ABMSU slams Assam government for Jamugurihat eviction

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BAKSA: The All BTAD Minority Students' Union (ABMSU) expressed its anguish over the eviction of several families in Jamugurihat's Dighali Chapri and Laletapu under Sootea assembly constituency in Sonitpur district on Monday. The ABMSU strongly condemned the eviction without rehabilitation and demanded that every family must be rehabilitated with compensation soon.

This was revealed in a press release issued by ABMSU general secretary TaisonHussain. He alleged that while the whole world was facing the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly-elected BJP-led Government in Assam has exposed its fascist character by evicting the landless people of the religious minority community treating them as Bangladeshis.

Hussain also raised important questions as to why the police could not arrest the families evicted by the Sonitpur district administration and extradite them to Bangladesh as per law.

Accusing and criticizing Sootea MLA Padma Hazarika, Hussain said, "From time to time Hazarika had conspired to commit such atrocities in the interest of vote-bank politics by slandering the flood-affected families as Bangladeshis."

TaisonHussain made it clear that ABMSU would never accept these incidents. "In Assam, especially due to floods and erosion, lakhs of families have lost their land and have been living homeless life for ages and the government has been carrying out such inhuman evictions for the purpose of dividing the communal pole in political interest from time to time, instead of giving land rights to those families and rehabilitating them," he said.

In the press statement, TaisonHussain said that ABMSU would continue its agitation against such repressive abuses and demanded land rights soon after the COVID situation improved, making it clear that no eviction would be accepted without rehabilitation.

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