Last year, he threw sufficient hints that a policy shift on inter-religious land transfer was in the offing. To justify the new regulation, the BJP government cited intelligence reports on attempts to forcefully transfer land from people belonging to one religious community to another. The ban on inter-faith land transfer, euphemistically described as “streamlining,” empowers the state government to scrutinize all applications which seek land transfer between buyers and sellers. Besides, Assam has had its share of tribal politics reflected in the long and violent agitation for Bodoland. The ruling BJP’s decisions related to land transfer exposes anxieties that are rooted in Assam’s history of identity politics.