The Communal Politics of Evictions in Assam: Looking back at Dhalpur

As more people shift from Dhalpur to Shyampur, the newly settled families are being allotted even less than one bigha land, while the rehabilitation sites lack basic infrastructure such as access roads, electricity and toilets.

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https://thewire.in/rights/the-communal-politics-of-evictions-in-assam-looking-back-at-dhalpur

Fact check: Are illegal Bangladeshi migrants responsible for increase in Assam's Muslim population?

As National Register of Citizens is updated to identify illegal immigrants, a former statistics professor’s book busts a few myths about the state’s demography. Ajaz Ashraf writes.

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https://scroll.in/article/864879/illegal-bangladeshi-migrants-are-not-responsible-for-the-increase-in-assam-s-muslim-population

‘No Muslim can win, now or in the future’: In Assam’s Barpeta, delimitation fears confirmed

The demographic profile of the parliamentary constituency has been radically altered. For the first time, no major party had fielded a Muslim candidate.

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https://scroll.in/article/1067465/no-muslim-can-win-now-or-in-the-future-in-assams-barpeta-delimitation-fears-confirmed

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Why Assam’s Muslims see discrimination in state’s flagship scheme for the rural landless

The Assam chief minister recently declared that neither Bengali-origin nor ethnic Assamese Muslims qualify for the scheme. Legislators and experts contest this.

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https://scroll.in/article/1063970/why-assams-muslims-see-discrimination-in-states-flagship-scheme-for-the-rural-landless

41 years of Nellie massacre: A pre-Godhra chapter for New India, with Assam’s ‘wage of indigenousness’

The symbolic violence of Nellie singes minorities in Assam today more than anything. Suraj Gogoi writes.

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https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/02/19/41-years-of-nellie-massacre-a-pre-godhra-chapter-for-new-india-with-assams-wage-of-indigenousness

The Nellie Massacre Remains All But Forgotten

How was this carnage reduced to an event that seems to hold little significance in the public memory today? The answer may lie at the nexus of questionable political decisions, an ineffective legal system, an indifferent media and the lack of political representation for Bengali Muslims in Assam.

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https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/thirty-two-years-later-nellie-massacre-remains-all-forgotten

BJP doesn’t need ‘Miya’ votes for 10 years, says Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

The chief minister said that the ‘Miya’ people can vote for the saffron party after following family planning and stopping child marriage.

https://scroll.in/latest/1056910/bjp-doesnt-need-miya-votes-for-10-years-says-assam-cm-himanta-biswa-sarma

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In Gurugram, 60 days after arson and fire

Two months after violence hit Delhi’s corporate suburb, Muslims who fled their temporary houses to go back to West Bengal, where they felt safer, are back. At home, in some of the State’s least developed areas mainly bordering Bangladesh, there are few jobs and little opportunity. Caught between hunger pangs and threats, Alisha Dutta and Samridhi Tewari ask why they picked the latter.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/in-gurugram-60-days-after-arson-and-fire/article67360248.ece

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Miya Muslims responsible for surge in vegetable prices: Assam CM

“I urge the Assamese youths to come forward and I assure you that I would drive away all the ‘Miya’ Muslim vegetable sellers from the city.”

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https://hindutvawatch.org/miya-muslims-responsible-for-surge-in-vegetable-prices-assam-cm-siasat/