Guwahati: For BJP in power in Assam, protecting Vaishnavite Satras (Monastery) and Namghars (Halls Prayer) is the main agenda in 2021 assembly polls, where he enrolled a pounding victory.
Many areas inhabited by Vaishnav were chosen firmly supporting the Kunyit coalition in the election, which was the battle of “two civilizations” for BJP – to fight represented by Muslim migrants.
Eight months after the results of the poll, as the Government of Assam and Meghalaya completed the land-exchange agreement to resolve the border land dispute over decades, it was Satras Vaishnavite in the suburban villages under the constituency of Western Guwahati who opposed “Land Assam” where students They prevented the alleged Christian aggression of MeMhalaya firmly uphold Vashnavite culture which was reproduced by Satra and Namghar.
The dominant Rabha community has supported Vaishnavism around the Mataikhar Satra in West Guwahati, one of the two Satras along the border of Assam-Meghalaya, centuries when Christian missionaries active in the regions to win tribal communities here.
After upholding Ethos Vaishnivism in a challenging phase even after several Rabhas and a large number of garos on the border between countries supporting Christianity, Satra followers are not ready to submit one inch of Meghalaya.
“We are people from Assam.
Our culture, language, and education have become Assam.
We will not go to Meghalaya,” said Gajen Rabha, Satradhikar from Satra Mataikhar, one of the oldest satras on the border of Assam-Meghalaya, established around 500 last year.
Satra has around 2,500 followers, spread in many hamlets to Jimirigaon (5 km away), where MEGHALAYA claims are proven by several elementary schools built by the government and the construction of their roads.
However, a large number of Rabha families living in the plains and hills in the Virgin area are associated with Assam through relations of religions.
Satra Netuwajapa in the nearest Longsai area is another bone of dispute where local leaders from Meghalaya often emphasize their claims since building several elementary schools a few decades ago.
Netuwajapa Satra has around 1,200 other followers, who have provided many reasons for the Asom Satra Mahasabha (ASM), the Satras Peak organization, to oppose submitting areas inhabited by Followers Vaishnav in Meghalaya.
As many as 1.57 square kilometers in the Boklapara sector are debated and the Assam government, as part of a recent land exchange agreement between the two state governments, recommends making 0.56 square kilometers in this sector to Meghalaya.
Certain bags recommended to be handed over to Meghalaya are not yet known by the locals, but tensions are being brewed in areas where most Rabhas Hindu faith is afraid that they will lose their Assam’s identity, which is no less important than they are religious identity.
“Our government should not promote Christianity by recognizing Meghalaya authorities in the ‘Assam Land’ that has been protected by Vaishnav students in the border area.
Rabha is a community where formulas to enter Christianity have not worked like some other communities on this border,” said Kusum Kumar Mahanta, ASM Secretary General.
He added that many Hajong and Konch families on the border between countries, who were also Vaishnav followers, were not ready to be separated from Assam.
“About 20 namghar on the border faced the threat of a swap agreement.
We have warned the Government of Assam after seeing Meghalaya leaders leading in building churches, Darbar Ghars and schools on the side of Assam,” Alleged Mahanta.Hem Kachari (47), a resident of Batabari -BaklaPara in the Boklapara sector has no satra relations but both cares about the government’s move, which can achieve the immediate implementation phase, if the Union Government receives a report on land agreements resolved by two state governments.
“We are Adat Assam and speak Assam, even though the border is unclear.
Who wants to change the state of domicile where our brothers and sisters live?” Kachari asked.
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