Thousands evicted in Assam are now clamouring to get their names into voter list | India News
With the claims and objections process of the Special Revision of electoral rolls in Assam currently underway, people whose homes had been demolished in the state’s mass eviction exercises are now lining up for hearings. In the last five years, large-scale eviction drives have taken place on forest land, sattra land, and other government land, affecting over 50,000 families — mostly Bengali-origin Muslims. With these families forced to make alternate living arrangements due to the demolition of the homes where they were registered as voters, several of them have received notices from their Electoral Registration Officers, summoning them for hearings due to their “shifting” address. For instance, people who had been evicted in Hojai district during an eviction drive in the Lutumari Reserve Forest in November 2025 received notices on January 7 to report to the Hojai District Commissioner’s Office on January 12 for a hearing on an “objection to the inclusion” of their names in the electoral roll at that address. “You are directed to be present at the hearing with such evidence as …
