Social Media A Risk, Is helping Advertise Love Jihad, Says Assam Minister

Guwahati:

Assam BJP will release an enormous marketing campaign in opposition to “love jihad” circumstances forward of 2021 state elections, minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the BJP’s go-to guy within the northeast, declared lately. At a gathering of the party’s Mahila Morcha wing in Dibrugarh, Mr Sarma claimed social media was once the “new penance” and Assamese women had been “falling prey to like jihad”.

“Social media is (the) new threat since it’s serving to in selling love jihad. Via social media Assamese women are falling prey to like jihad… it is a cultural aggression on our society and later those women would possibly have to stand talaq …” he stated.

“When the BJP comes again to energy we will be able to ensure that if any Assamese lady is stressed or turns into sufferer of affection jihad and is trolled on social media, via other folks of hidden id, we will be able to put them in jail,” the minister declared.

Mr Sarma additionally alleged that “other folks from the tradition of Ajmal (a connection with AIUDF Lok Sabha MP Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, a famous Islamic cleric) had been at the back of “love jihad” in Assam. Mr Ajmal’s AIUDF (All India United Democratic Entrance) is observed to have large toughen from Bengali Muslims in Decrease Assam, who’re incessantly branded as unlawful immigrants from Bangladesh.

“500 or 600 years in the past the country was once going through Aurangzeb and Babar. Now we’ve a an identical problem… on this fashionable generation we’ve an issue like Ajmal. Our (Assamese) society is going through a risk from the tradition of Ajmal. In Decrease and Center Assam, the tradition of Assamese Satras were destroyed,” Mr Sarma raged.

“The sentinel of Ajmal began its encroachment pressure or even attempted to go into Higher Assam. In contrast backdrop we assumed energy underneath (Leader Minister Sarbananda) Sonowal’s management,” he added, checklist out the federal government’s fulfillment since.

Mr Sarma even alleged that rhino poaching Kaziranga was once the fault of Bengali Muslims, claiming that a number of have been arrested on such fees previously couple of years.

Claiming that 65 in keeping with cent of the state’s inhabitants, “who’re of Indian starting place”, would defeat the 35 in keeping with cent “from Ajmal’s tradition”, Mr Sarma additionally declared the “fight of Saraighat isn’t over”.

The BJP had referred to as the 2016 election via that title – a connection with a naval fight fought in 1671 between the Mughal Empire and the Ahom Kingdom.

“Fight of Saraighat isn’t over but. It’ll simplest recover from after each and every unmarried individual from the tradition of Ajmal is uprooted politically,” Mr Sarma stated.