Question

when Assam movement was started and why?

Answer 1

This movement was started in 1979 under the leadership of All Assam Students Union (AASU) and the All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad (AAGSP) and officially ended on 15 August, 1985 after coming of an understanding with the Government of India which found official expression in the memorandum of understanding popularly ...

Answer 2

The Assam movement that started from 1979 till 1985 was a movement against illegal immigrants. It all started in 1979 when election officials found an abrupt increase in number of voters before the by-poll in Mangaldai constituency for Lok Sabha. This matter was immediately taken up by the AASU led by Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. They demanded permanent sealing of the Indo-Bangladesh border, expulsion of the names of faulty voters (outsiders) and all outsiders who had entered the state after 1951 should be sent back. There were economic issues too, the state had high unemployment rate and poverty despite the existence of natural resources such as tea, oil and coal. These resources were drained out without commensurate benefit to the people living in Assam.


This resulted in framing of the Assam Accord which was signed by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The movement came to an end in 1985 after AGP formed by P.K Mahanta and his other colleagues won the Assam elections in 1985 which promised to eradicate the issue of illegal immigrants and build a Golden Assam.


This issue directly threatened the local Assamese people as they believed that there was a threat to their culture and being reduced to a minority in their own land.
But till today, Assam Accord have not been ratified properly and all the previous governments have failed to implement it, the issues of outsiders continues to be a live issue in Assam politics with successive governments failing to meet the clauses of the Assam Accord which mainly highlights the need to expel the outsiders
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