Students' union seeks ILP to ensure land rights for natives
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Guwahati: Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad (AJYCP), a students' union here, while extending support to the ongoing eviction drives to clear encroachment from forest and govt land, demanded the govt ensure that land rights remain with indigenous people and do not go to migrated Muslims with roots in Bangladesh and those from other states staying here.
State govt conducted eviction drives at Chapar in Dhubri, at Hasila Beel and Paikan Reserve Forest in Goalpara, and Uriamghat in Golaghat district in the last two months. President of the students' body, Palash Changmai, said evicting the people is not the final solution to infiltration into the state as they will move to another place after being evicted from one place.
"We need a permanent solution. It must be ensured that land rights remain with indigenous people, and does not go to those coming from other states or those who were evicted from forest or govt land now," he added.
He said the student body's demand to enforce inner line permit in the state, which is a long-pending demand, might ensure that land rights remain in the hands of indigenous people.
The students' body organised a demonstration in Guwahati on Tuesday, demanding that the govt ensure the protection of the land rights of the indigenous people. On the other hand, the Kamrup Metropolitan District Committee of the CPM staged a protest in Guwahati, demanding a halt to evictions without alternative arrangements, proper rehabilitation and compensation for those evicted, an end to inflammatory communal propaganda and a stop to the corporate plundering of Assam's land.
Hundreds of members and supporters from the district gathered to voice these demands.
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