Updated on Tuesday, December 02, 2008, 00:00 IST

Guwahati, Dec 02: Accusing the Congress-led Assam government of converting the state into a safe haven for illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the BJP on Tuesday said that the state had been "allowed" to be freely used by 'jihadis', fundamentalists and ISI elements.

Giving a list of 26 Islamic fundamentalist outfits allegedly operating in the state, BJP state unit president Ramen Deka demanded that the UPA government at the Centre and the Congress government in Assam should explain to people the cause for their presence here.

He accused Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi of remaining a "silent spectator" of ISI, 'jihadi' and fundamentalist elements moving free in the state and called him the "weakest Chief Minister of Assam".

Deka averred that the failure of the government to make public the enquiries into the arrest of 215 Muslim fundamentalists between 2001-08 in the state and evidence against them had led to the release of 150 Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) militants.

The enquiries into the 546 bomb blasts killing 3,246 people in the last seven years during the two tenures of Gogoi had also failed to yield any outcome, the BJP leader alleged.

Demanding an enquiry by a sitting Guwahati High Court judge into the October 30 serial blasts in Assam killing 87 persons, he wanted the probe into the SMS of a militant outfit claiming responsibility for to be made public.

Dubbing the change of the state Director General of Police yesterday as "too little, too small", Deka charged the CM with failing to modernise the police force and to protect the riverine routes through which the ultras enter the state.

The BJP would take out a rally here tomorrow and submit a memorandum to the governor demanding dismissal of the Gogoi government.

Bureau Report