State indigenous Muslims 'SAGMDJP' reiterate demand for survey

GUWAHATI: The Sadou Asom Goria-Moria-Deshi Jatiya Parishad (SAGMDJP) District Committee held a protest at Chahcal on Wednesday. Through the district administration, the Muslim body submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister demanding the government to conduct a survey to identify the indigenous Muslims.

It argued that the indigenous Muslims are being harassed as people cannot differentiate them from the Bangladeshi Muslims.

"95 per cent people of the SAGMDJP are converted Muslims who belonged to other indigenous communities in the past," the body said.

It also stressed that Assam floods should be declared as a 'national problem' and the Centre should allot a special economic package for the issue.

Further, it demanded the establishment of a development for the Goria-Moria-Deshi communities in the BTAD (Bodoland Territorial Area Districts).

The SAGMDJP also argued that there should not be a cut-off year to identify indigenous Muslims. By checking the ethnic history of the people, the definition of indigenous people should be made, it added.

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