Opposition parties including Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) and Congress leader have asked Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to clarify if there are plans to settle Chakma community from Arunachal Pradesh to Assam.
Prabajan Virodhi Manch criticizes the lack of focus on protecting indigenous identity in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The political discourse has shifted towards migrant Muslim votes, neglecting the issues of re-verification of NRC and the projected minority status of Assam s indigenous population.
The delimitation process and the draft delimitation of constituencies are being claimed to be measures to safeguard the identity of the indigenous people of Assam but this claim is false and without.