An anti-displacement team of scholars from JNU andDelhi University, which visitedDholpurin Darrang district where a massive eviction drive in September had left hundreds of people homeless, said on Tuesday that the evicted minorities have become stateless within the state.
The Assam government has started a state Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture project in the Dholpur area involving local youths, but not the 1,000 odd evicted Muslim families who are now taking shelter in makeshift camps near the Brahmaputra.
The Brahmaputra and its tributaries have led to the erosion of vast tracts of land in different parts of the state resulting in forced voluntary internal Migration of the people within the state. The displaced Muslim farmers have found some solace in Dholpur.