“Why this Hindu majority village in Santhal Pargana of Jharkhand is asking for a Central Police Force camp”, Organiser, November 13, 2024:
“As part of the election coverage, the Organiser team travelled through various areas in Jharkhand, including Pakur, a town within the contentious Santhal Pargana region.
The Santhal Pargana region in Jharkhand has emerged as a battleground ahead of the state assembly polls, with political parties like the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) raising concerns over illegal settlements of Bangladeshis. The BJP has accused the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) government of allowing these settlements to persist, which it claims could shift the region’s demographics.
In the past few years, many areas of the Santhal Pargana region had to bear the brunt of the rising Muslim population, which could be because of two major reasons—one could be organic and the other could be rising illegal settlements…….”
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