GUWAHATI Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Hindus would become a minority in the State within 10 years due to a demographic change over six decades.

The attributed this shift to “illegal migration” of people from present-day Bangladesh.

“Compared to 1951, the demography of Assam has reached such a stage that the Assamese and the Hindus will become a minority in 10 years. We have to revive a community facing extinction,” he told journalists on Monday (July 21, 2025).

The Chief Minister said attempts were made to frustrate and stop the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government from taking decisive steps during the last four years. “We have reclaimed 1.29 lakh bighas of land from encroachers and this effort will continue,” he said.

He stated the reclaimed land at Orang National Park has become a habitat for the one-horned rhinos and tigers.

“A solar project has come up at Borsola (Sonitpur district). Elephants have returned to Lumding (Reserve Forest in Hojai district). The reclaimed land at Burapahar (part of Kaziranga Tiger Reserve) now provides a safe haven for tigers and rhinos. Paikan (Reserve Forest in Goalpara district), once filled with teak trees, will be green again,” Mr Sarma said.

The State government is preparing to carry out an eviction drive at Uriamghat in eastern Assam’s Golaghat district bordering Nagaland.

A few days ago, the Chief Minister said it has taken “merely 60 years” for Hindus in Assam to near the minority status.

“We have lost our culture, our land, our temples. We are desperate for survival, not for revenge, because the law gives us no remedy. We may be fighting a losing battle, but we will go down fighting—with dignity, within the law, and for the soul of our Assam,” he said.