Women Stage Semi-Nude Protest Against Eviction Drive In Guwahati

As the 2 stripped all the way down to their undergarments, policewomen rushed to cover them and had been taken faraway from the web page, along side several other protestors.

Guwahati: Women staged a semi-nude protest in Assam's biggest metropolis Guwahati towards an eviction power in Silsako Beel (lake) region on Friday, as excavators ravaged to the ground several houses to clear alleged encroached land of the wetland.

As police and civil administration reached the location to carry out the eviction, neighborhood people came out in protest.

Initially raising slogans in opposition to the authorities and seeking to save you the police personnel from getting into the place, two ladies protestors disrobed themselves.

As the two stripped all the way down to their undergarments, policewomen rushed to cowl them and were taken away from the web site, in conjunction with numerous other protestors.

The eviction drive was accomplished with several excavators pressed into motion to demolish the homes inside the vicinity.

A couple whose residence become demolished claimed that they had bought the land for ₹ 4 lakh in 2007 from a local 'committee', which had confident them that no eviction might show up inside the area.

"The authorities has thrown us out to be able to sell this land to the wealthy for crores of rupees. Where will we cross now? Our lives are over," they stated.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that the workout changed into performed after due session with the residents and repayment could be paid to those eligible for it.

"There changed into a discussion with the general public for the closing 3 days and the eviction was done after achieving an information. The district commissioner had knowledgeable the people approximately the compensation to be paid. We will build residences for the landless evicted people," Chief Minister Sarma said, speaking to journalists at the sidelines of a programme in Nagaon.

He maintained that those protesting are from a specific business enterprise, although he did not name any organization.

"They will protest against some thing we do. We will take strict motion against them," the leader minister introduced.

Criticising the authorities over the eviction force, competition birthday celebration Assam Jatiya Parishad chief Lurinjyoti Gogoi alleged that women are now not safe under BJP rule.

"We are greatly surprised and distressed at such a protest. For the first time, ladies had to strip and protest in our state," he said.

President of the children wing of kingdom Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Rudrangkur Hazarika, maintained that the girls had to take this type of step to sign up their protest as the government has grew to become a deaf ear to their problems.

"The authorities has not been able to clear up any hassle of the human beings. The ladies had been left without a choice to get the government's interest," he said.

Condemning the incident, Assam Trinamool Congress spokesperson Dilip Sarma stated, "The BJP had pointed out shielding the land of the indigenous humans. And now, Assamese ladies are being compelled to disrobe and protest against the government." An eviction force in Silkalo lake become carried out earlier this year additionally, with the authorities initiating the technique you bought back land inside the wetland location that turned into allotted to numerous government and personal our bodies many a long time in the past.

Initially, the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) had planned to goal handiest around 450 buildings inside a hundred metres on both facets of the lake, which became around 400 bighas (over 132 acres), however the authorities later multiplied the workout to make the whole water frame encroachment unfastened.

The government in 2008 had declared Silsako Beel, surrounded through Chachal, Hengerabari, Pathar Quarry and Satgaon regions, a blanketed water body in Guwahati through an act and prohibited any production or agreement in round 1,800 bighas (over 595 acres) of lake vicinity.

A GMDA legitimate had said that less than 300 bighas of the lake remained free from encroachment and the waterbody was decreased to a small pit, which is assumed to be a first-rate reason for water logging within the jap a part of the town.

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Most of the humans affected are from Assamese communities like Bodo, Mising, Karbi, Ahom and Bishnupriya Manipuri.