The drive to evict encroachers from forest land in Assam's Lakhimpur district continued for the second day on Wednesday, with 299 families residing on a 250-hectare tract left in the lurch.
Amid the protest by political parties and organizations against the Assam government s decision to merge four districts with the original undivided districts, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that the government does not need any support from the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and All Assam Minority Students Union (AAMSU) regarding the re-designing of district boundaries of the state.
The BJP claims delimitation will help the state’s ‘indigenous’ groups while opposition parties say it will further marginalise Muslims of Bengali origin.