“As 2025 nears end, here’s how the Assam government conducted demolition drives throughout the year to remove illegal encroachments”, Opindia, december 08, 2025
“From vast swathes of land to small plots or houses, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has made it his life mission to reclaim government, forest and community lands, illegally encroached upon. In over a dozen demolition drives, the state government has freed thousands of acres of land from encroachers, who are often illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators.
Despite the Islamo-leftist cabal peddling ‘Muslim victimhood’ narratives, the CM Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government’s “bulldozer action” to clear illegal encroachments continues uninterrupted. The Assam government has been undertaking a broader campaign to free public and forest land from illegal occupation.
A series of such drives has taken place across several districts since Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma assumed office in 2021. CM Sarma’s government has maintained it is trying to stop the “demographic invasion” of the state by infiltrators. The Chief Minister has repeatedly stated that these evictions are not communal but are necessary to protect government and forest land from illegal occupation as well as to ensure that the state’s religious demography is not systematically altered…….”
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