IMDT - An information to younger generation

On July 13th of 2005, Supreme Court of India made remarks on legislation like this: “The IMDT (Illegal Migrants Detection and Tribunals Act) is not only unacceptable to the Indian Constitution but is against it.” Perhaps this would not have hit the headlines of all the newspapers and I am surer most of the younger generation might not be aware of this IMDT itself. I would be briefing this upon in this article.

The Seven Sisters (north eastern states) were called as Assam prior to separation. It was a peaceful land full of resources and calm people. The British after establishing friendship with the Muslim League allowed infiltration of excessive muslim population from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) only to create havoc among Indians. However, this was not stopped even after our Independence and Indian Government turned a blind eye to this.

The continuous in-flow of Bangladeshi illegal immigrants became a thorn in the flesh of Assamese but it became a tool of Vote Politics to Politicians. Our Ex-President Dr. Fakruddin-Ali Ahmed proved his loyalty by approving this infiltration as these infiltrators, in 1967 elections, elected him from Parpeta. This result initiated the Vote-Bank politics in Indian History.

Thus, encouraged immigrants started entering into other states also like West Bengal and now even entered Maharashtra. The so-called secular parties keep them encouraging courtesy vote-banks. The result now we have around 2 crores of illegal infiltrators in India (most of them are here on a mission to de-stabilize India with their terrorist activities).

Courtesy, Arun Shourie, the report by RAW to Central Government in this regard was made public. Even before to this, it was the people of Assam who brought this to light. They held various demonstrations without any violence. AASU (All Assam Students Union) spearheaded this fight with Central Govt. AASU, Started in 1977-78, became popular by 1980. As usual, Indian Media was against this and labeled AASU as anti-Muslim and those who supported infiltration were claimed as secularists.

The so-called secularists formed AMSU (All Assam Minorities Students Union) to confront AASU. The support for AASU increased all over India. The Govt of India was forced to solve this issue and in the name of dialogue, the Govt led by Ms Indira Gandhi dilly-dallied the issue with AASU. Finally, it assured AASU that a law will be written to excavate all those illegal infiltrators who entered India after 1950.

Assam Gona Parishad, a wing of AASU won in the elections but the Govt of India did not keep its promise. Later the law was written that was called as IMDT. But the irony is with clever usage of words, the vote-bank politicians made a mockery of our legislation with the new rule IMDT.


On 15th of October 1983, a legislation was written by the then Govt of India named IMDT. It was written that the Govt will find out those infiltrators who are illegally living in India and exile them out. This was valid only in Assam. Later, Assam was divided into several states and they were not included.

Another problem in the law is, the secular politicians who banked on Muslim votes also stated that whoever submits a compliant that somebody is an illegal immigrant has to submit the proof and not the illegal migrant.

Supported by the so called secularists, learned men (who always were anti-Hindu) and the media, whoever spoke about the loopholes of IMDT were labeled as anti-Muslim. Only at this point of time a legislator from AGP filed a suit with Supreme Court of India.

Supreme Court in its Judgement says, “IMDT supposed to evacuate illegal migrants was not written with that notion but supports and protects them indirectly. This is a breach of legislation and is against Indian Constitution.” It also said that this anti-national activity is being done with help of law itself.

It added, “Due to infiltration the nation is surrounded by anti-national elements from outside and inside of India as well. According to Article 355, it becomes the responsibility of the Central Government to stop this!” The supreme court had made this remark based on the report from Ex-Governor of Assam, Mr. Sinha in 1986 to the President of India.

Still, the Government of India has not taken any action on this. It has formed a committee of Ministers to analyze this issue. By doing this, they have taken care of their vote-bank but also assured the destruction of our Country.