The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for the state government’s ongoing eviction operations, declaring that the drives will not stop until every inch of illegally occupied land is reclaimed. “This is not merely an administrative step; it is the final battle to safeguard the very existence of Assam,” said the BJP, Assam Pradesh, in an official statement.
BJP spokesperson Kalyan Gogoi, echoing Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s position, said, “If anyone believes that a few eviction operations will make us retreat, or that we will bow before intimidating eyes or political pressure, let them be clear—our struggle will not stop until we have accounted for the sacrifices of the martyrs of the Assam movement.”
Gogoi praised the eviction drive as a decisive measure to secure the future of Assam’s indigenous communities and accused the Congress of historically enabling demographic change for political advantage. He alleged that Congress allowed “unchecked settlement of Bangladeshi Muslims trampling over the sacred sacrifice of 855 martyrs of the Assam Movement for petty electoral gains.” According to Gogoi, this contributed to what he described as an existential crisis for the Assamese people.
