Assam CM Himanta Sarma clarifies ‘anti-Bengali’ remark, TMC accuses him of xenophobia

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Replacing Assamese as mother tongue will help us know the number of foreigners: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma



At the same time, he alleged that TMC is ‘distorting’ his comments and he is being shown as ‘anti-Bengali’.He said that TMC is misinterpreting his comments because of their desperate plot to hide Bangladeshi infiltrators.He wrote on X that Assam has been fighting against Bangladeshi infiltrators for decades. The presence of these infiltrators can change the demographic structure of the country.He also tagged the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, and the BJP’s central observer (organizational) Sunil Bansal in his post.Responding to his post, Bhattacharya also took to X and wrote: “You claim your Govt. only targets ‘illegal Bangladeshi Muslims’. But in the final NRC list, out of the 19.6 lakh people excluded, 12 lakh were Bengali Hindus. Was their faith the problem too? Or was it their language?”He said, “You say your crusade isn’t against Bengalis. Then how do you explain the fact that all but four of the 30 people who died in Assam’s detention centres were Bengali-speaking?”“Your track record shows only one unifying marker of persecution: Bengali. This isn’t about illegal immigration. This is about your PATHOLOGICAL HATRED for a language, a people, and a culture,” the post added.



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