-TwoCircles.net Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the government in Assam in 2016, the state has witnessed a spree of evictions uprooting thousands of people. The forced eviction drive became rampant after Himanta Biswa Sarma took charge as chief minister in 2021. GUWAHATI: The forced eviction drive of Bengali speaking Muslims in Assam by the state government was aimed at serving “vested interest with ulterior motives” against the people who were...
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Anti-CAA protests gather fresh steam
-The Hindu Rollback of farm laws spurs groups in Assam, event planned on December 12. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on repealing the three contentious farm laws has revived groups against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Assam with a protest planned on December 12. The CAA seeks to fast-track the granting of citizenship to non-Muslims who fled religious persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan and took refuge in India till December 31, 2014. A...
More »Data: Three States accounted for more than 70% of UAPA cases registered since 2014 0 -Pavithra KM
-Factly.in Cases relating to ‘Sedition’ and those registered under the UAPA have been discussed widely in the last few years. Data indicates that the three states of Manipur, Jammu & Kashmir, Assam accounted for more than 70% of the cases registered under UAPA between 2014 & 2020. On the other hand, the nine states of Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Bihar, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, and Manipur accounted for more...
More »Assam’s Evictions Are Turning Skilled Bengali Muslim Farmers Into Labourers -Makepeace Sitlhou
-Article-14.com In driving out ‘illegal encroachers’ from farms in an area smaller than Assam’s capital for an agriculture project that does not interest native Assamese, the Bharatiya Janata Party government is dispossessing productive Bengali Muslim farmers, many of whom say they bought land from locals and have been paying land taxes, some for up to 70 years. Darrang, Assam: On the day Moinul Haque, 28, was shot in the abdomen and killed...
More »Fact-finding team paints a grim picture of Assam government -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph APCR reproduced an account that sheds more on the ugly backdrop to the police firing and atrocity that followed A delegation of rights defenders who visited Assam’s Darrang district, where a day labourer and a child were killed in a land reclamation drive in a minority-dominated settlement last month, has reconstructed a grim picture of the government and private groups creating a situation that culminated in the police firing. The fact-finding...
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