Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday alleged that greater than 5,000 social media accounts, run largely by Islamic nations, are favouring the Congress occasion’s state unit. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma stated a lot overseas involvement in Assam politics is there within the run-up to the 2026 meeting elections for the primary time. (ANI) Addressing a press convention, Himanra Sarma claimed that accounts from 47 nations, largely from Pakistan and Bangladesh, have been specializing in the actions of a specific Assam Congress chief and the unit’s actions over the previous month. “It is surprising that they do not comment on or like posts by Rahul Gandhi or even the Indian National Congress. They are only focused on a particular leader and the Assam Congress,” the Assam CM was quoted as saying by information company PTI. While Sarma didn’t identify the actual chief of the Congress’s state unit, it appeared that he was referring to Gaurav Gogoi. Gogoi was appointed because the president of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee within the final week of May. “We are not concerned with the change in the party’s leadership in the state, but this development has taken place in the last month and there must be some link,” the CM stated. “For the first time, there is so much foreign involvement in Assam politics in the run-up to the 2026 assembly elections,” he added. Matter of ‘national security’These social media handles, apart from Assam, additionally reportedly submit content material associated to Islamic fundamentalists, together with these of pro-Palestine, Iran, and Bangladesh’s chief advisor Mohammad Yunus. Further, Sarma stated that the central authorities has been knowledgeable of the difficulty which, he stated, is of “national security”. Noting that a number of the 5,000 accounts are being run with their location marked as Guwahati, the Assam CM stated, “We are not ruling out that some of the accounts may be from within the state.” ALSO READ | Assam: 2 extra held for ‘anti-Hindu’ social media posts, taking whole arrests to 92 since Pahalgam assault”The locations are disclosed in the accounts, and we conducted a forensic audit of those who had joined in the last month,” Sarma added. He stated the forensic audit discovered that 700 accounts are from Bangladesh, 350 from Pakistan, 246 from Saudi Arabia, 86 from Kuwait, and 35 from Afghanistan. He raised an alarm, citing considerations that over 5,000 social media accounts have been opened in a month, “and they are commenting and liking posts related to Assam”. ALSO READ | Assam will deport ‘foreigners’ even when their names function in NRC: HimantaThe Assam CM claimed that there’s additionally data that some folks from outdoors have rented lodging in two localities in Guwahati, and have related with YouTubers and social media influencers for a similar. “Surveillance is being kept on them. Fundamentalist elements have entered Assam and are active in the run-up to the elections,” Sarma added. Further, the CM alleged that these social media accounts have additionally made inroads into some digital media organisations within the state. Sarma claimed that there additionally existed plans for establishing a name centre in Kolkata to hold out these actions. The Assam CM stated additionally it is doable that these social media account holders are related by means of WhatsApp and different messaging apps, as they’re all from completely different nations and time zones. Further, Sarma claimed that Muslims from Assam, indigenous or migrants, is not going to submit any such content material. In the following stage, Sarma asserted that these social media accounts could even take shadow Hindu names like “many do to marry Hindu women”. The Assam chief minister famous that Assam and the North East have all the time been on the worldwide fundamentalist radar, and hardcores have all the time had the “unfinished agenda” of severing the ‘hen neck’ to make the state part of Bangladesh. “We are in a very critical situation and the entire matter is being looked into from the national security angle”, Sarma added.

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