The ‘Mia Museum’, set up in a house allotted under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in Assam’s Goalpara district, was sealed just two days after its opening.
It was inaugurated on Sunday and notified to close on Tuesday.
According to sources, the museum was set up in a PMAY house and closed after protests by BJP leaders over inauthentic display of objects belonging to the ‘Miya’ community.
The proposal to set up a Mia Museum was first proposed by former Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed in 2020. He requested the director of the museum to establish it at Shrimant Shankardeva Kalakshetra to showcase the culture and heritage of Bengali speaking Muslims living in Riverine areas of the state. But it was rejected.
CM Sharma said, “How can they (Mia community) claim that the plow is their identity? It has been used by all the farmers of the state for ages. Only the Lungis can claim them as their own.”
He also mentioned that such activities are a threat to the Assamese community.