01/02/2026
A spectacle is playing out in Assam. Let’s call it Himanta Biswa Sarma vs the Constitution of India. In the last seven days, the Assam chief minister has repeatedly – one should say brazenly – declared his hostility to a third of his state’s population.
“My job is to make the Miya people suffer,” he said on January 27.
The “Miya people” Sarma speaks of so contemptuously are the state’s Muslims of Bengali origin, many of whom arrived in Assam in the early 1900s