Himanta Biswa Sarma
14 May 2026
Press Trust of India on X: "VIDEO | Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says, "Already, Uttarakhand, Goa and Gujarat have passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Today, the Assam Cabinet has also passed the Uniform Civil Code. We have customised it to the requirements of Assam. We have completely exempted the tribal https://t.co/645Z75MuCl" / X exempted the tribal population from the purview of the Uniform Civil Code. We have also kept all rituals, traditions and customs practised by the people of Assam outside the scope of the Uniform Civil Code. So customs, rituals and traditions will not be part of the Uniform Civil Code."
He adds, "The UCC Bill will be laid before the Assembly on May 26. So this is one of the major decisions we have adopted in today’s Cabinet..."12 May 2026
STAR Boy TARUN on X: "Assam contains 34% of Muslim but electorally they are not as powerful, the reason is that they are concentrated in few areas It means in a few areas their population is 70-80%, and in 10-15%. That's the reason 20 Muslim MLAs won from Congress But civilizational security, love https://t.co/6rDsMrGtd0" / X security, love jihad, land jihad, and demographic changes are big issues in Assam, and Himanta effectively addressed them.
LAYER 1: THE STRUCTURAL MASTERSTROKE - DELIMITATION
Everything Himanta built in 2026 rests on a foundation he laid three years earlier. And he confirmed it without hesitation after counting day.
After the results, Himanta told reporters: “We knew that at least 102–103 seats were winnable for us.” The reason was the 2023 delimitation exercise, which ensured Muslim voters would play a decisive role in only 23 of the state's 126 constituencies.
The 2023 delimitation was the most consequential boundary-redrawing exercise in Indian state electoral history. Himanta didn't simply run a campaign. He redesigned the battlefield.
Before the 2023 delimitation, approximately 30 Muslim legislators were typically elected from Muslim-dominant constituencies. The redrawn maps brought that number down to 23 by abolishing several Muslim-majority Assembly seats, many of which were represented by legislators from Assam's Bengali-origin Muslim community.
The execution was surgical.
In Katigorah, Barak Valley - a seat Congress won in 2021 - 12 Muslim-majority villages were removed from its borders, and the Hindu-majority town of Badarpur was added. The Hindu proportion of the seat rose to 70%. BJP won Katigorah in 2026.
In Golakganj and Bilasipara in Dhubri district, Muslim proportions were reduced through boundary changes. Both seats went to the NDA. Barkhola - represented by Muslim legislators since 1951 - was won by the BJP for the first time in its history.
Poll analyst Yogendra Yadav described it as “communal gerrymandering” deploying three techniques: cracking - fragmenting Muslim voters across Hindu-majority seats; packing - concentrating them in as few decisive seats as possible; and stacking - adding Hindu-majority areas to Muslim-concentrated constituencies.
Himanta didn't deny it. He owned it. A senior minister in his government had predicted explicitly that delimitation would bring Muslim legislators down to 22. In 2026, exactly 22 Muslim opposition legislators were elected.
The election was decided in 2023. The votes in April 2026 were the confirmation, not the event.
LAYER 2: FRAGMENTING THE OPPOSITION - ENGINEERING THE MUSLIM VOTE SPLIT
Structural advantage alone doesn't win 102 seats. Himanta also had to ensure the Muslim vote never consolidated into a single opposition force capable of threatening the NDA in marginal constituencies.
The AIUDF - led by Badruddin Ajmal and historically the consolidator of Muslim votes - collapsed from a 9.4% vote share in 2021 to 5.29% in 2026.
Himanta facilitated this collapse through two mechanisms.
First: In August 2021, immediately after forming his government, the political groundwork was laid for Congress to break its alliance with AIUDF, ending the Mahajot bloc that had combined Muslim votes into a single electoral vehicle. Without Mahajot, Muslim voters were forced to choose between a weakened Congress and a diminished AIUDF, splitting their votes precisely where Himanta needed them split.
Second: Delimitation itself reduced the number of Muslim-decisive seats where AIUDF could win outright, making its electoral proposition less credible to its own base. Parties that cannot win seats cannot consolidate votes.
The opposition's own strategic paralysis compounded the fragmentation. Whenever Himanta targeted Miya Muslims with inflammatory rhetoric, Congress either stayed mute or responded only cautiously, fearing Hindu backlash at polling booths. The Muslim community was left without a confident electoral champion, while Congress simultaneously failed to win Hindu swing votes through its moderation. Both communities punished them for it.
The Muslim vote split three ways in 2026. That split was engineered years before polling day.
LAYER 3: THE TRIBAL COALITION - THE AFFIRMATIVE ARCHITECTURE HIMANTA BUILT
Here is what separates Himanta from a mere polarisation politician.
Winning 102 seats requires Hindu consolidation and Muslim fragmentation, but it also requires actively building a coalition with communities that have no natural affinity for Hindutva. Assam's tribal and indigenous communities - Bodos, Karbis, Tea Garden workers, Rabha, Tiwa, and Mishing communities - constitute approximately 15–18% of the state's population.
To win ethnic minorities not naturally drawn to Hindutva, Himanta used tailor-made welfare measures, including new reserved quotas, while strategically co-opting tribal elites through ticket distribution. In Bodoland, he allowed the Bodoland People's Front to set its own political narrative in exchange for electoral support. He understood that smaller ethnic groups tend to ally with the dominant party and used this gravitational dynamic to the NDA's advantage.
The Bodoland Territorial Region - 12 seats - went to the NDA through the BPF alliance. The tea garden belt of Upper Assam - 800+ estates and approximately 15% of the state's electorate - was cultivated through dedicated welfare schemes, ST status demands, and sustained physical presence. Their consolidation behind the NDA delivered the Upper Assam sweep.
Himanta built not a Hindu party in Assam, but a non-Muslim coalition: the indigenous Assamese Hindu, the Bodo, the tea garden worker, the Koch-Rajbongshi - united not by theology, but by a shared anxiety about demographic displacement and a shared reward from the dominant party. That coalition's internal diversity is what makes it durable.
LAYER 4: THE NARRATIVE WEAPON - DEMOGRAPHIC ANXIETY AS ELECTORAL FUEL
Himanta understood something that every Congress CM before him refused to acknowledge: the Assam Agitation never ended. It was merely suppressed by governments that managed its symptoms rather than addressed its cause.
His demographic warning to Assam was delivered with mathematical precision:
“In the 2011 Census, the Muslim population was 34%. Every year the trend of increase is 4%. If there had been a census in 2021, it would have been 38%. Today we are in 2025, add another 2%. So it is 40%. By 2041, Assam will become a Muslim-majority state. It's a reality and nobody can stop it.”
This statement does three things simultaneously. It validates the existential anxiety that indigenous Assamese Hindu voters have carried since 1979. It frames every BJP election as the last democratic opportunity to halt irreversible demographic displacement. And it converts every policy - delimitation, evictions, voter-roll scrutiny, madrasa closures - from administrative action into civilisational self-defence.
The opposition had no counter. Endorsing demographic anxiety would alienate Muslim voters. Dismissing it would alienate Hindu voters. Himanta owned the only coherent position available on Assam's defining political issue, and he occupied it completely.
LAYER 5: GOVERNANCE AS CAMPAIGN - POLICIES THAT SERVED DOUBLE DUTY
What makes Himanta's model genuinely different from polarisation alone is that every governance decision served simultaneously as policy and electoral preparation.
His multi-pronged approach included sustained eviction drives on encroached land, tighter scrutiny of citizenship and voter rolls, legislative repeal of the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorce Registration Act, 1935, large-scale closure of madrasas, and restrictions on welfare access for undocumented migrants.
Each policy delivered two outputs. Eviction drives removed encroachments from government and forest land, generating resentment among Muslims while demonstrating to indigenous communities that their land rights were being enforced with a seriousness no previous CM had matched. Madrasa closures were framed as educational reform, converting religious infrastructure into government schools while reducing the organisational ecosystem that sustained Muslim political mobilisation. Voter-roll scrutiny validated the NRC demand that Assam's Hindu voters had been making since 1985.
He governed the way he campaigned. He campaigned the way he governed. For five years, there was no gap between them.
THE SCOREBOARD: WHAT HIMANTA DELIVERED
• NDA Total Seats: 75 (2021) → 102 (2026) | +27 gain
• BJP Vote Share: 33.21% → 38.59% | +5.38% increase
• Muslim MLAs Elected (Opposition): 31 → 22 | -9 decline
• AIUDF Vote Share: 9.4% → 5.29% | -4.11% drop
• Muslim-decisive Seats: ~30 → 23 | -7 seats shift
• Congress Vote Share: ~30% → 29.26% | -0.74% marginal decline
Himanta Biswa Sarma has now been elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly six consecutive times - 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021, and 2026 - and is set to serve as Chief Minister for a second consecutive term, a feat achieved by no other BJP leader in a state with this level of Muslim demographic concentration.
THE VERDICT: WHAT HIMANTA ACTUALLY BUILT
The lazy analysis of the Himanta model reduces it to polarisation and gerrymandering. That misses the architecture entirely.
What Himanta built is a five-layer electoral machine that would function even if the polarisation element were removed, because the structural, coalitional, and governance layers would still deliver a majority. The polarisation layer is the accelerant, not the engine.
The engine is this: Himanta Biswa Sarma is the only BJP leader in India who understood that elections are won in the years before they are held.
He redrew the map in 2023. He fragmented the opposition in 2021–22. He built the tribal coalition between 2016 and 2021. He owned the narrative across two full election cycles. He governed as if every policy was an election advertisement, because in Assam, with its 40% Muslim demographic pressure and its living memory of the Assam Agitation, every policy actually is.
He said it himself after counting:
“We knew that at least 102–103 seats were winnable for us.”
He knew because he had built it, not merely won it. That is the Himanta Model. And it is among the most sophisticated subnational electoral architectures produced by any Indian politician in the last decade. 7:36PM 12 May 2026
11 May 2026
I agree with Rakesh Krishnan Simha that if Muslims are in the majority, then no other religion can exist in that area. During my time, there were many Hindus in Kashmir, and Kashmir was ruled by a Hindu King. King allowed Muslims to come and even allowed Muslims in the army. The result was that the King lost the area of Kashmir known as POK in 1947. Within 43 years, Muslims told Hindus to leave their house, property, land, and business and migrate to other areas of India. The Army and Congress government could not help Hindus. Hindus migrated to other areas of India and the world. Calls were given from the mosques, leave your wives and girls. Those who did not agree had to suffer the violence of Muslim leaders and others.
I used to travel to Kashmir for hops cultivation from 1974 to 1979. I appointed many Muslims and Hindus on behalf of Mohan Meakin Ltd., Dr. B.K.Bhatt was the head of the Regional Research Laboratory, who later migrated to Australia and America. It has happened in my lifetime. It is not a theory, but it is the truth.
Therefore, I agree with Himanta Biswa and Rakesh Krishnan Simha on their political acumen. But what is the solution? Europe and India must find a democratic solution to address this demographic problem.
I am not against the Muslim religion. But any religion that teaches and practices a violent culture is not acceptable to me. I believe that it should be discussed by the political scientists around the world. Political leaders of Europe and India must find a solution.
Rakesh Krishnan Simha on X: "Himanta Biswa Sarma: "I cannot stop Assam from becoming a Muslim majority state; I can only delay it for the next generation." The history of India shows that once an area turned Muslim majority, it became a permanent part of the ummah. Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh used https://t.co/0keXFFqnYY" / X Pakistan and Bangladesh used to be Hindu+Buddhist majority provinces of India but are now jehadi countries where non Muslims have zero rights.
India cannot afford to tie its destiny to demography because imported foreign ideologies are determined to supplant the indigenous religions of India and take control of the country via population growth.
India should be declared a Hindu Rashtra and the followers of indigenous religions should have priority in all walks of life. This is quite normal in many parts of the world. In Malaysia, Muslim Bhumiputras get preferential treatment over Tamil Hindus and Chinese. In all 57 Muslim countries, the indigenous Muslims are the sole beneficiaries while the non Muslims have Dhimmi status. India should follow the same model.
The concept of "One Person, One Vote" is dangerous not just for India but for every democratic country in the world because most people are not informed enough to vote. Plus, people with Leftist views vote to help Islamists gain power.
Democracy may seem like fun when tolerant groups like Hindus in India and Agnostic Whites in Western countries are the majority. But it is due to democracy that Islamists are able to create Sharia Zones where democracy does not operate. And Sharia Zones don't shrink; they expand outward. Himanta Biswa Sarma admits that he cannot stop Assam from becoming a Muslim majority state; he can only delay it for another generation. What happens to Assam Hindus then? Will they have to live like Dhimmis? Or flee like Kashmiri Hindus?
Kashmir is a stark example of what happens to Hindus in a Muslim majority region. The presence of the Indian Army couldn't prevent the expulsion of the 3% Hindu minority. In fact, the Kashmiri Muslims did not even factor the Indian Army in their calculations while expelling the Hindus. They knew there would be no consequences for genocide.
A Hindu living in democratic India is like a frog placed in a pot of water on the stove. Initially, as the temperature rises it feels nice and warm. But as the water starts boiling, the frog can no longer get out to safety. 2:56PM 11 May 2026
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7 May 2026
Press Trust of India on X: "VIDEO | Guwahati: AIUDF chief Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, during a press conference, says, “You may not know how the Congress party was formed, it was built jointly by Hindus and Muslims, and that was its secular character. Why have you not been able to ensure representation of both https://t.co/bW3qXxeHCE" / X both communities? Why could you not win even a few seats from Assamese areas?This shows that your party has declined and turned into a Muslim League-type party. You should revisit history. If you are not aware, I can write and send it to you, who all contributed to India’s freedom and who all built the Congress party. There was a time when Congress meetings would take place alongside those of Jamiat Ulama, and the resolutions passed by Jamiat would be adopted by the Congress. That situation no longer exists today. Therefore, they do not have the right to make such statements. They should introspect, consult their seniors, and understand history. They may not be aware of it yet due to their age.” 11:53PM 7 May 2026
21 November 2025
ANI on X: "#WATCH | Guwahati, Assam: On SIR, AIUDF MLA Rafiqul Islam says, "Election Commission declared SR in Assam. SIR is being carried out in 12 states, but it was said that since NRC is being done in Assam, SIR will not be carried out... But the Election Commission announced that a https://t.co/0igm4kVO0F" / X Election Commission announced that a Special Revision (SR) will be carried out in Assam starting from 22 November... What's more dangerous is that the CEO of Assam announced that anyone who wants to become a voter and resident of Assam, even two days before the list is published, will be allowed to do so... This is a dangerous conspiracy. If this is allowed, RSS and BJP cadres will come to Assam in large numbers and become voters here..." 1:39PM 21 Nov 2025.
25 May 2025
Himanta Biswa Sarma on X: "To those who habitually threaten India on the “Chicken Neck Corridor”, should note these facts as well: 1️⃣ Bangladesh has two of its own “chicken necks”. Both are far more vulnerable 2️⃣ First is the 80 Km North Bangladesh Corridor- from Dakhin Dinajpur to South West Garo https://t.co/DzV3lUAOhR" / X Garo Hills. Any disruption here, can completely isolate the entire Rangpur division from rest of Bangladesh.
Second is the 28 km Chittagong Corridor, from South Tripura till the Bay of Bengal. This corridor, smaller than India’s chicken neck, is the only link between Bangladesh’s economic capital and political capital. I am only presenting geographical facts that some may tend to forget. Just like India’s Siliguri Corridor, our neighbouring country is also embedded with two narrow corridors of theirs. Times Algebra on X: "๐จ CM HIMANTA BISWA : "97% of the population in Chittagong Hill Tracts was non-Muslim, yet it was assigned to East Pakistan" "In fact, Chakma leaders had raised the Indian flag in Rangamati, aspiring to merge with India" "But their aspirations were crushed when the area was https://t.co/1eK8DDOF2F" / X area was ultimately handed over to East Pakistan." 1:05 PM 25 May 2025
Second is the 28 km Chittagong Corridor, from South Tripura till the Bay of Bengal. This corridor, smaller than India’s chicken neck, is the only link between Bangladesh’s economic capital and political capital. I am only presenting geographical facts that some may tend to forget. Just like India’s Siliguri Corridor, our neighbouring country is also embedded with two narrow corridors of theirs. Times Algebra on X: "๐จ CM HIMANTA BISWA : "97% of the population in Chittagong Hill Tracts was non-Muslim, yet it was assigned to East Pakistan" "In fact, Chakma leaders had raised the Indian flag in Rangamati, aspiring to merge with India" "But their aspirations were crushed when the area was https://t.co/1eK8DDOF2F" / X area was ultimately handed over to East Pakistan." 1:05 PM 25 May 20254 May 2025
ANUPAM MISHRA on X: "เคौเคฐเคต เคोเคोเค เค
เคाเคฐी เคฌॉเคฐ्เคกเคฐ เคธे เคुเคชเคाเคช 15 เคฆिเคจों เคे เคฒिเคฏे เคชाเคिเคธ्เคคाเคจ เคाเคคे เคนैं, เคเคจเคी เคชเคค्เคจी (เคฌ्เคฐिเคिเคถ เคจाเคเคฐिเค) ISI เคฆ्เคตाเคฐा เคซंเคก เคिเคฏे เคा เคฐเคนे เคชाเคिเคธ्เคคाเคจी NGO เคธे เคคเคจเค़्เคตाเคน เคฒेเคคी เคนैं เคเคฐ เคौเคฐเคต เคญाเคฐเคค เคธเคฐเคाเคฐ เคो เคिเค्เค ी เคฒिเคเคเคฐ เค
เคชเคจे เคฌเค्เคों เคी เคญाเคฐเคคीเคฏ เคจाเคเคฐिเคเคคा เคธเคฐेंเคกเคฐ เคเคฐเคे เคเคจ्เคนें เคฆूเคธเคฐे เคฆेเคถ เคी เคจाเคเคฐिเคเคคा เคฆिเคฒाเคคे เคนैं https://t.co/cATCaQDtrX" / Xเคเคธ เคต्เคฏเค्เคคि เคो เคฐाเคนुเคฒ เคांเคงी เคฒोเคเคธเคญा เคฎें เค
เคชเคจे เคฌाเคฆ เคฆूเคธเคฐे เคจंเคฌเคฐ เคชเคฐ เคฐเคเคคे เคนैं, เคตिเคชเค्เคท เคा เคเคช เคจेเคคा เคฌเคจाเคคे เคนैं เคเคฐ เค
เคธเคฎ เคैเคธे เคธंเคตेเคฆเคจเคถीเคฒ เคฌॉเคฐ्เคกเคฐ เคฐाเค्เคฏ เคा เคฎुเค्เคฏเคฎंเคค्เคฐी เคฌเคจाเคจा เคाเคนเคคे เคนैं
12 February 2025
Action against YouTubers who propagate obscenity and fake news in India.
Himanta Biswa Sarma on X: "Today @GuwahatiPol has registered an FIR against against certain Youtubers and social Influencers, namely 1. Shri Ashish Chanchlani 2. Shri Jaspreet Singh 3. Shri Apoorva Makhija 4. Shri Ranveer Allahbadia 5. Shri Samay Raina and others for promoting obscenity and engaging in" / X engaging in sexually explicit and vulgar discussion in a show titled ' India's Got Latent'. Guwahati Crime Branch has registered a case vide Cyber PS case no 03/2025 under sections - 79/95/294/296 of BNS 2023 read witb Sec 67 of IT Act, 2000, read with Section 4/7 of Cinematograph Act 1952 read with Section 4/6 of Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 .
ANI on X: "Maharashtra Cyber Cell filed a case against the YouTube show 'India's Got Latent'. A case has been filed against a total of 30 to 40 people. A case has been filed against all the people who were involved from the first episode of the show to episode 6. The process of sending" / X The process of sending notices to everyone has been started. Everyone will be called to record their statements: Maharashtra Cyber Cell
2 January 2025
Press Trust of India on X: "STORY | Influx from Bangladesh not by minority Hindus but 'majority community' members: Assam CM (@himantabiswa) READ: https://t.co/PCwDw6p1de VIDEO: (Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/n147TvrpG7) https://t.co/Px0hG05wEn" / X He has raised a right point by informing that cheap labour is migrating from Bangla Desh to India. Indian textile industry is paying them well. But these migrants are Muslim.
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I agree with Himanta Biswa but I add: เค
เคเคฐ เคนिंเคฆुเคค्เคต เคธुเคฐเค्เคทिเคค เคฐเคนेเคा เคคो เคฆेเคถ เคे เคธाเคฅ เคธाเคฅ เคตिเคถ्เคต เคญी เคธुเคฐเค्เคทिเคค เคฐเคนेเคा |
30 October 2024
Himanta Biswa Sarma on X: "I want to assure you that the government is deeply committed to preserving our city’s heritage and environment while advancing infrastructure. In constructing the flyovers from Dighalupukhuri to Noonmati, we are sincerely working to protect the old trees in the area. I urge all" / X Sustainable development is the main goal of Assam Government of Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Infiltrator nabbed, sent back to Bangladesh: Assam CM A Bangladeshi infiltrator, Mohibulla, was apprehended near the international border and pushed back across the border in Karimganj," Sarma said in a post on X.
Assam STF busts Manipur-Assam drug cartel, seizes Rs 6 crore heroin, arrests two
How did migration change Assam? - Times of India Migration and Conflict.
11 October 2024
Ratan Tata died on 10 October 2024. His last speech in Assam is reproduced. News24 on X: "“เคฅैंเค्เคฏू เคฎिเคธ्เคเคฐ เคช्เคฐाเคเคฎ เคฎिเคจिเคธ्เคเคฐ...” ◆ เคฐเคคเคจ เคाเคा เคी เคเคिเคฐी เคธ्เคชीเค เคธोเคถเคฒ เคฎीเคกिเคฏा เคชเคฐ เคตाเคฏเคฐเคฒ #RatanTata | #EndOfAnEra | The Titan | The Icon | Industrialist | #RatanTataSir https://t.co/X4yg4SgOgJ" / X (twitter.com)
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