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GUWAHATI
The warfare of words betwixt the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress successful Assam has reached the tribunal and constabulary presumption up of the elections to the 126-member Assembly, apt by April.
On Tuesday (February 10, 2026), Chief Minister Himanta Biswa filed a ₹500 crore defamation suit against 3 Congress leaders, including Jorhat MP Gaurav Gogoi. Around the aforesaid clip that helium announced this connected societal media platforms, 2 Congress MLAs — Sibamoni Bora and Diganta Barman — lodged a police ailment against him implicit a arguable AI-generated video.
“Today, I person filed a defamation lawsuit seeking ₹500 crore successful damages against Congress leaders Jitendra Singh, Bhupesh Baghel, and Gaurav Gogoi for making false, malicious, and defamatory allegations against maine done a property conference,” Mr. Sarma posted connected X.
He did not explicate the allegations, but said connected the micro-blogging tract connected February 4 that helium would initiate civilian and transgression defamation proceedings against the trio, arsenic good arsenic Debabrata Saikia, the Congress Legislature Party leader.
In their ailment astatine Guwahati’s Dispur constabulary station, the 2 Congress MLAs cited the now-deleted video depicting the Chief Minister symbolically firing astatine Muslims astatine “point blank range”. The Assam portion of the BJP had posted the “highly provocative content” connected X connected February 7.
The ailment stated that the overlaid substance successful the video included phrases specified arsenic “foreigner-free Assam”, “No mercy”, “Why did you not spell to Pakistan?”, and “There is nary forgiveness to Bangladeshis”. These, the MLAs said, implied the Bengal-origin Muslims of Assam, “often derogatorily labelled arsenic Miyas oregon Bangladeshis”.
“The aforesaid contented targeting a peculiar assemblage is highly provocative and communal, which volition decidedly pb societal disharmony amongst the people. Therefore, you are requested to registry a lawsuit nether due sections of penal instrumentality and instrumentality indispensable enactment successful this respect (sic),” the ailment read.
