Assam | The drama of deportation

As Assam gears up for meeting election early subsequent yr, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has already set a combative tone for the marketing campaign. In latest months, his Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) authorities has launched an aggressive, and legally contentious, drive to determine and deport “unlawful Bangladeshis”. This transfer has concerned reviving decades-old legal guidelines, sidelining the Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC) and stirring a flamable mixture of safety, identification and faith within the state’s political discourse.