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Himanta Calls For Restraint Amid Anti-Bengali Stir
The New Indian Express Sambalpur
|August 08, 2025
EVEN as a campaign against Bangla-speaking Muslims in parts of upper Assam intensifies, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma appealed to people not to take the law into their own hands.
Sarma said places like Lakhimpur, Jorhat, and Sivasagar are the "borghar" (heartland) of the Assamese. "If somebody enters our borghar and nobody speaks up, who will rescue the 'jati' (race) ?" he asked.
This story is from the August 08, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Sambalpur.
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