AAMSU Stages Protest in Delhi, Demands Aligarh Muslim University Campus in Assam

GUWAHATI: The All Assam Minority Students' Union (AAMSU) staged a protest in Jantar Mantar, Delhi with several demands including halt of ongoing eviction against the government land encroachers.

In the protest site, an AAMSU leader said to media, "Our demands include stop of eviction in Assam. We also demand setting up of a campus of the Aligarh Muslim University in Assam."

Over hundred people took part in the protest and shouted anti-government slogans.

The protesters shouting slogans against the Assam BJP-led government termed the current eviction drive as an inhuman act. They also alleged that the government unleashed barbarity on the minority communities.

The AAMSU also demanded stop atrocities on minority community people in Tripura and Bangladesh and setting up of a campus of the Aligarh Muslim University in Assam.

They sought intervention of the Government of India on the Bangladesh to end the atrocities against the minority community people in the neighbouring country. The AAMSU raised demand to issue ADHAR cards to all the people and submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Meanwhile, the Hojai administration on Monday kick-started the two-day eviction drive in Lumding Reserve Forest of the district and dismantled 555 households that were illegally constructed inside the reserve forest long back. The initiative, known as the second major eviction drive by the government in two months after the Gauhati high court ordered clearing of the encroached parts of the reserve forests.

According to Hojai administration, altogether 650 houses had been traced by the administration inside the reserve forest and 85 per cent of these houses had already been dismantled during the day-long drive. The remaining houses will be covered under the drive on Tuesday.

According to the official record, altogether 640 hectare reserve forest area was in the hands of the encroachers. Most of the encroachers came to the reserve forest between 1995 to 2005 and encroached on the large area for agriculture purposes. "Today's eviction drive ended smoothly without any law and order problem. Most of the encroachers had left the site before the administration reached the site for the drive," a source said. Also Read - Fake Lady Doctor Loots Rs 20 Lakhs from 2 families in Tinsukia, 

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