Assam people must decide between vote bank politics and development: Himanta

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma connected Monday (January 26, 2026) said that the clip has travel for radical to deliberation and marque a prime whether they privation 'vote slope politics' oregon instrumentality guardant the improvement travel launched by his authorities during the past 5 years.

The State volition spell to the polls successful the adjacent fewer months, and radical indispensable determine whether they privation to ''surrender to Bangladeshi Muslims'' oregon beryllium portion of advancement and development, the Chief Minister said successful his code astatine the Republic Day relation here.

He said that earlier, Republic and Independence Days successful the State were marked by unit and insurgency, but present ''we are among the fastest increasing States successful the country''.

''We person decided not to surrender to the Bangladeshi Muslims who person encroached upon immense areas of onshore and threatened our identity, civilization and traditions. We person started the process of reclaiming our onshore by evicting the encroachers,'' helium said.

Mr. Sarma said that his authorities was committed to support people's 'maati' (land), 'bheti' (foundation), 'sanskriti' (culture) and 'parichay' (identity) to support and unafraid the rights of the aboriginal generation.

He urged radical to stay '' atal (firm), abichal (unwavering) and 'agragami' (forward moving) successful their quest to guarantee that their individuality is not threatened and the improvement travel started by this authorities leads to the constitution of Assam arsenic the starring State of the country''.