HT Correspondent
SIVASAGAR, Aug 8: Even as the Sivasagar District Administration called for utmost restraint to all individuals and organisations in the interest of peace and harmony two days ago, 20 indigenous groups today held a chinton-baithak (consultative discussion) at KPM Hall and called on all Miyan people to leave Upper Assam by August 15.
The group leaders later addressed a press meet.
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Calling for an illegal citizen-free Upper Assam, the meeting adopted an 11-point charter of resolutions and urged the government to identify and deport all suspected citizens illegally residing in the state in the interest of building an indigenous people-dominated Assam.
In a significant move, the organisations unanimously resolved that the base year for identification of foreign nationals should be 1951, though the Assam Accord made it March 24, 1971.
Through another resolution, the meeting fully supported the current Assam Government’s campaign to free government land, forest land, tribal belt land, etc, from encroachers of suspected citizenship throughout Assam.
They demanded the eviction of encroachments on all lands belonging to ancient monuments, Debuttar land, forest reserves, swamps and reservoirs.
In this regard, the meeting demanded an eviction drive in Jamuna canal, Khatopathar Chintamonigarh, and lands near river Dikhow close to Durbar Field in Sivasagar town.
The meeting demanded that the names of suspected citizens be deleted from the voter lists of Assam as soon as possible to build a foreigner-free Assam.
The Government of Assam and various ethnic groups of Assam should openly support the eviction programme and arrest those who threaten indigenous people under the relevant provisions of law immediately.
The police administration, the meeting opined, should check the documents of suspected citizens who are tenants in various parts of Upper Assam and arrange for their deportation to Lower Assam as soon as possible.
It also urged the police administration to identify suspected citizens employed in various activities such as private contractors, brick quarries, dumps, etc., and issue notices to them to report to the police station.
It also called upon Assamese people to refrain from selling land to foreign suspects for a secure future.
The meeting called upon indigenous organisations to support and cooperate with the indigenous Muslim people of Assam in this campaign to build a foreigner-free Assam.
The participant groups resolved to hold a massive rally on August 20 to determine the next phase of agitation.
The leaders attending the meeting included Debajit Dutta, Chitu Baruah, Mahendra Ahom, Diganta Tamuly, and many others.
