In an aggressive move to dominate the state’s political narrative, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has weaponized the absence of official census data to push a divisive “civilizational” agenda. Addressing the BJP state executive, Sarma used unverified projections to claim that the population of Bangladeshi-origin Muslims will surge to 40% by 2027—a figure that opposition leaders and demographic experts have slammed as baseless fear-mongering. By framing these speculative numbers as an existential threat, Sarma is accused of intentionally polarizing the electorate to mask governance failures and secure a hardline partisan advantage ahead of upcoming polls.
The Chief Minister’s assault extended beyond demographics into a systematic attempt to dismantle Assam’s syncretic heritage. He explicitly rejected the centuries-old “Shankar-Azan” cultural tradition as a “leftist fabrication,” while dismissing minority historical figures like Bag Hazarika as “fictional.” Critics contend that this revisionist campaign is not a pursuit of historical accuracy, but a calculated strategy to erase minority contributions from the state’s collective memory. By replacing a shared history with a narrow, exclusionary identity, Sarma’s rhetoric threatens to permanently fracture the social cohesion of the Northeast’s gateway state.
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