By Umanand Jaiswal
The Opposition AIUDF in Assam has written to the state police chief to ensure the safety of “bonafide” Indian citizens who are being “threatened” to leave Upper Assam by certain organisations that are branding them as foreigners.
In a representation to Assam director-general of police (DGP), H. Singh, on Sunday, the AIUDF stated the “deeply disturbing incidents” being reported from various parts of Upper Assam where certain groups and organisations are threatening “bonafide Indian families” hailing from Central and Upper Assam, who are mostly residing in rented houses.
The party claimed that the members of these organisations are forcefully entering their houses and defaming them by falsely branding them as “foreigners”.
They are reportedly creating pressure on the house owners to ask the “Miya occupants” to vacate their rented houses and leave Upper Assam, “creating an atmosphere of fear, insecurity and communal disharmony”, the letter stated.
The letter was signed by six AIUDF leaders, including four MLAs.
Miyas are Bengali-origin/Bengali-speaking Muslims, who are often branded as Bangladeshis illegally settled in Assam.
Though the AIUDF has not named anyone or any organisation, the letter was submitted on a day when a video surfaced showing a leader of the Jatiya Sangrami Sena purportedly threatening a Miya person “to vacate Upper Assam within 24 hours”.
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