Guwahati, April 13: The All Assam Students Union (AASU) has 18 questions for the state’s political fraternity, but the BJP has 100 for the Congress alone.

Inspired by the AASU’s 18-point questionnaire for political parties, the state unit of the BJP has decided to give the Tarun Gogoi government some extra food for thought.

The student organisation has set April 16 as the deadline for parties and candidates to come up with “convincing answers” to its questions.

The BJP will make public its questionnaire for the chief minister on Thursday and ask for a response by April 26, when the second phase of polling will be conducted.

A senior BJP leader said the party was “determined” to make the Gogoi government “uncomfortable” with the questionnaire, which would be “in the style of a chargesheet”.

He said the questions were being framed by legislator Bimalangshu Roy and would seek the government’s response to various issues, including infiltration from Bangladesh, law and order, alleged exploitation of the tea community and minorities, secret killings and crimes against women.

The alleged involvement of Congress councillor Uttam Sarkar in the murder of railway contractor Bani Prasad Sarmah will figure in the set of questions.

AASU president Prabin Boro recently told the media that his organisation would support candidates and parties with the most convincing answers its questions, especially on repealing the contentious IMDT Act and constitutional safeguards for the indigenous people.

Some of the other questions are on sealing the Indo-Bangladesh border, the need for a national register of citizens and the proposed constitutional amendment to Section 3 (1) (A) of the Citizens’ Act, which guarantees voting rights to children of Bangladeshi nationals who settled in Assam till 1986.

The BJP questionnaire is likely to clash with that of the AASU, which blames the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre for the influx from Bangladeshis into the state.

AASU adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya said the continued influx was the outcome of not implementing the Assam Accord.

On the BJP’s proposed questionnaire, he said the party was merely resorting to gimmickry. He said the Congress and the BJP were “birds of the same flock”. He said no political party had adequately highlighted regional problems at the national level.

Bhattacharyya targeted deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, saying he did not attend a single tripartite meeting of representatives of the AASU, the Centre and the state government to review the implementation of the accord despite the BJP making the issue of infiltration its primary poll plank in Assam. “This proves that lack of political will is the main stumbling block in implementing the historical accord in letter and spirit,” he said.