Tension has been brewing in Assam's Sivasagar district over the issue of Bangladeshi nationals. The locals here have expressed the feeling that their traditional identity is in trouble due to the increase in the influx of outsiders. Some local organizations have announced that Bangladeshis in the district should leave within a week. Following the incident, tension prevailed in the area and police and district administration officials rushed to the spot.
Monday's On August 26, the police took out a flag march from the main town of Sivasagar district. The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Sivasagar also issued notices to 27 leaders of local organizations under Section 126 of the Indian Penal Code. He said the notice was issued as a preventive measure to prevent breach of peace.
The notice has been issued in the backdrop of the agitation going on in Sivasagar district for the last two weeks. The notice said that people should not disturb the peace by making provocative statements against one community and other minority communities, calling for the closure of shops and markets in Sivasagar district, and gathering crowds illegally by putting up speakers.
Tension prevails in Assam after rape incident
Tension has gripped several districts, including Sivasagar, after a 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in Assam's Nagaon district on August 22. Of the three accused, Tafazzul Islam was arrested the next day. However, he died in police custody.
After the August 22 incident, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the incident was an attack on the indigenous people of the area.
Protest against Marwari community
Earlier, in Sivasagar district, a clash broke out between locals and the Marwari community over the molestation of a 17-year-old girl on August 13. The Assam Nationalist Congress Party (ANC) had taken out a rally in protest against the incident as the accused belonged to the Marwari community. They also targeted shops of the Marwari community in the city. Against this backdrop, the Marwari community came together and apologized to the local people, and the dispute was resolved with the mediation of state minister Ranoj Pegu.