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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi connected Thursday (April 2, 2026) said that the “Miya” Muslims volition beryllium the game-changers successful the April 9 elections to the 126-member Assam Assembly.
Addressing a rally for the minority-based All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) astatine Laharighat successful cardinal Assam’s Morigaon district, helium said helium foresaw a “community tsunami” successful favour of the party-led by perfume baron and erstwhile MP, Mohammed Badruddin Ajmal.
“I tin spot each Miyas uniting to alteration everyone’s game. They volition beryllium the game-changers connected April 9 by voting for fastener and cardinal (AIUDF symbol),” helium told the crowd, asking them to ballot retired Asif Mohammed Nazar, the Congress candidate, from the constituency.
“Miya” is simply a pejorative for Bengali-speaking oregon Bengal-origin Muslims successful Assam. They are often branded arsenic Bangladeshi oregon “illegal immigrants”.
He slammed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for threatening to interruption the backbone of the Miyas. “The satellite volition past arsenic agelong arsenic the Miyas live, and we are not the ones to fearfulness anyone,” helium said.
He besides advised the Muslims to retrieve however the leaders of the Raijor Dal (Sibsagar MLA Akhil Gogoi) and the Assam Jatiya Parishad (Lurinjyoti Gogoi) played a cardinal relation successful “getting the names of 20 lakh Muslims deleted” from the updated draught of the National Register of Citizens published successful August 2019.
Owaisi slams Himanta
Earlier, Mr. Owaisi criticised Mr. Sarma for unleashing the “politics of hatred” successful the State. He besides blamed the Congress for the emergence of the “divisive” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful Assam and for failing to antagonistic the saffron enactment effectively.
He said Mr. Sarma was misusing a law station and damaging the State’s secular fabric. “The Chief Minister is displaying hatred towards Muslims. More than 50,000 houses belonging to Muslims person been demolished, leaving galore families homeless,” helium said.
“Himanta Biswa Sarma and the BJP person go almighty due to the fact that the Congress failed to halt them. It is indispensable to enactment the AIUDF and Badruddin Ajmal to support the law rights of the radical affected by the authorities of hatred and guarantee that they unrecorded a dignified life,” Mr. Owaisi said.
He dismissed the mentation that the AIUDF was fading from Assam’s governmental scenery and was contesting Muslim-dominated constituencies to erode the votes of the Congress and different anti-BJP parties. He asserted that the AIUDF was a corporate governmental asset, belonging not to immoderate idiosyncratic but to the mediocre and marginalised sections of society.
Mr. Owaisi is scheduled to code astatine slightest 8 rallies successful enactment of AIUDF candidates during his two-day sojourn to the State.
