Guwahati, DEC 20: The Assam Assembly on Tuesday witnessed chaotic scenes with opposition staging walkout after rejection of an adjournment motion to discuss the eviction matter.
After the Question Hour on the first day of the Winter Session, Speaker Biswajit Daimary informed the House that he has rejected the motion brought by All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) to discuss the eviction drive at Batadrava in central Assam district of Nagaon.
Talking to media persons, Opposition leader Debabrata Saikia said, “The government must examine what type of treatment they are giving to the people who are living more than 30 years in that place. They are Indian citizen then why government has been evicting them from the land. The government should provide land to the landless people. The government have policies for landless people and the goverment have a responsibility to provide land for that people who were evicted”.
“The government should provide alternative to them otherwise they will become shelterless and it will become burden for the nation. If people will left on roads after evicting from their place then it will become a social problem. But the BJP goverment is repeatedly carrying out eviction drive in Assam. The government should follow set norms of a civilized government and they should give alternative accommodation to the people,” Saikia said.
.State Cabinet minister Ashok Singal said justified the eviction drive at Batadrava carrying out by their government. “We are carrying out eviction dive at Batadrava which was a birth place of Srimanta Shankardev. The illegal encroaches captured the land for years and now we are carrying out eviction drive to free the land from them. They are “aggressors” who have captured the Satra land and it’s our duty and religion to free the land from the aggressors”.
The Assam government which has been carrying out an ongoing drive to evict encroachers on land belonging to the government or Vaishnavite Sattras (monasteries), on Monday launched eviction operations at medieval saint Srimanta Sankardeva’s birthplace.
On the other hand, AIUDF also stage walkout after rejection of an adjournment motion to discuss the eviction matter.