Guwahati, Sep 25 (TIWN) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma suspects the role of a third party in Thursdays violence in which two persons were killed and 20 others were injured after a mob clashed with the police during an eviction drive in Darrang district of the state.

The eviction drive was launched by the police and the district administration to vacate 4,500 bighas (602.40 hectares) of government land illegally encroached by several hundreds of families of Bengali-speaking Muslims. 

The Chief Minister said that the drive went on smoothly till Wednesday, and only 60 families had to be evicted on Thursday. But around 10,000 people with lathis etc. gathered at Sipajhar to put up a massive resistance, he said.

"Where did they come from? Who brought them," Sarma asked while addressing an official function and said that to reveal the truth, the government has ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident to be conducted by a retired Gauhati High Court judge.

Sarma said that Thursday's violence was perpetrated, even as he promised to the All Assam Minority Students' Union (AAMSU) that all the landless households would be provided with six bighas of land.