The RSS agreed with the Assamese agitators demanding 1951 as the cut-off year for legitimate cross-border immigration. “Assam had a large population of Muslims whose mother tongue was Assamese; AASU itself had Muslims in leadership roles. Assam had a large population of Muslims whose mother tongue was Assamese; AASU itself had Muslims in leadership roles. At a meeting of the Working Committee of Assam VHP on 8 June 1980, its local chief argued that ‘all the Bengali Hindu migrants from East Pakistan/Bangladesh can’t be accepted as Indians’. In Jaipur that day, Vajpayee released a ‘seven-point formula’ at a press conference to break the stalemate on Assam.