Goalpara, India (Reuters) -Clean the Blue Sea Sea in the northeastern Indian corner near Bangladesh, hundreds of Muslim men, women and baby refugees after being evicted from your home, in the last deal before the state elections.
They are among thousands of families whose houses have been handed over in recent weeks in the last few weeks – the most intense action of such an act in several decades – who have accused them of illegally staying on government land.
Demolition in Assame, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi Nationalist Party will look for re -election early next year, from Bangladesh August. It will coincide with the Legal Infiltrators of the National Bengal Muslims from Bangladesh.
“The government has repeatedly harassed us,” said Aran Ali, a 53 -year -old, speaking behind the bare land patch in the Gaters district of the Assam, which has become a urgent home for three family members.
“We were accused of being encroachers and foreigners,” said Ali, born in Assame when the burning July sun broke the settlement.
Assam consists of a 262 km of Indian 4097 km long wall with Bangladesh and has long encountered anti-immigrants’ moods that originated in fear that Bengali migrants-Tiek Hindus, both Muslims, will conquer local culture and economics from the neighboring country, from the neighboring country.
The latest printing, led by Modi Bharatiya Janata party, was only for Muslims and encouraged teenagers a few days ago.
The Chief Minister of Assam Firebrand Himanta Biswa Sarma, among the many ambitious BJP leaders accused of shocks of religious strife to trigger populist feelings against surveys across the country, says “Muslim infiltrators from Bangladesh” threatens Indian identity.
“We are fearless to the continuing, unscrewed penetration of Muslims from the entire border, which has already caused a disturbing demographic shift,” he recently said X.
“In several districts, Hindus is now on the doorstep to become a minority on their land.”
He told reporters last week that Muslims Muslims make up 30% of the 31 million people of Assam since 2011. Census.
“After a few years, the population of Assam’s minorities will be almost 50%,” he said.
Sarma did not respond to Reuters’ request to comment.
“Various targets”
The BJP has long thought that Indian Indian Indian India was a natural homeland for all Hinduists and implemented a policy to fight large Muslims in the country.
2019 It amended the Indian Citizenship Act to ensure that non -document -free non -Muslim migrants were effective from neighboring countries.
Since 2021 May He became the chief minister, the Sarma government evicted 50,000 people – mostly Bengal Muslims – from 160 square kilometers of land, and more planned.
In the last month alone, about 3,400 Bengal Muslim houses were attacked by five eviction discs throughout the ASSAM city based on state data. Previous Government in five years until 2021. About 4,700 families evicted the beginning.
“Bengal-speaking Muslims, despite their legal status, have become vulnerable targets of right-wing groups in India,” said Viešeen Donthi, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group.
Indian opposition leaders have accused Sarma for eviction and displacement of polarized voters before the election.
“These measures BJP are politically useful and profitable,” said the opposition legislator Akhil Gogoi.
The main party of the Opposition Congress, whose compressive defeat in 2016 In the Asam election, the BJP gave his first state government, arguing that it would rebuild the demolished homes and imprison those who destroyed them if they voted back to power.
“Push back”
The influx of the EkcTo occurred after the deadly April. Kashmir’s Indian tourist attack, accusing “terrorists” from the majority of Pakistan Muslims, denies the Islamabad’s accusation. Since then, the BJP -controlled states have rounded thousands of Bengal Muslims, calling them suspected “illegal immigrants” and potential security risks.
Analysts say that the links between the new Delhi and Daka after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have enhanced their feelings against Bengal -speaking Muslims, giving the BJP political weapon that could be used for votes.
Bengali is the main language of Bangladesh Muslims in most of the language and is also widely spoken in Indian parts.
The states, including Assam, also “released” hundreds of Bengal Muslims into Bangladesh. Some were returned because the appeals defending their non -India status were heard in court, Reuters said.
Assam officials say the state tribunals have announced about 30,000 people. Such people are usually long -term populations with families and land and activists say that many of them are often incorrectly classified as foreigners and are too poor to challenge court decisions.
New Delhi 2016 Stated that there were about 20 million illegal migrants in Bangladesh in India.
“The Indian government is raising thousands of vulnerable people who are threatened with the obvious pursuit of illegal immigrants, but their actions reflect more discriminatory Muslim policies,” said Elaine Pearson, Director of Asian Human Rights Watch.
The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in May that the country had a list of 2,369 persons deported to Bangladesh. This urged Bangladesh to speed up the inspection process.
The Bangladesh Foreign Ministry did not respond to the request to comment.
Sarma often shared details of infiltration trials from Hasina’s removal and increased attacks against Hindus in Bangladesh, and pictures caught in social media.
“Ethnonationalism, which has long brightened Asam’s policy, has a smooth merger with BJP religious nationalism,” Donthi said.
“Then the focus of Bengal -speaking bystanders moved to Bengali -speaking Muslims.”
(RonTORT by Agerwala; Eid LED, EDIINGNA N