Owaisi seeks action against Assam CM over ‘point-blank shot’ video

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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi. File

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi. File | Photo Credit: PTI

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi connected Monday (February 9, 2026) lodged a ailment with the metropolis constabulary seeking transgression enactment against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma implicit a now-deleted purported video shared connected societal media.

The video, which was posted by the Assam BJP connected 'X' and aboriginal removed, allegedly showed Mr. Sarma taking purpose with a firearm and firing a changeable astatine 2 individuals—one wearing a skull headdress and the different sporting a beard—with the caption "point-blank shot."

In a station connected 'X', the Hyderabad MP said, "Unfortunately, genocidal hatred code has go a norm." In his complaint, Mr. Owaisi accused Mr. Sarma of "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the spiritual feelings of Muslims", beforehand enmity betwixt the 2 spiritual communities, and marque imputations prejudicial to nationalist integration.

The AIMIM main further accused Mr. Sarma of continuously making statements implicit the past respective years against the Muslim assemblage done societal media, people platforms, nationalist speeches and different forums.

He alleged that successful caller months, the Chief Minister had deliberately intensified his "hate speeches with a wide and conscious volition to outrage the spiritual feelings of Muslims and beforehand enmity and hatred betwixt Hindus and Muslims", afloat alert that specified imputations are prejudicial to nationalist integration and destructive of communal harmony.

Mr. Owaisi said the caller purported video posted connected the 'X' grip of the BJP’s Assam portion connected February 7—which was taken down a time aboriginal but continues to circulate connected societal media—depicts Mr. Sarma being portrayed arsenic equipped with a firearm and aiming it astatine persons "clearly depicted arsenic Muslims", earlier shooting astatine them.

"The said station and video, on with the imagery utilized and phrases specified arsenic ‘point-blank shot’ and ‘no mercy’, represent a deliberate and malicious enactment intended to outrage the spiritual feelings of Muslims, beforehand hatred and ill-will betwixt spiritual communities, and incite communal violence," Mr. Owaisi said, seeking ineligible enactment against Mr. Sarma successful accordance with the law.

Published - February 09, 2026 05:09 p.m. IST

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