Overview

• Hundreds of AAMSU members staged a rain-soaked protest at Bilasipara in Dhubri on Monday against the state’s eviction drives.
• Police detained All Assam Minority Students’ Union leader Rezaul Karim Sarkar during the demonstration and transferred him to Chapar police station amid scuffles.
• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma warned that further protests will only prompt intensified clearance operations targeting alleged encroachers.
• Sarma emphasized the drives focus on ‘Miya-Muslims’ accused of settling on forest and grazing reserves and do not target broader minority communities.
• The government reinforced its push for a Special Intensive Revision of voter lists linked to Aadhaar while some eviction orders remain paused under a Gauhati High Court interim stay.