BJP govt deliberately targeting Muslims in eviction drives under pretext of forest conservation: AIUDF
New Delhi: The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party government of Hemanta Biswa Sarma is deliberately targeting Muslim communities in the ongoing eviction drives under the pretext of forest conservation.
According to Kashmir Media Service, AIUDF legislators Rafiqul Islam, Aminul Islam and Ashraful Hussain at a press conference in Hatigaon launched a scathing attack on the government over the ongoing eviction campaign in Muslim-dominated localities in Goalpara, Dhubri, Kachutoli, and adjoining areas and described the evictions as inhumane, unconstitutional, and politically motivated.
Rafiqul Islam, also the party’s general secretary, said authorities have embarked on the campaign flouting court orders and carrying out evictions during the judiciary’s vacation period.
He said that the Forest Department had failed to produce accurate land records in court after residents challenged the evictions. “Many of the evicted areas are not classified as forest land, but were arbitrarily declared so by the administration,” media reports quoted Islam as saying.
The AIUDF has demanded allotment of at least 7 bighas of land to every displaced family, in line with an earlier assurance given by the chief minister in the assembly. “If land can be gifted to Adani and Ambani, why can’t the government rehabilitate these homeless families?” Islam questioned.
Islam said that the ongoing evictions are a strategic move to clear land for corporate interests. “The people need to ask—are these drives really about protecting the forests, or clearing land for Adani?” he said.
“The government is holding the people of Assam hostage and trying to use fear, force, or emotional tactics to ensure electoral advantage in 2026,” he said, referring to a previous instance of communal unrest in Assam.
The AIUDF leaders pledged to resist what they called the government’s “fascist and anarchic” actions. They called for judicial intervention and urged human rights bodies to take immediate notice of the evictions.
