Amit Shah Reaffirms BJP’s Commitment to Making Assam Free of Infiltrators

• By Thetripurapost Desk, Guwahati
• Aug 30, 2025
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday reiterated that the BJP remains firmly committed to freeing Assam and the country from infiltrators.

Addressing a programme in Guwahati marking the birth centenary of Assam’s first non-Congress Chief Minister, Golap Borbora, Shah said the high-power demography mission recently announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be a crucial step in identifying illegal foreigners.

Recalling Borbora’s landmark 1978 voter list cleansing drive that detected nearly 37,000 illegal foreigners and ignited the Assam Agitation, Shah criticised opposition parties for resisting the ongoing SIR voter roll cleansing exercise, terming such opposition a reflection of “political moral degradation.”

Lauding the Assam government’s current action against infiltrators and encroachment, Shah praised Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for carrying forward Borbora’s socialist legacy despite the former leader’s lack of association with the BJP.

Shah also highlighted Borbora’s welfare initiatives—such as free education up to class 10 and the abolition of land tax—drawing parallels with Prime Minister Modi’s efforts to honour forgotten leaders like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.