GUWAHATI: Barpeta District Youth Congress unit has filed an FIR against senior BJP leader and Assam’s minister for finance, health and Education Dr Himanta Bishwa Sarma accusing him of making false and communal statements during a TV talk show.
The FIR filed by the Youth Congress district unit at Manida police outpost in Barpeta district, accuses the BJP minister of making ‘unconstitutional, false, communal and illegal’ statements during his talk show with the Consulting Editor, Atanu Bhuyan of a Assamese satellite TV News Channel DY365 based in Guwahati on January 16 last.
The FIR has been signed by 21 members of Barpeta District Youth Congress (DYC) including its president Anwarul Islam Khan .
The Barpeta Districtr Youth Congress has accused the minister of making false statements during the TV talks show about heavy presence of ‘Bangladeshis Muslim foreigners’ in Baghbar LAC where over 90 % populace have already been included in the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The FIR also stated that the minister’ statement regarding shifting of Moinbari Satra to Sarbhog due to ‘aggressive behaviour’ of local Muslim community was baseless and false. The DYC cliamed that the vaishnavite Satra, in fact, had to be shifted because of river erosion and local Muslim population provided all possible help in shifting the Satra property to its new location in Sarbhog on October 28, 2005.
It may be mentioned that the senior minister in the Assam Cabinet headed by chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has been very vocal in advocating for the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 that has faced heavy protest in Assam from several organisations.
