New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) have approached the court demanding action against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his hatespeeches targeting Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam, a report by Live Law stated.
Advocate Nizam Pasha requested an urgent hearing by the top court, citing disturbing speeches made by the sitting CM of Assam, including a recent video posted where he is shown as shooting at members of a particular community. Pasha pointed out that despite complaints being filed against Sarma, who is infamous for his anti-Muslim hate discourse, no FIRs were registered.
The court said that it will give a date.
The Left parties and Annie Raja filed separate writ petitions demanding registrations of FIRs against the Assam CM over complaints of hate speech and communal polarisation. There are complaints demanding the formation of a Special Investigation Team by the Supreme Court to investigate the matter. Complainants argue that the State and Central agencies might not carry out an independent or impartial probe.
After openly urging people to engage in inflicting maximum harassment on Muslims, particularly Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam, Himanta Sarma appeared in a video posted on the Assam BJP unit’s official X handle that showed him symbolically shooting Muslims at point-blank range, an act widely viewed as akin to a call for genocide, and the video was later removed following a fierce public backlash.
Text flashing across the video included phrases such as “point blank shoot,” “foreigner free Assam,” “No mercy,” “Why did you not go to Pakistan?” and “There is no forgiveness to Bangladeshis,” and critics said the language explicitly targeted Bengali-origin Muslims by portraying them as violent outsiders.