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GUWAHATI
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025), said New Delhi would not stay soundless for agelong if leaders successful Bangladesh proceed to endanger to chopped disconnected the northeastern portion from India’s mainland.
He said repeated calls to instrumentality implicit the northeast aft severing the portion from India reflected a “bad mindset” successful Bangladesh.
“There person been statements from Bangladesh for a year, calling for a merger of the northeast with that country. It is incorrect for Bangladesh to adjacent ideate this,” the Chief Minister told journalists.
Pointing retired that India is simply a ample country, a atomic nation, and the world’s 4th largest economy, helium said the radical of Bangladesh person a atrocious mindset. “We should not assistance the state and fto them cognize that we volition not stay soundless if specified behaviour is directed astatine India,” helium said.
The Chief Minister’s absorption came a time aft Hasnat Abdullah, a person of Bangladesh’s recently formed National Citizen Party, said India’s northeastern region, comprising 8 States, should beryllium isolated.
“I privation to archer Bharat that if you support sheltering those who bash not judge successful the sovereignty of our state and quality rights, we volition structure the separatists of India and chopped the northeast off,” helium warned.
He accused India of backing and arming the patrons of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to emergence against the existent Bangladesh regime.
Mr. Abdullah is not the archetypal to contented specified a threat. Earlier this year, the Chief Adviser of the country’s interim government, Mohammed Yunus, said, “The 7 States of India successful its eastbound portion are a land-locked region. They person nary mode to scope retired to the ocean. We are the lone guardians of the ocean.”
Later, the menace from Bangladeshi leaders shifted to the “chicken’s neck”, a 22-35 km wide spot successful West Bengal’s Siliguri connecting the northeast with the remainder of India.
The Assam Chief Minister said Bangladesh should absorption connected its 2 “vulnerable” chicken’s necks earlier threatening India. The archetypal of these runs 80 km done Bangladesh from Dakhin Dinajpur successful West Bengal to South West Garo Hills successful Meghalaya, and the 2nd is the 28 km Chittagong Corridor from South Tripura till the Bay of Bengal.
