'BJP govt targets us for being Muslims', laments evictees in Assam!!
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Guwahati: In the BJP’s Himanta Sarma ruled Assam, where rampant evictions are being carried out in a Muslim majority area, a team representing the Muslim League Assam visited Goalpara to assess the issues faced by displaced people. The team revealed that the evicted people’s current state is appalling.
The team's C.K. Subair and Adv. Faisal Babu said that they were stopped by the police at various places. However, the team reached the camps after travelling for six hours from Guwahati, visited the Goalpara detention camp, and spoke to the authorities.
The evicted people informed the team that they had been living in Assam for a hundred years. The team learned that 4,500 families were evicted. Upon seeing the delegation, the evicted people came in droves and expressed their grievances. They lamented.
One of the residents of the camp, Sulaiman Ali, said, “People from about 300 houses in this village were evicted. The houses were demolished and razed to the ground. The notice was issued just two days before the demolition. The BJP government is targeting us because we are Muslims. We were born and raised here. Our ancestors have been living here since before independence. We have tax returns that we started paying 50 years ago. Our names are on the voter list and the NRC list. Despite having all these documents, we are being asked to leave," explained Sulaiman Ali, a resident of the camp.
"In this scorching heat, we can't stand or sleep under this tarpaulin (shelters). The children are screaming. Many are sick. They evicted us, saying it is government land. Can't they give us a place to live instead?" Hajitha, holding her baby, described her miserable life.
The next sorrow was that there was no food. The Muslim League team immediately went to the nearest intersection, collected food supplies for 1,500 people, and handed them over directly. The camp lacks even basic necessities like toilets, tarpaulins, and drinking water pumps. The League members revealed that the camp for the evictees in Assam is a place of severe human rights violations.
