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GUWAHATI
A time aft taking oath arsenic Assam’s Chief Minister for the 2nd consecutive term, Himanta Biswa Sarma said that his State feels safer with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful powerfulness successful the adjoining West Bengal.
He told journalists connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) that the governmental alignment betwixt the 2 neighbouring States would spell a agelong mode successful improving coordination to look shared challenges, specifically that of “illegal immigration” from Bangladesh.
Together, Assam and West Bengal stock a 2,479.7 km borderline with Bangladesh retired of a full magnitude of 4,096.7 km.
“The 2 States person historically faced respective communal issues, peculiarly successful law-and-order and inter-State coordination. Now that we person the aforesaid authorities successful West Bengal, Assam is feeling overmuch safer due to the fact that of the communal issues we face,” Mr Sarma said, indicating the challenges faced from crossed the India-Bangladesh border.
“There were instances wherever criminals could transverse implicit to West Bengal successful the past, and practice was not ever easy. The caller governmental script volition alteration some State governments to enactment much intimately successful areas of governance, security, and development,” helium said.
Referring to the information of West Bengal’s enactment successful his swearing-in ceremonial connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026), Mr Sarma said it reflected the opening of a stronger determination cooperation. “The beingness of the West Bengal Chief Minister astatine the oath-taking ceremony, and the warmth shown by the radical of his State, task a agleam aboriginal for the northeast,” helium added.
Firm connected UCC
The Chief Minister asserted his government’s committedness to implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a cardinal committedness successful the BJP’s predetermination manifesto.
“Along with the UCC, we volition effort 100% to instrumentality each connection we mentioned successful our predetermination manifesto,” helium said.
The UCC is 1 of the BJP’s large ideological commitments nationally. It envisages a communal acceptable of civilian laws governing matters specified arsenic marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption for citizens adhering to each religions.
During Mr Sarma’s archetypal word astatine the helm, the State authorities launched a thrust against kid matrimony and polygamy, and repealed the Assam Muslim Marriage and Divorce Registration Act of 1935.
