Assam Evictions Spark Row as Jamiat Alleges Communal Targeting; CM Reacts

Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Tuesday accused the Assam government of disproportionately targeting Muslim families in its eviction drives and urged CJIB R Gavai to take suo motu cognizance of what it described as an "unlawful and communal campaign".

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Jamiat president Maulana Arshad Madani claimed that bulldozers were being deployed selectively against Muslim settlements, alleging that "more than 50,000 Muslim families" faced eviction.

"It is not just Muslim homes being demolished — it is the Constitution and the rule of law that are being crushed in Assam," Madani told members of the organisation's working committee in Delhi.

His comments came days after the state government launched the second phase of evictions inside the Rengma Reserve Forest in Golaghat district, displacing nearly 230 families to clear encroached land.