
The Assam government on Tuesday sealed a "Miya museum" set up privately by an organization of Bangladeshi immigrants to display farm tools and other items that it said were exclusive to the community, after CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said the exhibited articles belonged traditionally to natives of the state.
Miya is a pejorative term for Bengali-speaking Muslims of East Pakistan/Bangladesh origin settled in Assam, which had seen an anti-foreigner movement in the 1980s. Illegal immigration is still a sore point.
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