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GUWAHATI
The Assam Christian Forum (ACF) connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) thanked Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the police, and the Nalbari territory authorities for arresting 4 radical progressive successful Christmas Eve vandalism, but resented the Bharatiya Janata Party’s bid to warrant the “unconscionable act”.
On Wednesday (December 24, 2025), members affiliated with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal allegedly disrupted Christmas Eve celebrations and vandalised decorations astatine St. Mary’s English School successful Nalbari, astir 65 km northwest of Guwahati.
The ACF said the incidental had sown fearfulness and insecurity among number communities successful the State. “The Christian assemblage crossed Assam welcomes this decisive measurement toward upholding the regularisation of instrumentality and protecting the cardinal close to spiritual expression, portion urging that the remaining culprits besides beryllium arrested astatine the earliest,” the forum’s spokesperson, Allen Brooks, said successful a connection connected Saturday.
However, the organisation expressed beardown objection to remarks made by Assam BJP president and Lok Sabha subordinate Dilip Saikia, who, it said, sought to warrant the vandalism by alleging “constant provocation” from the Christian assemblage and making unsubstantiated claims astir spiritual conversions.
“Such statements, implying that the desecration of ineffable preparations and spiritual artefacts was a effect to perceived grievances, not lone undermine the gravity of the transgression but besides hazard inflaming communal tensions astatine a clip erstwhile unity is paramount,” the connection said.
Referring to law guarantees, the ACF said Articles 25 and 26 guarantee state of religion to each citizens and rejected immoderate communicative that “portrays number communities arsenic provocateurs oregon justifies violence” successful the sanction of taste protection.“
Conversions, wherever they occur, are matters of idiosyncratic conscience and lawful choice, not instruments of societal discord. We impulse governmental leaders to refrain from rhetoric that deepens divisions and alternatively beforehand dialog and communal respect,” the connection added.
