Northeastern View | Why the recent Karbi-Hindi tensions in Assam is a tricky situation for the BJP
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Northeastern View | Why the recent Karbi-Hindi tensions in Assam is a tricky situation for the BJP

Hindustan Times  

In late February, the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council ordered the eviction of more than 2,000 families belonging to the Hindi-speaking Nonia community living in various parts of the hill districts between northern and southern Assam. Karbi groups, such as the Karbi Students’ Association, allege that the Hindi-speaking Nonia, an Other Backward Caste agrarian community with origins in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, have been occupying reserved grazing land across the hills. While it isn’t the first time that Hindi-speaking communities have been at the sharp receiving end of indigenous assertion in Karbi Anglong or even Assam, this friction points to the underlying tension between ethnonationalism in the Northeast and the nationalism of the Hindutva ideology. Hindi-speaking communities who migrated to the Northeast from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, through the postcolonial period came about to dominate the region’s local trading ecosystems and parts of the lower-tier labour economy.

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Northeastern View | Assam’s history shows that communal provocations can lead to ugly places
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Northeastern View | Assam’s history shows that communal provocations can lead to ugly places

Hindustan Times  

In recent weeks, Assam has seen a sharp spike in sectarian rhetoric against Bengali-speaking Muslims, also known as “Miya Muslims”. Local organisations immediately blamed the Miya community for the crime, which was further aided by subtle insinuations made by the state’s chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, against what he called a “section of society”. Meanwhile, media reports suggest that some …

AIUDF meets Assam Governor, seeks action against communal groups
3 months, 3 weeks ago

AIUDF meets Assam Governor, seeks action against communal groups

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI The minority-based All India United Democratic Front on Monday submitted a memorandum to Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya, seeking action against several organisations that have asked migrant Muslims to leave the eastern Assam districts or face the consequences. At least 30 organisations claiming to represent indigenous communities had set a week’s deadline for Bengal-origin migrant Muslims, derisively referred to as …

Congress, three regional parties discuss front for 2026 Assam Assembly election
7 months ago

Congress, three regional parties discuss front for 2026 Assam Assembly election

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI Top leaders of the Assam unit of Congress and three anti-BJP regional parties met Tuesday night for a potential front to contest the 2026 State Assembly election together. They also discussed the possibility of forming an umbrella organisation of anti-BJP regional parties “to safeguard the regional interests of Assam and its indigenous peoples” and encourage small political parties representing …

INTERVIEW| CAA won't impact Assam's indigenous people; IMDT was discriminatory: Union Minister Sonowal
8 months, 2 weeks ago

INTERVIEW| CAA won't impact Assam's indigenous people; IMDT was discriminatory: Union Minister Sonowal

New Indian Express  

GUWAHATI: Union Minister and BJP candidate in Dibrugarh, Sarbananda Sonowal, expressed confidence on Sunday in the party securing a third term and reaching the 400-seat target set for the National Democratic Alliance. Speaking about the Citizenship Amendment Act, the former Assam CM said that it won't impact the identity of indigenous people in the state and accused the Congress of …

Odisha: Who Holds Edge in Country’s Much Talked-about Poverty-stricken Kalahandi LS Seat?
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Odisha: Who Holds Edge in Country’s Much Talked-about Poverty-stricken Kalahandi LS Seat?

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhubaneswar: The name of Odisha’s Kalahandi district has always sprung up in the arena of national politics several times in the past, - largely due to its infamous poverty and at times for its untapped rich natural resources. In 2009, the Kalahandi Lok Sabha seat was won by the Congress candidate and former Union minister Bhakta Charan Das who secured …

Over 100 ex-militants join BJP in Assam
1 year, 8 months ago

Over 100 ex-militants join BJP in Assam

India TV News  

Assam: Over 100 ex-cadres of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam. These former militants joined the saffron party in Assam's Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday. They are from different areas and held various top positions in the militant outfit," said BJP's Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council chief executive Tuliram Ronghang said. "The members …

Indigenous tag splits ‘Assamese Muslims’ wide open
2 years, 5 months ago

Indigenous tag splits ‘Assamese Muslims’ wide open

The Hindu  

On July 6, the BJP-led government in Assam approved the identification of five Muslim sub-groups as ‘Khilonjia Musalman’ or indigenous Assamese Muslims to set them apart from Bengali-speaking or Bengal-origin Muslims usually referred to as Miyas. “The suggestion to identify a section of Muslims in Assam by their religion instead of their ethnicity is faulty and divisive since our history …

1 Lakh National Flags, Tribal Cultural Event for PM Modi’s Visit to Assam’s Karbi Anglong Tomorrow
2 years, 7 months ago

1 Lakh National Flags, Tribal Cultural Event for PM Modi’s Visit to Assam’s Karbi Anglong Tomorrow

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to reach Karbi Anglong – a tribal district of Assam — on April 28, and is expected to lay the foundation stone of colleges and other projects in the education sector. More than one lakh men and women of Karbi Anglong are all set to welcome the most popular Prime Minister of the world …

Why Karbi Anglong Accord is Important for India’s Long Border with Resurgent China
3 years, 3 months ago

Why Karbi Anglong Accord is Important for India’s Long Border with Resurgent China

News 18  

The Northeast region is strategically important to India due to its geographical location, which connects the entire region to rest of the country by just a 23 km-wide Siliguri Corridor. Looking at the past, in the period immediately after India’s Independence, most insurgent groups demanded secession from India to set up independent nations which later mellowed down to demanding separate …

Centre signs tripartite Karbi Anglong agreement, announces funds for development
3 years, 3 months ago

Centre signs tripartite Karbi Anglong agreement, announces funds for development

Hindustan Times  

The Centre signed the tripartite Karbi Anglong agreement on Saturday promising to fulfil all the conditions for development of the Karbi people within the stipulated time. Union Home Minister Amit Shah greets members from different groups of Assam after signing the Karbi Anglong Peace agreement at the Home Ministry in New Delhi on Saturday. The agreement was signed in the …

Centre, Assam and six insurgent outfits sign ‘Karbi Peace Accord’ in Delhi
3 years, 3 months ago

Centre, Assam and six insurgent outfits sign ‘Karbi Peace Accord’ in Delhi

Op India  

The tripartite Karbi Peace accord was signed today at the national capital in the presence of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sharma, former CM Sarbananda Sonowal and representatives of the Karbi outfits. The agreement was signed by the central government, the Assam government, and six insurgent groups active within the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council region. …

Opinion | Why BJP-led Mitrajot may become Assam's first non-Congress govt to win consecutive terms
3 years, 7 months ago

Opinion | Why BJP-led Mitrajot may become Assam's first non-Congress govt to win consecutive terms

India Today  

As the country battles a second wave of coronavirus, four Indian states and one Union Territory await new governments in less than three days, with counting of votes polled in the five assembly elections is scheduled for May 2. On the other side, the Congress-led Mahajot forms one flank of the Opposition that consists of the Muslim-backed All India United …

Anand K. Sahay | The idea behind capturing power in any kind of way: fair or foul
3 years, 8 months ago

Anand K. Sahay | The idea behind capturing power in any kind of way: fair or foul

Deccan Chronicle  

The BJP may or may not win the Assembly elections in Assam. The last indubitably means going out of the way to disadvantage and “other” those who are not the majority, leading to the making of such patently unjust policies -- which defy the idea of equality before the law -- the new normal in a sharp deviation from the …

PM Modi urges militants to join mainstream in Assam
3 years, 8 months ago

PM Modi urges militants to join mainstream in Assam

Deccan Chronicle  

Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to militants who are still on the path of violence to lay down their arms and join the mainstream in order to build a peaceful and ‘Aatmanirbhar’ Assam. Addressing his last public rally before the third and final phase of polling in Assam at Tamulpur, Modi said, “I assure our mothers and …

Assam polls: At Baksa rally, PM Modi urges militants to join mainstream
3 years, 8 months ago

Assam polls: At Baksa rally, PM Modi urges militants to join mainstream

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday made a fervent appeal to militants in Assam who have not surrendered yet to return to the mainstream as they are needed to create an 'Atmanirbhar Assam'. Addressing an election rally in Baksa district, the prime minister said people of the state have rejected violence for development, peace, unity and stability. "It's unfortunate that …

'Kaan khol kar sunlo Ajmal...': Won't allow Assam to become infiltrators hub again, says Amit Shah
3 years, 8 months ago

'Kaan khol kar sunlo Ajmal...': Won't allow Assam to become infiltrators hub again, says Amit Shah

India TV News  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused Congress and AIUDF of hankering for power in Assam to open the borders for infiltrators and said emphatically that BJP will not allow the state to become a hub for illegal immigrants again after freeing the land encroached by them during last five years. Taking a swipe at All India United Democratic …

Can BJP survive the demographic disadvantage in Assam?
3 years, 8 months ago

Can BJP survive the demographic disadvantage in Assam?

India Today  

On March 27, 47 constituencies in Upper Assam, the northern bank of Brahmaputra and middle of Assam went to polls in the first phase of the assembly election. With the Congress-led alliance of eight parties having a demographic advantage in the 79 seats going to polls in the second and third phases, a superlative performance by this grand alliance can, …

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Will bring law against ‘love jihad’, ‘land jihad’: Amit Shah
3 years, 8 months ago

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Will bring law against ‘love jihad’, ‘land jihad’: Amit Shah

The Hindu  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the BJP would bring in laws against ‘love jihad’ and ‘land jihad’. Addressing party rallies at Kamalpur and Jagiroad, Mr. Shah said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and All India United Democratic Front president Badruddin Ajmal were synonymous with ‘tourism’ and ‘infiltration’ respectively. We say Srimanta Sankaradeva, Madhabdeva and Lachit Borphukan are Assam’s …

Assam Assembly Election 2021: Strong regionalism, and not polls, is key to survival of Assamese sub-nationalism
3 years, 8 months ago

Assam Assembly Election 2021: Strong regionalism, and not polls, is key to survival of Assamese sub-nationalism

Firstpost  

In the emotion of Assamese sub-nationalism thrives regionalism for Assam, and it is for the community — and neither AJP nor Raijor Dal or anyone else — to decide what future course it seeks for itself Editor’s note: Regionalism or more effectively Assamese sub-nationalism has always been part and parcel of politics in Assam whether this idea is in vogue …

‘Stress on Hindu identity’: BJP hate campaign in poll-bound Assam
3 years, 8 months ago

‘Stress on Hindu identity’: BJP hate campaign in poll-bound Assam

Al Jazeera  

In ethnically-diverse northeast Indian state, issues of migration and citizenship replaced by right-wing party’s attack on Muslims. In response, Bhupesh Baghel, chief minister of Chhattisgarh state and Congress observer for Assam polls, said the BJP’s “hate will not survive and those spreading hate will be defeated”. In the BJP’s campaign speeches and media statements, there are frequent references to “lungi” …

Frontier politics: The Hindu Editorial on identity issues taking centrestage in Assam Assembly Elections 2021
3 years, 9 months ago

Frontier politics: The Hindu Editorial on identity issues taking centrestage in Assam Assembly Elections 2021

The Hindu  

The BJP’s rise to power in Assam in 2016 was remarkable, and the party has set an even higher goal this time, to win 100 of the 126 Assembly seats along with its allies, the Asom Gana Parishad, United People’s Party Liberal and the Rabha Joutha Mancha. An alliance of regional parties, the Assam Jatiya Parishad and Akhil Gogoi’s Raijor …

No Alliance, New Party Stands as Hindrance to BJP in Assam Assembly Polls 2021, Says BJP
4 years, 2 months ago

No Alliance, New Party Stands as Hindrance to BJP in Assam Assembly Polls 2021, Says BJP

News 18  

Leaders of the ruling BJP in Assam Friday asserted that no alliance or new party stands as a hindrance for the saffron party’s return to power in the state for the second time in the assembly polls due in early 2021. State BJP president Ranjit Kumar Dass and senior party leader and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also attacked the …

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