Guwahati, Oct. 6: A convention of those associated with the six-year-long Assam Agitation today set the stage for another mass movement to thwart the BJP-led NDA government's alleged attempt to negate the historic Assam Accord.

Several individuals who had actively taken part in the Assam Agitation attended the convention organised by Asom Andolan Sangrami Manch at the district library auditorium today and resolved to launch a united struggle for withdrawal of the Centre's notification allowing stay of non-Muslim illegal migrants from Bangladesh.

The notification, issued by the Union home ministry on September 7, exempts Bangladeshi and Pakistani nationals belonging to minority communities in those countries who have entered India on or before December 31, 2014, from the relevant provisions of rules and order made under the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920, and the Foreigners Act, 1946, in respect of their entry and stay in India without such documents or after the expiry of those documents, as the case may be, on humanitarian considerations.

A number of Bangladeshi and Pakistani nationals belonging to minority communities were compelled to seek refuge in India due to religious persecution or fear of religious persecution, the notification said.

Several former leaders of AASU and the All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad (AAGSP), that spearheaded the Assam Agitation, and other regional organisations expressed serious concern over the central government's decision violating the Assam Accord.

The convention adopted a resolution describing the central notification as an "insult to the Assam Accord" (the result of "supreme sacrifice" made by 855 martyrs), and a threat to communal harmony in the state.

Chief adviser of the Manch and former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, adviser Utpal Dutta, chief conveners Kumar Dipak Das and Rupam Kakoti, Atul Koch, former MLA Premadhar Bora, former AGP minister Barki Prasad Telenga, Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) adviser Dilip Patgiri, former MP Jayashree Goswami Mahanta, former secretary-general of the Sadou Asom Karmachari Parishad (SAKP) Charan Deka, among others, attended the convention.

The convention resolved that Assam would not take the burden of even a single illegal infiltrator who had entered the state after March 25, 1971, and decided to form an advisory committee to chalk out a future course of action.

A decision to form an organisation similar to the AAGSP to spearhead the agitation against the central notification was also taken at the convention. It also decided to form district-level committees to take their movement to every nook and corner of the state.

Speakers at the meeting lambasted the BJP MPs from Assam for not opposing the notification and said the BJP had issued the notification for political gain. "Our struggle is not for any political benefit, but to protect our very existence which has been threatened by the notification," said Das.