Minorities Favoured Congress, Hindus Voted on Merit in Lok Sabha Polls: Himanta Sarma's Bold Remark

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, no stranger to making bold statements, on Saturday, accused minority community of voting for Congress in large numbers in Lok Sabha elections 2024 despite development work done by his BJP government. 

In a veiled attack on Muslims, he ded that Hindus didn't indulge in appeasement politics as y voted for candidates from every party based on ir merit.

dressing a felicitation event of victorious MPs of BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Guwahati, Sarma said, “I proudly say that Hindu community in Assam did not do politics of appeasement. Hindus have voted on merit.”  

"But a particular community has done such tactical voting that no matter how much development has taken place in ir area, community has given its 100 per cent vote to Congress,” he ded.  

'One Community Does Communalism'

Sarma claimed that Hindus don't indulge in communalism. "If someone commits communalism in Assam, one community does it, one religion does it, and no or religion commits communalism re. This election is proof of that,” he remarked.

“Someone is contesting against Sarbananda Sonowal ji; someone is contesting against Bijuli Kalita Medhi, and someone is contesting against Dilip Saikia. people of Assam have voted for us based on merit, hope, aspiration and within complaint of scarcity, y also voted for party that was against us,” Sarma ded.

NDA won 11 of 14 seats in Assam in 2024 Lok Sabha elections, while INDIA bloc, led by Congress, won or three seats.