A man sits inside his gutted house at Malgaon in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Saturday night, after fresh violence broke out in BTAD. (PTI)

Guwahati, Aug. 26: A six-member team of the Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) led by BTC and party president chief Hagrama Mohilary left for New Delhi today to discuss the BTAD situation with the home minister and the home secretary.

On the other hand, the All Assam Minorities Students Union (AAMSU) has called a strike on Tuesday protesting the continued violence in the BTAD.

Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also accompanied the BPF team to Delhi.

Sarma, Mohilary, transport minister Chandan Brahma and BPF Rajya Sabha MP Biswajit Daimary together left for Delhi this morning while the others followed in the afternoon.

Sources said the Bodo leaders would also be meeting the Congress central leadership. “The BTC administration has come under renewed pressure particularly after the killing of five persons yesterday,” a source said.

Sarma, who is part of the group of ministers set up to monitor the situation in BTAD, had submitted his resignation recently. But he resumed duties yesterday after withdrawing his resignation on Friday. It is, however, not clear whether he has accompanied the Bodo leaders in his capacity as a member of the group of ministers.

The AAMSU and AIDUF today accused AASU and the BJP of trying to instigate more violence in BTAD by raking up the Bangladeshi migrants issue.

The two organisations said the BJP, AASU and Bajrang Dal had been making “irresponsible” comments about the presence of illegal Bangladeshi migrants in the state when the need of hour was to desist from raking up controversies. This, in turn, they said, was instigating some forces to cause more trouble in the riot-hit areas.

“The AAMSU has been extending full support to the government in detecting and deporting illegal Bangladeshis from the state. We have always participated in all discussions and meetings convened on the issue of illegal influx from Bangladesh. But considering the present volatile situation in the BTAD, organisations must refrain from making irresponsible and provocative statements on the issue. Unfortunately, the BJP and AASU have been seen doing exactly the opposite,” AAMSU president Abdur Rahim Ahmed said.

He said the issue of influx of illegal Bangladeshi nationals could be discussed in detail and an effective solution found once normality was restored in the BTAD.

The union has called a 12-hour Assam bandh on Tuesday in protest against the continuing violence in the Bodo belt and also demanded President’s rule as the government had failed to contain the violence. The union will stage a demonstration in New Delhi on September 10 to put pressure on the Centre to impose President’s rule.

AIUDF general secretary Aditya Langthasa said since the CBI had been conducting a probe to ascertain the causes and circumstances that led to the BTAD violence, “let us wait for the outcome of the CBI investigation”.

Bajrang Dal, too, has called a 12-hour Assam strike tomorrow demanding immediate arrest of AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal for allegedly trying to give a communal shade to the riots.

Another 12-hour strike on Tuesday has been called by the United Movement for People’s Rights’, Assam, an umbrella organisation of different non-Bodo bodies, in protest against the state government’s failure to rehabilitate the riot victims within August 15.

Former deputy leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and BJP leader S.S. Ahluwalia, who visited Kokrajhar and met relief camp inmates today, termed the issue of illegal immigrants, “a serious problem for the entire country. It is more serious in the Northeast. The infiltrators are encroaching onto the area of our people and thus disturbing communal harmony.”