By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
All India Union Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief and MP Badruddin Ajmal during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanded CBI inquiry into the murder of youth leader Lafikul Islam Ahmed, president of the All Bodoland Minority Students’ Union (ABMSU).
Ajmal also demanded that permanent solution to the ravaging floods in Assam should be worked out besides providing relief to the victims. Ajmal along with his party MP Sirajuddin Ajmal during his meeting with Modi on Friday also donated Rs 30 lakh to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund as an aid towards Assam floods.
Ajmal, requested the PM to look into the murder of Lafikul Ahmed, who was murdered near Gosaigaon on August 1. “After 2012 ethnic violence, there has been a peaceful atmosphere in BTAD for which late Lafikul played a very important role. In view of the above, this murder is likely to be a very calculated attempt to disturb Peace. Therefore, we request you for CBI enquiry regarding the incident and also give Rs 25 lakh as exgratia assistance to the bereaved family of Lafikul Islam,” says the memorandum which was handed over PM by Ajmal.
Ajmal also said the state had been severely ravaged by floods and loss of land. “We have been demanding and today once again we request you to declare flood and erosion in Assam as “national calamities” and find out permanent solutions of the problem in order to protect the people of Assam from this disaster,” the memorandum reads. Ajmal has, in the past also asked Central government to pay more attention to floods in Assam that have become a yearly event and affect millions of lives. In 2016, he had sought a relief package of Rs 1,000 crore for the state. This year more than 80 people have died across various districts of Assam with Lakhimpur district the worst affected.
Ajmal also raised the issue of wrongful detention of Marzana Bibi over charges that she is an illegal immigrant and the issue of re-opening Cachar Paper Mills and Nagaon Paper mills, two units of Hindustan Paper Mills, which stopped production in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Ajmal reminded that Modi during the election campaign last year in Assam had promised to restart the mills, which provided direct and indirect employment to over 4 lakh people. Ajmal also requested the PM to start an AMU branch in Dhubri on the lines of Kerala, Bihar and West Bengal along with starting the construction of Dhubri-Phulbari bridge over the Brahmaputra among other issues.