The ‘Miya museum’, which was set up in a house constructed under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) assets, on Tuesday has been sealed by Assam’s Goalpara district administration for allegedly violating land and property laws, as reported by news agency PTI. The leader of the Mia Assam Miya Parishad, Mohor Ali set up a museum on the premises of the house provided to him under the Prime Minister's Awas Yojana.
A group of government officials sealed the museum at Dapkabhita under Lakhipur police headquarters and put up a notification that this action has been taken on the orders of the deputy commissioner.
Meanwhile, BJP leaders are questioning the funding of the center along with the request to shut down the museum permanently. The opening of the museum in a house designated under the Head of the state's Awas Yojana prompted a contention with senior BJP pioneers requesting its quick conclusion.
BJP Minority Morcha part Abdur Rahim Gibran had documented an objection against the setting up of the gallery in the house. A few horticultural executes and fishing equipment, hand towels, and checked 'lungis' (sarongs worn by men) are present there. Ali guarantees that these are the identity of the 'Miya' people group.
In Assam, the word 'Miya' alludes to Bengali-talking transients whose origin can be traced to Bangladesh.
Ali alongside his two minor children sat on a dharna outside the house requesting the quick return of the exhibition hall." We are displaying objects with which the community identifies itself so that people from other communities can realize that the Miyas are not any different from them", Ali said. The police later arrested him.
Before the day, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that such exercises by certain individuals from the Miya people group represented a danger to the "Assamese character"."How could they (the Miya people group) guarantee that the furrow is their character? It has been involved by all ranchers in the state for a long time. It is just the lungi that they can guarantee as their own," Sarma said on the sidelines of a program.
The individuals who have set up the exhibition hall should pay all due respects to a specialist advisory group on what premise the cases were made, he added.
The setting up of a Miya Exhibition hall was first proposed by previous Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed in 2020. He had kept in touch with the overseer of historical centers asking for its foundation at the Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra to grandstand the culture and heritage of Bengali-speaking Muslims living in the riverine areas of the state.
Sarma had dismissed Ahmed's proposal.