In Goalpara, where eviction drives have washed thousands of Muslim families off the land and onto temporary camps and sandbars, the ruling BJP’s ‘illegal migrant’ narrative clashes with the reality of people who possess Aadhaar cards, voter IDs and decades‑old documents—yet are held to be outsiders, even as they line up to vote in a state that has turned their displacement into a central plank of its electoral campaign.