Guwahati: In the next census, Miya-Muslims will be the biggest community in Assam. Alarming the indigenous people Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said,” Mark my words, by the next census Miya-Muslims will be 38 per cent of the total population of the state. Anyone can do the projection from the previous census data and their population growth rate.” He further said this is a hard reality of Assam. so it is our goal to safeguard our people from the aggression of Miya-Muslims. In the last five years the BJP led state government has worked on it. In the coming assembly session the government will table two very important bills on it. “ I don’t want to say much on the upcoming bills, but it will be very important for the safeguard of the indigenous people of Assam,” the CM said.
“If we would have worked on it in the last 30 years as we did in the last 5 years, we wouldn’t have faced this crisis. But the battle has started in the last five years, and we need to take it to the desired result”, CM Sarma added. He also said that because of the initiatives of the BJP government the situation is much better now but the fight will continue in the coming 10 years.
“We need to keep the Miya-Muslims under pressure as we are keeping them now. The situation will be under control at one point if we can put them under pressure, otherwise it will be beyond our control”, CM Sarma opined. He further informed that the state government has been carrying out many efforts simultaneously to safeguard the “Jati, Mati, Bheti” ( Community, Land and Identity) of the locals. The eviction drives are one of them. The state government has freshly served notice to illegal Miya settlers in government and forest land in Goalpara and Behali. Education drives will be carried out in both the places soon.
It should be mentioned that the Muslim population in Assam as per the 2011 census is 34.22 percent or around 1crore 6 lakhs. In every census the Muslim population is increasing over 4 percent which means in the coming census the Muslim population in Assam will be over 38 percent. In 1971 the Muslim population of the state was 24.56 percent which grew to 28.48 percent in 1991.
Similarly, the population increased to 30.92 in 2001 and 34.22 in 2011 which clearly indicates that in the coming census it will be over 38 per cent of the total population of the state or over 1.40 crore. Interestingly the Hindu population of the state has been decreasing alarmingly for the last several decades. In 1971 the Hindu population was 72.51 percent which fell to 67.13 percent in 1991. In 2001 it further shrank to 64.89 per cent and in 2011 Hindu population decreased to 61.46 percent. Continuing the trend the Hindu population is expected to decrease to below 60 percent in the coming census.
