450 Muslim families evicted in India
September 27, 20242 Mins Read
International Desk: 450 families have been evicted from the reserved forest area of ​​Goalpara district of Western Assam, India. These families have been referred to as 'illegal occupiers' by the government. However, the Hindutva organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) newspaper Organiser, identified the families as 'Muslim families of Bangladeshi origin'.

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Hindustan Times reported that they were evicted on Tuesday.

The number of 450 evicted families is 2000. Government officials mentioned that 55-60 hectares of forest area has been cleared due to eviction.

Tejas Mariswamy, divisional forest officer of Goalpara, said that encroachers were removed from the area of ​​55-60 hectares by raiding 118 hectares of Bandarmatha Reserve Forest in Lakhipur range of Goalpara district.

Tejas Mariswamy said, the Guwahati High Court has ordered the encroachment of all reserved forest areas in Goalpara. Evacuation operations are being carried out according to that order. Goalpara has the highest number of human-elephant conflicts in the entire country. He said, after cleaning the area, afforestation initiatives will be taken. The area will be made habitable for elephants.

Local people said the Islamists occupied the reserved forest area between 2001 and 2016 during the Congress government.

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It has been said in the RSS magazine Organiser, that those against whom this eviction campaign has been carried out are all of Bangladeshi origin. According to the newspaper, local people said that the Islamists had encroached on the reserved forest area during the Congress government between 2001 and 2016