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Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s bureau connected Monday (January 19, 2026) took superior enactment of reports successful sections of the media claiming that an interior struggle wrong the Assam BJP had reached New Delhi, allegedly based connected a missive written by Mr. Sonowal to the party’s nationalist president.
Issuing a categorical clarification, the Minister’s bureau said the purported missive — claiming demands for a enactment alteration successful Assam and making allegations against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma — is wholly fake, fabricated and forged. It added that the papers carries a forged authoritative letterhead and a fake signature of Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
Criminal offence
The bureau said the circulation of specified fraudulent worldly amounts to a superior transgression offence involving forgery, impersonation and misuse of authoritative authorities identity, seemingly aimed astatine spreading misinformation and discrediting a law authority.
An FIR has been lodged, and instrumentality enforcement agencies person been asked to analyse the substance connected precedence and instrumentality strict ineligible enactment against those responsible.
Rejecting the claims outright, the bureau clarified that determination is nary information whatsoever successful the allegations of interior rivalry oregon immoderate specified correspondence attributed to Mr. Sonowal. The nationalist and media person been advised not to trust connected oregon circulate fake and unverified worldly and to verify accusation lone done authoritative and authorised sources.
