After Kanchanpur, resentment began to brew among the local residents of Heeracherra ADC village under Gournagar rural development block of Kailashahar centering a decision of giving settlement to Bru refugees in the area.
In an attempt to press for their demands, the locals gathered in front of the ADC Bhavan and protested the move.
Sources said, only recently the locals became aware of the development and reacted sharply. The locals feared that if the Bru refugees were settled there, they would be soon outnumbered by them and the local families which were till date bereft of their own land and basic amenities would be driven out of their area where they had been staying since the last 150 years.
The locals collectively claimed, they would fight until last to prevent this settlement process. Although Heeracherra was the oldest tea garden of the state, the locals of these areas were left in a helpless condition. Since long the tea estate had no owner. Some of the workers were running tea businesses forming a committee but that too on a miniscule scale.
On the other hand, lion’s share of the population sourcing their livelihoods through odd jobs such as rearing of cattle, firewood collection and agriculture in abandoned government lands. They argued, for more than hundred years this region is mixedly populated with people from different religions, indigenous people and Bengali community people. But, the government had not planned any settlement project for them. In this situation, if the Bru refugees get settlement there, the local people might not have any opportunity left to get settlement there. Cutting across the religious lines, people of the region supported the protest and they would soon meet in a deputation to the Unakoti district magistrate.
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