Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the names of people evicted from encroached land will be deleted from the voters’ list of the place where they were living illegally.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a programme in Margherita in Tinsukia, Sarma claimed the previous generation of the state failed to “save” lower and central Assam, but efforts must be made to “save” upper and northern parts, in an apparent reference to the sizeable population of Bengali-speaking Muslims in those areas.
“If someone is evicted from a place, their name cannot be on the voter list of that place. Along with eviction, names will be deleted from the voter list,” he said.
“Their modus operandi is to enter upper and northern Assam now. Our attempt is to ensure that, like lower and central Assam, these parts are not gone. We and our previous generation failed to save lower and central Assam, but we are now trying to save upper and northern Assam,” he added.
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