A recent pattern of state-sanctioned forest eviction Two recent eviction drives, one in September 2021 drives in the northeast Indian state of Assam with and another in December 2022, allegedly “targeted” the purported aim of increasing the state’s forest Muslim communities, resulting in fatal violence and cover have raised questions about growing Assamese displacing thousands. [...] The violent repercussions of nationalism and anti-Muslim sentiment in the state, these actions have made the eviction victims wary of particularly in the aftermath of the exclusionary protesting. [...] During the in the Pava Reserve Forest in Lakhimpur district, December 2022 Darrang evictions, the Assamese displacing 300 families, mostly Bengali Muslims, government stated that the land was required for who were allegedly encroaching upon the forest land. [...] The BJP won nine of Assam’s 14 boundary, and in effect, 500 Hindu families also Lok Sabha seats in 2019 and aims to increase that residing on the land were unaffected by the redrawn number to 12 in 2024. [...] Since December cent of the total increase in encroachment of forest 2019, many in Assam have protested the inclusion of land during the 2002-22 period, while also being the immigrants in general, irrespective of their religion, a only state in northeast India to record an increase in factor underscored by the ongoing anti-CAA protests forest cover.
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