9,000 Bighas for Adani, Thousands Homeless
Mohammad shafi Slams Assam Govt

Mohammad Shafi, National Vice President of the Social Democratic Party of India, strongly condemns the Assam BJP government’s brazen decision to hand over vast stretches of land to the Adani Group at the cost of the lives, homes, and rights of ordinary citizens. This act exposes the true face of the regime—where corporate profiteering is prioritised above constitutional protections, indigenous rights, and the welfare of marginalized communities.

Since 2021, the Himanta Biswa Sarma government has unleashed unprecedented eviction drives, displacing over 50,000 families and reclaiming more than 1.19 lakh bighas of government land and 84,000 bighas of forest land. The overwhelming majority of those evicted are poor Bengali-origin Muslims, Adivasis, Karbis, Dimasas, Nagas and other marginalized groups. While these families are branded as “encroachers” and violently uprooted, the very same lands are shamelessly transferred to corporate giants like Adani, Reliance, and Patanjali.

The most glaring example is the allocation of nearly 9,000 bighas in Dima Hasao for an Adani cement factory, promoted as Asia’s largest. This violates the Sixth Schedule protections for tribal lands and risks the displacement of nearly 14,000 indigenous families. Even the Gauhati High Court expressed shock at the government’s reckless giveaway, questioning whether an entire district was being handed over to one corporate house. Similarly, in Dhubri, 3,500 bighas were cleared by evicting nearly 2,000 Muslim families for an Adani thermal plant project. These decisions are not development—they are daylight robbery of people’s land.

The SDPI reiterates that true development cannot be built on the corpses of displaced citizens. Evictions carried out without rehabilitation, without consent, and in defiance of laws like the Forest Rights Act and constitutional protections for Scheduled Tribes are not only inhuman but criminal. The government’s claim of protecting indigenous rights is a dangerous façade, when in reality it is facilitating corporate colonisation of Assam’s resources.

We warn that this nexus of the BJP government and Adani will only fuel greater unrest, polarization, and environmental destruction in Assam. The SDPI demands an immediate halt to all corporate land allocations, an independent investigation into illegal transfers, and a comprehensive rehabilitation plan for the evicted families.The land of Assam belongs to its people—not to Adani and not to those who trade the state’s future for political and financial gain.