Farmers in Assam’s Doyang Rise in Defiance to Protect Ancestral Lands Amid Border Tensions with Nagaland
In a powerful grassroots uprising, hundreds of farmers and villagers from Doyang in Assam’s Golaghat district staged a mass protest today, demanding protection of their ancestral agricultural lands in the Merapani Seed Farm area from what they allege is ongoing “encroachment” by neighboring Nagaland. With slogans, placards, and unyielding determination, the protestors defied legal notices,…
