A bridge has become an unusual issue in a polarised part of Assam
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AIUDF chief says he initiated the project whose foundation stone Modi laid in February
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Border Security Force (BSF) personnel keep up vigil along the Indo-Bangladesh international border in Dhubri district of Assam. File
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AIUDF chief says he initiated the project whose foundation stone Modi laid in February
A bridge to be India’s longest has become an unusual issue in a polarised part of Assam often synonymous with “illegal immigrants”.
Electoral politics in Assam since the 1970s has invariably been spun around the narrative of ‘Bangladeshis’ threatening to take over the State. Western Assam’s Dhubri district, from which South Salmara-Mankachar district was carved out in 2016, has been the peg of this storyline.