Chariman National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Nand Kumar Sai said in a statement that Bangladeshi Muslims are taking benefit of simplicity of tribal. They are marrying the tribal girls and acquiring their land.
He further said during his six-day visit to Bastar several issues cropped up and one of the key one was this. Not only they are cutting down the forest and making the girls fight local bodies’ election like panch, sarpanch, janpad members etc., then carrying out their influence in larger area. Similar, incidents are being reported in bordering areas of Surguja also. Sai is on a two-day visit to Ambikapur.
Interacting with media person, tribal leaders alleged that Naxal and police atrocities have led to migration of tribal from state to bordering states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. He said there are several incidents were innocent tribals are killed, they are dressed in Naxal outfit and marked as Naxals. The tribal leader added that police should be given special training to protect rights of downtrodden.
Former Sarguja MP on different stand of Congress leader Arvind Netam and Dr Prem Sai Singh, state education minister on CAA issue, said tribal have now political affiliation based on it they are taking their stand. In CAA no document is being sought from local residents, rumours are being spread about it. There is large patch of area where still no survey has been done by the government.
