The All India United Democratic Front president and MP Badruddin Ajmal here on Thursday said that they are going to lodge FIR against a MLA, deputy commissioner and superintendent of police of trouble-torn Kokrajhar district who were silent spectator to the attacks on minorities since July 20.
Talking to this newspaper over telephone from a relief camp in Dhubri, Mr Ajmal also expressed his deep anguish over the statement of Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi accusing him of trying to defend the culprits those hatched the conspiracy to drive out minorities from Bodoland Territorial Council area.
Mr Ajmal, who himself is camping in Dhubri his parliament constituency, demanded that chief minister should take the moral responsibility of complete collapse of law and order machinery in the state and step down.
Mr Ajmal said, “Lakhs of refugees who were thrown out of BTC area from their respective villages at gunpoint are crying for shelter and relief but administration has failed to provide them any relief.”
He regretted that chief minister’s statement in which he is trying to project the ongoing onslaught against minority as a small incident has disappointed the people.
Mr Ajmal claimed that home ministry officials have assured them to re-settle over 1.5 lakh refugees to their respective villages within one week time.
He also claimed that riot was a planned conspiracy in which Kokrajhar district administration was involved.
“What I have been told by people in the relief camp that SP and DC were physically present when armed miscreants attacked them,” he said that state administration had prior information on this conspiracy but allowed it happen for past six days.
Describing it one of the worst human tragedies that minority of the state are facing, Mr Ajmal regretted that a large section of leaders of BTC are describing the victims of violence as “Bangladeshi”.
He said, “The onslaught against minority was aimed at to change the demography of BTC area in which population of Bodo is merely 23 per cent.” He said that they have no problem with demand of Bodoland state but not at gunpoint.
He said that Bodo leadership should not think off a Bodoland by ignoring the 77 per cent non-Bodo population of the district.
Mr Ajmal feared that actual death toll in this carnage would be much higher as a large number of people are still missing.