A Voice from the Tea Garden Villages of Assam.

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🛑 Why Are Adivasis Being Treated Unjustly Over Land That Was Never Tea Estate Land?

“You drink tea every day—but do you know the hands that made it still have no land,no recognition, no respect?”

🔵1. Land Lived on for Generations — Yet Called “Tea Garden Land” Today.

Adivasis have lived, farmed, and built homes on these lands for decades, even before tea companies came.These lands were never used for tea cultivation, nor developed by any company.

Still, they are today wrongly labeled as "tea estate land" just because they are near a tea garden.

❗ “How can land become tea land just because poor Adivasis live on it without papers?”

🏀2. No Land Records, No Patta — The Perfect Trap.

Many of these lands have no clear land records due to British-era land systems. Adivasi families don’t have land pattas, not because they encroached—but because they were never given their rights. Now the government labels them as "illegal encroachers" even though they’ve lived there for generations.

❗ “If your family lives on land for 100 years, works on it, worships on it—but has no paper—should you lose everything?”

🟡 3. Tea Companies & Government Are Working Together.

Some tea companies no longer use this land, yet still claim it without proof. Government officials accept company claims blindly, without checking real usage or history.

Why? Because of deep ties between tea business and politics.

❗ “Land is being stolen—not with guns, but with signatures, seals, and silence.”

🟢 4. False “Development” Is Just Another Way to Displace.

BJP and government speak of “development,” but Adivasi people are being evicted, displaced, and erased.No homes, no land rights, no ST status—yet the government builds roads and industries on land taken from Adivasis.

This isn’t development. It’s displacement in disguise.

❗ “True development begins with justice, not bulldozers.”

🔵 5. Adivasis Built Assam — Why Are They Still Treated as Outsiders?

It was Adivasis who cleared forests, worked the tea gardens, and helped grow Assam’s economy.

Yet they are treated as landless labourers, not as rightful sons and daughters of the soil.

They are used during elections, then forgotten till the next vote.

❗ “You drink tea every day—but do you know the hands that made it still have no land to call their own?”

⚫ 6. The Final Call: We Are Not Begging. We Are Demanding Justice.

We are not asking for what is not ours. We are demanding: 

-Land pattas for the land we’ve lived on

- stop to illegal evictions

- proper land survey.

- Recognition as rightful citizens of Assam.

🗣️ Let This Be Heard Across Assam:

 “We may be without papers, but not without history. We may be without land titles, but not without land.”