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Assam police stopped 30 suspected infiltrators at the border, Himanta Sarma says
The Chief Minister invoked the Durga Puja in a post on Saturday night, saying the state stays alert on its borders 'each day, each occasion'.
Key points
- Sarma said 30 illegal infiltrators were identified and kept out.
- He called it 'Mahishasur Mardini at the borders', a Durga Puja reference.
- He did not say when or where the attempt was stopped.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday that the state police had stopped 30 suspected illegal infiltrators from entering the country, as Assam marks the Durga Puja.
“Mahishasur Mardini at the borders,” Sarma wrote in a social media post, using the name of the goddess Durga as the slayer of the demon Mahishasura. “30 illegal infiltrators have been identified by @assampolice and prevented from entering Bharat,” he said.
“Each day, each occasion, we remain alert on our borders,” the Chief Minister added, saying security forces were on guard at all times.
Sarma did not say when or where along the border the attempt was stopped, or whether those turned back had been held. Assam Police have not issued a separate statement on the operation.
The post came in the middle of a busy week for the Assam Police. On 12 October the force ran a statewide anti-drug operation that led to 945 arrests and 547 cases and covered 703 drug hotspots, work that Union Home Minister Amit Shah publicly praised.
At the national level, the committee on demographic change set up by the Union Home Ministry in May has opened a portal asking governments, institutions and individuals to send in data on population shifts and settlement patterns linked to illegal immigration.