India: 400 Bengali-Origin Muslim Households Displaced in Assam

India’s Assam government carried out an eviction drive on Monday in the Dhalpur Char region, forcibly removing around 400 Bengali-origin Muslim families and demolishing their makeshift homes, Muslim Mirror reported yesterday.

This is not the first time these families have faced such a situation, as a similar violent eviction took place in September 2021, resulting in the destruction of 1,418 houses, 48 shops, and three mosques, leaving an estimated 7,000 people homeless.

According to the news agency, residents were given little notice before their homes were razed, leaving them without a place to turn.

The ongoing displacement of these vulnerable Muslim communities raises significant humanitarian concerns, highlighting the ongoing discrimination against adherents of Islam in India under Hindutva and nationalist agendas.