India Today Mind Rocks: Assam's illegal immigrants problem and what is state goverment doing about it

During a session "the politics of identity whose Assam is it?", Guwahati East MLA Siddhartha Bhattacharya spoke about the problem of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

When asked if the state government is acting on the Prime Minister's poll promising of evicting illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, Siddhartha Bhattacharya said that the PM Modi and the state government are serious about identifying illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

He also mentioned about two groups come to India post-Independence, one for "economic betterment" and others were those who were compelled to leave their country because they faced persecution.