Himanta Biswa Sarma Draws Massive Criticism Over 'Extremely Hateful Speech'
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s recent hate speech has drawn severe criticism from political parties for making outright ‘communally divisive’ language during the election campaigning in Jharkhand. The opposition alliance INDIA bloc has filed a formal complaint against the BJP leader, accusing him of making “inflammatory statements”.
The complaint addressed the Election Commission India and the Jharkhand state chief electoral officer and was submitted by delegations of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Congress, and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
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Notorious for making outrageous and divisive remarks, Sarma, in a speech delivered on November 1 in Jharkhand, said that Hindus in chief minister Hement Soren’s Jharkhand is becoming outsiders. Calling for Hindu unity, the Assam chief minister said that these Irfan, Ansari, and Alam will loot the community if they were divided. He was referring to the Muslim minorities.
हम बटे तो ये इरफ़ान, अंसारी, आलम हमे लूट ले जाएँगे- असम के बीजेपी के मुख्यमंत्री झारखंड चुनाव में
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Sarma had earlier responded to the allegations of divisive remarks about Assam Muslims by asserting that he would continue to take sides and would not let Miya Muslims takeover the land, which many called insensitive and absurd.
However, the opposition’s complaint against the BJP leader, who is also the BJP election in charge of Jharkhand, noted that his use of extremely divisive and hateful words in the speech targeting the Muslim minorities are clear examples of the venomous language being used by him to create a civil war-like situation and incite violence in the ensuing assembly elections. It pointed out statements such as ‘Woh log ek hi jageh par vote daalte hain lekin humaara Hindu aadha vote idhar daalega aadha udhar (They will vote for the same person, but Hindus will not vote together)’ and ‘ye sarkar ghuspaithiya ko bulaata hai kyuki vishesh samudaay unko vote deta hai (This government calls infiltrators because a particular community votes for it)’ to name a few from his recent speech.
The members of the opposition bloc have also warned that they would approach the court if the poll body was reluctant to take action on the incident.
