Check ISI activities in NE, says BJP

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JAN. 6. The BJP has urged the Centre to take measures to check the activities of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the North-East and warned that the region would otherwise turn into another `hotbed of terrorism and separatism'. The party national executive, which ended on Friday, in its resolution on the North-East situation, expressed concern over the spurt in terrorist and separatist violence in Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.

The continuation of violence and ``virtual abdication of authority by some State Governments'' had resulted in the loss of innocent lives. It suggested the setting up of a special commission to unearth links between some politicians and separatist/banned organisations following reports that such links resulted in diversion of funds meant for development in the region.

The Government must issue multi-purpose identity cards to all citizens, especially those in the border areas and scrap the Illegal Migrants Determination by Tribunal Act to check the ``continuous flow of illegal immigrants'' from Bangladesh.

In Assam, where the Assembly elections were due later this year, steps should be taken to check the activities of Surrendered United Liberation Front of Asom (SULFA) cadres who, it charged, were terrorising voters and indulged in extortion.

In the backdrop of the sudden upsurge in killings of non-Assamese in the State during the last few months, the party asked the Centre to thwart the ``conspiracy of the ISI and the ULFA to divide society'' and to drive out the non-locals.

Incidentally, the resolution made no mention of Mizoram except for asking the Centre to rehabilitate the Reang refugees who were driven out of the State. The BJP vice-president, Mr. K. Jana Krishnamurthy, said the party would observe the birth centenary celebrations of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee by asking its local committees in metropolitan areas and cities to adopt a girl child from the poorest family and provide education.

The party would observe February 2 (birth anniversary of Sant Ravi Das) and April 14 (birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar) as `social harmony day'.

Meetings would be arranged for party workers and public on national integration and unity between February and July this year.

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