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Amid the row implicit a viral video purportedly showing him taking purpose and firing with a firearm astatine members of a peculiar community, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that helium ever makes statements wrong law limits, and that’s wherefore helium has thing to fear.
Asked astir the Supreme Court connected Monday (February 16, 2026) refusing to entertain petitions seeking enactment against him implicit the viral video, Mr. Sarma said successful Mirzapur connected Monday (February 16), “Look, immoderate statements I make, they are ever wrong law limits. That's wherefore I person nary fear.” Mr. Sarma besides took a jibe astatine suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir's announcement to conception a replica of the Babri Masjid successful West Bengal's Murshidabad district.
“Whatever I say, I talk for the bully of Assam and the Hindu society. And I volition proceed to bash so. I judge that I ne'er transverse law limits,” Mr. Sarma said.
On Monday (February 16), a CJI-led Supreme Court Bench refused to entertain petitions seeking enactment against the Assam Chief Minister implicit the viral video purportedly showing him taking purpose and firing with a firearm astatine members of the Muslim community.
The Bench asked the petitioners to attack the Gauhati High Court with their grievances and directed the Chief Justice of the High Court to expedite the proceeding successful the matter.
Asked if it was due for a Chief Minister to constituent a weapon towards a peculiar community, Mr. Sarma said helium lone does things that suit him.
“Remember 1 happening – our [Assamese Hindu population] numbers reduced from 80% to 60%, and the secular radical should besides recognize our concern.” Asked astir the projected mosque successful Murshidabad, Mr. Sarma told reporters, “It is simply a 'putlaa' [dummy] of the Babri Masjid, not the archetypal [mosque]. When the archetypal is gone, what volition the 'putlaa' do?" Last Wednesday (February 11, 2026), Humayun Kabir began the operation of the much-hyped mosque modelled connected Ayodhya's Babri Masjid astatine Beldanga successful Murshidabad district.
Mr. Kabir, who precocious floated the Janata Unnayan Party (JUP) aft his ouster from the Trinamool Congress, announced that the mosque astatine Rejinagar successful Beldanga would beryllium completed wrong 2 years and outgo astir ₹50-55 crore.
The mosque is being built connected an 11-acre crippled and volition person the capableness to accommodate astir 12,000 radical to connection namaz.
Following Mr. Kabir's announcement, the Vishva Hindu Raksha Parishad, a right-wing group, had called connected the radical of Uttar Pradesh to march to Murshidabad.
On driving retired Bangladeshi infiltrators from Assam, Mr. Sarma said it is simply a large occupation faced by the State. “I thrust distant 100-150 of them daily. But the fig is big. Right now, we person removed them from 50,000 acres of onshore successful Assam. I person cleared 50,000 acres of onshore successful 5 years.
“At a gathering with the Prime Minister, I said that I volition present thrust these radical distant from 1.5 lakh acres of land. The full onshore nether their possession is 10 lakh acres," Mr. Sarma claimed.
On Rahul Gandhi criticising the India-U.S. interim commercialized deal, Mr. Sarma wondered if the Congress person could adjacent work the agreement.
“If determination is nary 1 astir him (Rahul Gandhi), helium volition not beryllium capable to work the full document. Rahul Gandhi’s intelligence information is not good. He needs due treatment," Mr. Sarma said.
On the examination betwixt Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Tipu Sultan, Mr. Sarma claimed, “One was a protector of Hindus [Shivaji Maharaj], and the different [Tipu Sultan] was a destroyer of Hindus. How tin some beryllium equal?”
