AGARTALA, Aug 2 (TIWN): The West District and Sipahijala District Udbastu Unnayan organised the first state level convention of Nikhil Bharat Bangali Udbastu samany samiti (NBBUSS) on Tuesday at RS Bhawan under the initiative of the NBBUSS All India president Subodh Biswas.

Addressing the convention, the members of NBBUSS came up with  8 charter of demands.

The 8 charter points of demands consists of – to support the refugee families attacked by the terrorists, rehabilitation for the refugees, to provide Rs. 5 lakhs to the refugee families.

Since the year 1998 to 2000 the refugees were attacked by the militants several times which created havoc in their life.

And the matter is carried to the CM and his ministers, different block BDO, SDM and DM, and moreover several times they have staged mass demonstration and hunger strike but they have received only a  hope till today.

On August 29, 2014 and October 29, 2014 the Udbastu Unnayan Committee met with the Chief Minister Manik Sarkar where CM asked them to finish the matter with the Finance Minister Bhanulal Saha and so far they dididnot  get any response from the authority.

Nikhil Bharat Bangali Udbastu Samanvay Samiti is a national forum of 3.5 crores of Bengali refugees scattered in 18 states of India; this mass is none other than the victims of partition. History evidences the sacrifice and dedication of Bengalis in freeing India from British.

It was this mass, whose parents, siblings, relatives etc. dedicated their lives for the nation; it did not limit there, they had to offer their ancestral properties and assets to newly born Pakistan in compensation to freedom of India.

But unfortunately the same mass is treated as second class citizens in their homeland; and for many of them, the term “Illegal Migrants” is used after enactment of The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2003, which is very regrettable.