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Assam Movement
The Assam Movement (or Assam Agitation) (1979-1985) was a
popular movement against undocumented
immigrants in Assam. The movement, led by All Assam Students
Union (AASU) and the 'All Assam Gana Sangram
Parishad' (AAGSP), developed a program of protests and
demonstration to compel the government to identify and
expel illegal immigrants. The agitation programs were largely
non-violent, but the Nellie massacre was a case of
extreme violence. The agitation program ended in August 1985
following the Assam Accord, which was signed by
leaders of AASU-AAGSP and the Government of India.
The agitation leaders formed a political party, Asom Gana
Parishad. It came to power in the state of Assam in the
Assembly elections of 1985 and later in 1996.
History
In 1978 Hiralal Patwari died, requiring a by-election in the
Mangaldoi Lok Sabha Constituency to fill his seat.
During the process of the election, observers noticed that the
number of registered voters had grown dramatically.
AASU demanded that the elections be postponed till the names of
foreign nationals were deleted from the electoral
rolls. The Assam Agitation developed from there.
Developments
In 27 November 1979, AASU-AAGSP combine called for the closure
of all educational institutes and picketing in
state and central government offices. Mass picketing was
arranged in front of all polling offices where candidate
nominations could be filed, in the first week of December 1979.
No candidates were allowed to file nomination
papers in the Brahmaputra valley. December 10, the last date for
submitting the nomination papers, was declared as a
statewide bandh. The government proclaimed a curfew at different
parts of the state, including the major city of
Guwahati.At Barrpeta, then IGP K.P.S. Gill led the police force
in escorting Bagam Abida Ahmed to file nomination papers;
they attacked protestors. Khargeswar Talukdar, the 22-year-old
general secretary of Barpeta AASU Unit, was beaten
to death and thrown into a ditch next to the highway at
Bhabanipur. Talukdar has been honoured by the Assam
Movement as its first Martyr.
Negotiations
The parliament passed the Illegal Migrants (Determination by
Tribunals) Act (IM-DT) in October 1983 and began to
implement it in Assam. Negotiations took place between the
government and AASU-AAGSPO during the later parts
of 1984 and first part of the year 1985. In May 1985, formal
talks started and Home Secretary led the central
government team. Several rounds of talks took place during May,
June, and July 1985. Initially the Assam coalition
wanted immigrants from the 1961-71 waves to be disfranchised and
dispersed to other areas of the country. By
August 1985, they had agreed to a new cutoff date of January
1966; immigrants who had entered illegally after that
were to be detected and deported, and disfranchised for 10
years. On August 15, the historic Assam Accord was
signed in presence of the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
During the years of protest, 855 people had died.
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