India, Oct. 10 -- Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said that 'Miya-Muslims' will make up for 38% of the state's population by the time results of the next census are out and announced that the government would introduce two legislations to protect the state's indigenous population.

"The results of the next census for Assam will show that the population of Miya-Muslims in the state would be 38%. You can note this statement of mine," Sarma told reporters in Dibrugarh on the sidelines of a government function.

Miya is a pejorative term used primarily in Assam for Bengali-speaking Muslims with origins in Bangladesh, or erstwhile East Pakistan. Under the Citizenship Act, people who entered the state from Bangladesh after Ma...