“Rising Muslim Demographics in India’s Northeast”, My India Maker, October 14, 2025
“Assam Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma recently predicted that the population of Bangladeshi Muslims (often referred to as Miya in local Assamese parlance) in Assam is likely to rise to 38 per cent in the upcoming Census, up from about 34 per cent in 2011. While claiming that the Muslim population is increasing in the state due to “infiltration” rather than natural growth among local Muslims, he noted that this increase could make Muslims the largest community in Assam in terms of numerical strength. He further stated that districts like Majuli, the heart of Assamese Vaishnavite culture and traditions, have experienced 100 per cent growth in their Muslim population. What is most concerning is that the Muslim population in the state is growing significantly; however, Hindus now account for only 40 per cent of the state’s total population, as claimed by the Hon’ble Chief Minister himself. It is true that Assam has undergone a marked shift in its population composition over the years, especially after 1985, i.e., following the signing of the Assam Accord.
Despite the BSF guarding India’s borders with Bangladesh, the unchecked influx of illegal immigrants has completely altered the demographic profile in several border districts of Assam, leading to an unnatural increase in the total population of the state. The demography of many districts has been transformed without war within a time span of hardly two generations. This is nothing but a planned aggression against the Assamese people by Bangladeshi Islamists via committing crimes such as rape and molestation against Assamese Hindu women, or converting them into Islam on the pretext of marriage and sometimes even force-feeding them beef; stealing property; cutting crops from fields owned by native Assamese and destroying the fishes in their ponds and fisheries; destroying the dairy farming industry through systematic stealing of cattle and other milch animals; trapping youngsters into drugs and alcohol; forcible occupation of lands; desecration of Hindu temples, Sattras and Namghars, and even killing the religious heads of these institutions; human trafficking, prostitution and AIDS
However, the problem is certainly not confined to Assam alone, especially in the context of the North-East. Illegal immigration has been going on in other states of the region, too, on a large scale. Besides the Kuki-Zo people from Myanmar, Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims have infiltrated into different parts of the North-East, especially Mizoram, where they are working as both skilled and unskilled labourers. In Manipur, there has been a sudden increase in the number of people who cannot speak or understand a single Manipuri word but move around freely in many parts of the state. Immigrant Muslims, mostly illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas, fraternise in vast numbers with the Pangals (local Muslims) in several regions of the Valley districts of Manipur, especially Kakching, Thoubal, Bishnupur, Imphal East and Imphal West. They have even married, bought lands and settled in the state. For instance, at a place called Lilong in Thoubal district, a significant number of Muslim immigrants have entered into marital alliances with local Muslim girls and settled there……”
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