There is no second opinion on the fact that the large majority of citizens across the state are happy with the present government in Assam for carrying out a massive eviction drive across the state in order to reclaim areas falling under reserved forests and various government and public institutions. Looking back into Assam’s history of the past 120 years or so, it becomes clear how immigration of Muslims from erstwhile East Bengal, East Pakistan, and present-day Bangladesh has followed a particular pattern. CS Mullan, Superintendent of the 1931 Census Operations in Assam, had feared that the large-scale migration of Muslims from Eastern Bengal would, within four or five decades, leave only the Sibsagar district in the hands of the Assamese. R B Vaghaiwalla, Superintendent of the 1951 Census Operations, in his report, while describing the unnatural growth of population, had identified “the vast immigration of land-hungry Muslims from across the border, especially during the first half of the decade” as the main reason. Several reports in the subsequent period, including the never-published Tiwari Commission Report on the 1983 Assam Election violence, the Supreme Court’s famous verdict of July 12, 2005 striking down the notorious IM(DT) Act, and the 2017 report of the Committee for Protection of Land Rights of Indigenous People of Assam, clearly describe how land has been systematically occupied by Muslim immigrants—many of them illegal migrants—in Assam. Records of the Assam Legislative Assembly after the 2006 Assembly election, on the other hand, will reveal how members of a particular political party had often asked for details about government land, reserved forest land, and PGR/VGR, etc., with the suspected objective of creating a database of land that can be easily encroached in the state. Investigations probably will also reveal how, under the patronage of a particular party’s government, forest land in many districts was declared or shown as degraded forest in order to facilitate settlement of thousands of families claiming to have lost their land in nonexistent char areas on the Brahmaputra. One must also remember how the Congress government of Sarat Chandra Sinha, in the interest of getting votes, had looked the other way when lakhs of refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan were required to be sent back after their land—Bangladesh—was liberated by the Indian armed forces.