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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma connected Sunday (January 25, 2026) said lone ‘Miyas’ (a pejorative for Bengali-speaking Muslims) are being evicted from the State.
“Only ‘Miyas’ are evicted successful Assam. How tin Assamese radical beryllium evicted,” Mr. Sarma told reporters here, dismissing reports that anti-encroachment drives volition beryllium undertaken successful the hills surrounding Guwahati.
‘Miya’ is primitively a pejorative word utilized for Bengali-speaking Muslims successful Assam, and the non-Bengali-speaking radical mostly place them arsenic Bangladeshi immigrants. In caller years, activists from the assemblage person started adopting this word arsenic a motion of defiance.
Mr. Sarma maintained that it was the media which was spreading rumours of imaginable eviction successful Guwahati hills. “Till election, erstwhile not a azygous eviction volition happen, past radical residing successful the hills volition recognize that it was the media which gave them tension,” helium claimed.
Elections for the 126-member Assembly are owed successful the archetypal fractional of this year, successful which the BJP-led conjugation volition question a 3rd consecutive term.
“The BJP has been successful powerfulness successful the State for 10 years now. Where has eviction been carried retired successful Guwahati hills,” Mr. Sarma asked, adding that the authorities was moving connected providing onshore rights to the radical residing connected the hills.
He, however, maintained that eviction announcement volition beryllium fixed to immoderate Muslim migrant residing successful the hills.
Accusing the Congress of pandering to the Muslim community, Mr. Sarma said, “The Congress has said that it has received 750 applications from prospective candidates seeking enactment ticket. But what they didn’t accidental is that 600 of these applicants are ‘Miyas’. Only astir 120-130 applicants are Hindus.”
He said the Congress has “become a menace to our religion, culture, and the much convincingly we decision them, the much we tin prevention our authorities and ‘jati’ (community).”
Mr. Sarma said that the details of State Congress president Gaurav Gogoi’s alleged links to Pakistan volition beryllium made nationalist precise soon. “I privation to uncover it by January 31. But since determination is the Union Budget connected February 1, determination mightiness beryllium a hold by a time oregon two,” helium added.
The BJP has been attacking Lok Sabha MP Gogoi implicit his wife’s alleged transportation with Pakistan’s spy bureau ISI. The State authorities had formed a Special Investigation Team to probe a lawsuit of alleged interference of Pakistani nationalist Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, who was claimed to person links with Mr. Gogoi’s British woman Elizabeth Colburn, successful India’s interior affairs.
