no more needed . Ajan Fakir is past once they have surrendered to the aggressive Hindutva of the Cow Belt . The rise of the BJP ended the obligation of taking shelter to hypocritical secularism . It has now become a common affair to find from big leaders to smaller fries of “ nationalism ”, from opportunists selling their secular values to chauvinism even to the so-called left intellectuals and ‘ popular artists ’ clad in saffron .
Himant Bishwasharma has turned to be today ’ s “ real hero ”. It started from the days of great Bordoloi by dividing Sylhet district a part of Assam during British rule and communal violence throughout Lower Assam during 1950 that forced the Muslims to bow down to record themselves as Assamese speakers during the Linguistic Census . As a result it became easy to make Assamese as state language by means of short circuiting the ongoing natural and spontaneous process of developing nationalism through peaceful democratic means and importing a new trend of developing Assamese nationality by means of force and its attitude instead .
Himant Bishwasharma has become a new icon by developing a policy of presenting inverted reality of Assam . From the beginning it had been a tactic to make the people outside Assam believe the attacked or aggressed as attacker or aggressor , even after Nellie and Gohpur . Himant Bishwasharma has developed that policy into an art . By championing the interests of big capitalists of India he has succeeded in mobilising support of the Students Union and so-called nationalist organizations for the policy of eviction in the name of national interest .
Eviction drive was dressed up as development , blueprint of communalisation of the drive was drawn , destruction process of human lives and livinghoods as well as environment in gigantic scale started , all in the interest of big capital ‘ Nationalism ’. Politics of November - 2021 communal polarization and utilization of conflict among ethnicities is being used to compliment that interest . This reality is hard to be understood by people outside Assam ; even the opposition could not understand it .
Behind assuring the electoral victory and putting of Himant Bishwasharma on the seat of Chief Minister both written and unwritten understanding was to implement the “ policy of eviction driven development ”. Principal understanding of the policy is to evict peasants in large scale and hand over the land to the corporates . This is part of the Modi Government ’ s path of restructuring agrarian areas which were assuring continuous GDP growth anew to serve the interest of big capital .
The Central Government ’ s declaration to prioritise palm for edible oil and development of palm plantation was followed by pointing out North- East as suitable region for plantation of palm trees . According to some knowledgeable sources palm culture is harmful for environment . Maybe afraid of resistance in other states they selected North-East for that purpose .
In Assam most of the lands excepting the forest areas are vested to the government .
A huge section of toiling masses till those lands or dwell there . In the tribal areas most of the people do not have any land deed . Throughout the length and breadth of the state including the char ( riverine Islands or lands coming out of the river ) areas longstanding demand for land deeds ( patta ) is there for decades . The peasants are cultivating those lands year after year and produce valuable food grains and vegetables . In the char areas most of the poor peasants are Muslims of Bengali origin . On other border areas of the state and by the side of forest reserves reside tribals , Nepalis and indigenous people in huge numbers .
The sword of eviction hangs over all these people . But state has very cleverly made the “ miyan ” s their first target . Anybody visiting the eviction site can clearly understand how cleverly the drive was planned targeting the miyans first using the propaganda machine of the so-called nationalist forces and media as well as that of the Sangh Parivar .
Most of the people of Dhalpur circle have settled there after losing their lands due to flood . Some had been displaced 3 / 4 times . Some are living here for decades . Through inhuman toil they have turned the virgin soil of the char of Brahmaputra into a green belt producing food grains and vegetables . One of the most popular vegetables in Guwahati is “ Kuruar shak ” ( vegetables of Kurua ). In the last few decades the peasant population of the villages of Dhalpur circle have built up school , market , Angawadi Centres etc .
But a few data will make people understand how the people are internally displaced and are branded as foreign settlers by the chauvinist organizations and media .
In the 1990s the area of Dhalpur was 77,420 bighas . Recently in reply to a question by Manoranjan Das the government informed the state assembly that it has become 25929 bigha 8 lecha . What happened to the other lands ? To understand it an information will suffice . According to government record , two villages Kurua and NC Kirkara had lands 10,000 bigha and 41488 bigha 3 cotha 12 lecha respectively . Now both of them had gone into deep waters of Brahmaputra .
Experiences of these two villages are enough to understand the depth of the problem of internal displacement . There are many judgments of the higher courts , even UN Mandate to address the problem . But turning deaf ears to them eviction drive to forcibly displace them once more is being carried out even in this pandemic situation .
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