280:(RSS) approached Gupta to understand why so many Bengali Hindus were massacred by the Assamese communities. The RSS leadership considered the Bengali Hindus "unprotected" and did not expect the local Assamese to kill their co-religionists. Gupta explained the ethnic and linguistic fault lines that lay behind the massacre, which were so deep that the perpetrators did not distinguish between Hindus and Muslims. This was the cause of the native sentiment of the original inhabitants the Assamese for their survival under the threat of Bengali-speaking doubtful immigrants whether it be Hindu or Muslim.
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and the polling agents could not be sent to
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in 1983. It demanded martyr status for the victims and compensation for the families. Rangiya legislator
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were opposed to the elections and viewed the non-Assamese community pockets as pro-election. The communication links to the non-Assamese villages were cut. As a result, the
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groups, who held resentments towards the immigrant
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