Recently Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal has plead the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to direct the Assam government to stop the ongoing eviction drive, which he stated as “selective and discriminatory” in nature and is targeting a selected community.
Badruddin Ajmal is the chief of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Indian businessman, politician, philanthropist and an Islamic theologian. He has sent two different letters to both 'Prime Minister and Home Minister'
'saying that Assam government is carrying out eviction drives even in chilling winters making thousand of poor people homeless and causing trouble for the general public.
Badruddin Ajmal said in the letter that, “This inhuman action must be stopped immediately, at least in this shivering cold season on humanity grounds and from the perspective of human rights”.
"Respected sir, I request you to direct the Assam government to stop inhuman eviction at least in the winter season, to provide land and financial help to the landless and homeless poor affected families without any discrimination before carrying out the eviction, and to stop selective manner and discriminatory policy in eviction drive," Ajmal said in the letter he has written down to both Modi and Shah.
Government of Assam has been evicting out the residents from their houses without providing them any further rehabilitation space, not providing alternate places to the effected poor families and subsequently forcing them to live under the open sky as per Ajmal allegations.
On Tuesday and Wednesday Assam Government has gone ahead with the eviction drive in the state clearing out the 450 hectares of forest and land from around 500 families of alleged encroachers who are mostly Bengali speaking Muslims, in Lakhimpur district.
“People are being evicted from places where they had been living for decades. The most objectionable point is that the eviction drive is initiated in a selective and discriminatory manner targeting one community,” said by Ajmal.
He further said that “but it is also an undeniable fact that Assam is the state where flood and erosion make thousands of people homeless and landless every year. They take shelter on government land because they do not have any other option. So, such poor affected families, who do not have any other place to live, must be rehabilitated after proper inquiry without any discrimination on the basis of caste, creed and religion because it is government’s responsibility to provide home to homeless and land to landless people of the state”.
The eviction drive in the state is third major eviction in Assam within a month. The first has happened on the December 19, in Nagaon’s Batadrava which has uprooted more than 5,000 encroachers, which is the largest evacuation process in the state. After which on December 26, 400 Bighas has been uprooted in Barpeta.
Badruddin Ajmal has further cleared that AIUDF is not in favors of illegal encroachment of government land and they does not have any objection if illegal encroachment are evicted. But they should be done in a proper manner.
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