라 independence. Though Meghalaya is also at the receiving end, the issue has not found much space바카라 웹사이트in the electoral debates of the state until now when TMC is contesting as the principal opposition.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트
Even though Trinamool라이브 바카라 grassroots바카라 웹사이트presence in the hill state is arguably negligible, being the principal opposition this time, the exodus of prominent Congress MLAs into the party has made it a significant factor that can decide which party is going to rule the state in the next five years.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트
With Mukul Sangma, former two-time Congress Chief Minister and a popular leader in Garo Hill where 24 out of the바카라 웹사이트60 Assembly Seats바카라 웹사이트lie, TMC바카라 웹사이트has managed to divert a great chunk of Congress votes. Another former Congress leader Charles Pyngrope, now a TMC candidate, is a popular face in Khasi Hills where the capital city of Shillong is situated.바카라 웹사이트
Further, with TMC fielding바카라 웹사이트candidates in 58 seats of the Meghalaya Assembly, the rival parties are trying to discredit the party for its alleged minority vote bank politics.바카라 웹사이트
While the problem of illegal migration in Meghalaya is as old as India라이브 바카라 independence, the state got highly alerted when 1.9 million people got excluded from the National Register of Citizenship (NRC) implemented in Assam following which Chief Minister Conrad Sangma requested the Centre to put 24-hours strict vigil along the border.바카라 웹사이트
Since then the demand for Inner Line Permit (ILP),바카라 웹사이트a pass required for non-citizens to enter the restricted tribal areas, also intensified. This time the issue of illegal migration has become a poll plank that BJP and National People라이브 바카라 Party (NPP), the two main parties바카라 웹사이트pulling off against TMC branding it as a party thriving on illegal Bangladeshi vote banks in West Bengal.
Ernest Mawrie, BJP president Meghalaya while terming TMC only a “Bengal based party” said, “It will try and polarize the vote bank bringing in more Bangladeshis which West Bengal라이브 바카라 people have already faced. And people in Meghalaya don’t want that problem here so they will reject TMC also."
TMC, on the other hand, to shed the tag of a party supported by illegal Bangladeshi, has promised to resolve the demand for ILP바카라 웹사이트in Meghalaya. It바카라 웹사이트said that it would set up an expert committee to study and resolve the demand.
The Garo Hills, where the TMC is hopeful of making a mark, is bounded by the Mymensingh district a part of the Rangpur district of Bangladesh in the south, where a significant number of the Bengali population lives. The state has witnessed numerous clashes between the tribals and non-tribals.바카라 웹사이트In 2020, a member of the Khasi Students’ Union got killed in a clash with non-tribals, a majority of which were Bengalis. In October last year, one person was arrested in connection with the assault on onlookers of the Bengali population during a rally of the Khasi - Jaintia and Garo groups.바카라 웹사이트
While TMC is being portrayed as the party which has been encouraging illegal influx in West Bengal and will do so if came to power in Meghalaya, it was Mukul Sangma who brought the Meghalaya Residents Safety and Security Act 2016, during his second term to check illegal migration in the state. However, the BJP is terming the act something that ‘exists only on paper’.바카라 웹사이트
Riya Sangma, BJP candidate for Jirang Constituency in Ri-Bhoi district during an election campaign has stated that TMC would lead more illegal Bangladeshi into the state if voted to power.바카라 웹사이트
Talking to 바카라, Suni Bareh, TMC candidate from 6-Khliehriat Constituency in East Jaintia Hill said, “The NPP and the BJP are claiming that our party is banking on the vote bank of the illegal migrants. However, they are the ones which have implemented the Citizenship Amendment Act. So people are smart enough to know which party is banking on which vote bank.”
The incumbent NPP has also attacked TMC citing the example of Tripura where the indigenous tribes became a majority following the mass-scale influx of the Bengali population in the state.바카라 웹사이트
Bajop Pyngrope, spokesperson of NPP has termed TMC라이브 바카라 contesting Meghalaya polls as a misadventure.
“It is a Bengal-based party which does not know anything about the state. We all have seen what happened in other states such as Tripura where people joined them initially and then left immediately after the election," he said.바카라 웹사이트
