Guwahati, July 17 -- Assam CPI secretary Kanak Gogoi has asked the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government to immediately stop the "inhumane and barbaric" eviction drives being carried out in various places of the State, saying that if people are to be evicted, it should be done as per the Supreme Court guidelines and by making alternative arrangements for rehabilitation of the evictees.

Addressing a press conference at Nazira on Tuesday, Gogoi said that if the evicted people have been identified as Bangladeshis, they should be pushed back through a repatriation treaty with Bangladesh.

"What the Chief Minister is doing is self-contradictory because his government has given a one-time assistance of Rs 50,000 and one-and-a-half 'katha's of lan...