Guwahati, July 12: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), a forum of nationalist citizens in northeast India, while appreciating the State government for its decisive actions to regain thousands of encroached lands from the clutches of illegal settlers, has also emphasized on proper initiatives to compensate the evicted families under the law.
The forum admits that the indigenous population of Assam will support the series of eviction drives, which were due for decades under successive governments in Dispur. It also asserted that Asomiya is neither weak nor maintaining a low self-esteem that any motivated element can emerge and blackmail the community with no rebuttal.
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“Meanwhile, it’s observed that some media outlets start using the term Bengali-origin Muslim community to identify a section of evicted people in Assam. Nobody knows why they are shy of using the term Bangladesh-origin or East Pakistan-origin to recognize the millions of families who entered Assam from the neighboring country. Are they afraid of creating any resentment by using the words Bangladesh and East Pakistan among the Asomiya people or they think of making us fool?” concluded the PPFA statement.
(Nava Thakuria is a senior Indian journalist who contributes to various media outlets including print and digital platforms of India and across the world.)