How Assam’s new chief minister is leveraging Assamese nationalism to push Hindutva
How Assam’s new chief minister is leveraging Assamese nationalism to push Hindutva
Himanta Biswa Sarma left the Congress for BJP barely six years ago. Yet the first 45 days of his government have already evoked comparisons with Adityanath. 6 hours ago Assam chief minister pays tributes to Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, in Guwahati on June 23. | Twitter/ HimantaBiswa
On June 2, Assam’s newly appointed chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took to Twitter to list out the names of 22 people accused of assaulting a doctor at a Covid-19 care centre in Hojai district the previous day.
There are some books that immediately grab your attention by dint of their titles. Indian journalist Zafri Mudasser Nofil s The Identity Quotient: The Story of the Assamese Muslims , published by Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, is one such book. The publication of the 179-page book could not have possibly come at a more opportune time with fresh assembly elections in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam just a couple of months away, setting the stage for playing out of linguistic, ethnic and religious fault lines among the voters. In recent times, the contentious issues of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) have heated up the political cauldron in Assam, especially for its 1.07 crore Muslim residents, who constitute 34.22 percent of the state s total population of 3.12 crore (as per the last census in 2011).
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