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Ex-plan panel member faces huge backlash after 'B'deshis can live in Assam' remark
The New Indian Express Kozhikode
|August 26, 2025
ACTIVIST and former Planning Commission member Syeda Saiyidain Hameed has stirred a hornet's nest by suggesting that Bangladeshis can live in Assam.
ACTIVIST and former Planning Commission member Syeda Saiyidain Hameed has stirred a hornet's nest by suggesting that Bangladeshis can live in Assam. Speaking to the media in Guwahati on Sunday on the sidelines of an event, she stated, "What's wrong if they are Bangladeshis? Bangladeshis are also humans. The world is so large. Bangladeshis can also be here. Not depriving anyone's rights."
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