On August 21, the Working Committee of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH), chaired by its president Maulana Mahmood Madani, passed strong resolutions against the mass displacement of families in Assam and the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
At a meeting held on Wednesday evening, with members and invitees joining virtually from across India, the Committee expressed grave concern over recent eviction drives in Assam that, according to the organisation, have left more than 50,000 families homeless.
In a sharply worded resolution, the JUH called upon India’s constitutional authorities—including the President and the Chief Justice of India—to immediately remove Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and initiate criminal proceedings against him under hate speech laws.
The organisation cited Sarma’s recent remark, “We are only evicting Miya Muslims,” as “blatant proof of communal bias.” It noted that every displaced family so far belonged to the Muslim community, underscoring what it described as the discriminatory nature of the campaign.
“While JUH has always opposed illegal encroachments on government land, the current eviction drives are being carried out in an inhumane, unconstitutional, and discriminatory manner, motivated by prejudice and hate-filled rhetoric,” the resolution stated.
The Committee demanded immediate rehabilitation and alternative housing for the displaced families, impartial surveys before any eviction, and restraint from public officials in making inflammatory or communal remarks.
On the international front, the JUH voiced deep anguish over the situation in Palestine, condemning what it called genocide in Gaza. The Committee denounced the killing of nearly 100,000 civilians, starvation as a weapon of war, and the annexation of Gaza under Israel’s “Greater Israel” agenda.
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