Guwahati:
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has mentioned that he woul not let Bengali-speaking Muslims take over the state, underscoring that he’s “not within the competitors for minority votes”. Alleging that it was a communal assertion, the Congress walked out of the state meeting, the place Mr Sarma was talking.
Talking at Assam’s Legislative meeting on the Opposition’s adjournment movement on a number of key points — together with rape of minors and the targetting of Bengali Muslims in higher Assam’s Sivasagar district — Mr Sarma mentioned, “I’ll take sides. What are you able to do? Won’t let Miya Muslims take over Assam”.
“Allow them to (the Opposition) compete for minority votes. I’m not within the competitors,” the Chief Minister added.
The time period ‘Miya’ refers to Muslims of Bengali origin, who are sometimes accused of being unlawful immigrants from Bangladesh.
Mr Sarma mentioned Opposition leaders Rafikul Sahab and Debabrata Saikia have made an essential assertion. The 2 leaders had underscored that folks will transfer from Decrease Assam to higher Assam.
Questioning why that will occur, Mr Sarma mentioned, “You Miya Muslims will take your complete decrease Assam? We won’t allow you to all to take the decrease Assam, no by no means,” he added.
Mr Sarma’s remarks come two days after Opposition MLA Akhil Gogoi claimed that the BJP is making an attempt to recreate the 2002 Gujarat episodes in Assam. His feedback adopted studies that some organisations have allegedly been threatening Muslims from Higher Assam, demanding that they depart the executive division.
The Opposition All-India United Democratic Entrance (AIUDF) has written to Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya, in search of motion in opposition to unknown organisations and fundamentalist teams issuing threats to the Muslim group in Higher Assam.
Speaking to reporters later, Opposition chief Debabrata Saikia mentioned, “There are such a lot of situations of failure of legislation and order — rape, dacoity, homicide and many others. We now have given statistics about it. There have been greater than 20 circumstances of homicide and arson in simply seven days in June,” he mentioned.
Because the BJP rule began, there have been not less than six circumstances of rape per day — which is greater than the final 15 years Congress rule in Assam, he added.
“The Chief Minister is making an attempt to say {that a} specific group was concerned. There was assault on Indian residents belonging to the minority group,” Mr Saikia mentioned. “However statistics do not say such factor. So we have now requested for a dialogue relating to the matter. However the Chief Minister is saying very communal factor. We now have protested and stroll out from the meeting,” Mr Saikia mentioned.
