Jun 04, 2025 08:56 PM IST

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma stated these social media accounts had been allegedly opened by members of a selected group on a single day protecting the following 12 months’s meeting elections within the state in thoughts

Guwahati: Around 1,000 social media accounts suspected to have hyperlinks with Pakistan and Bangladesh are below investigation by the state police, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated on Wednesday.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated he would reveal extra particulars on September 10. (AP)

“I have asked the special branch (of Assam Police) to look at over 2,000 accounts on Facebook who are commenting on social media platforms on Assam election. Half of those accounts are from Bangladesh and Pakistan,” Sarma stated, after attending a cupboard assembly.

The CM stated that these accounts on platforms like Facebook had been allegedly opened by members of a selected group on a single day protecting the following 12 months’s meeting elections within the state in thoughts.

“The number will increase as the election nears as Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) wants somebody to win. If you read the comments, you will notice that those don’t have names of our people. I will reveal more details on September 10,” he added,

The CM was referring to the date when the particular investigation workforce (SIT) of state police is slated to make public its report on alleged hyperlinks of MP and newly appointed Assam Congress president, Gaurav Gogoi, and his British spouse to the navy and intelligence institutions of Pakistan.

Gogoi, who represents the Jorhat Lok Sabha seat in Assam, has denied the accusations and urged Sarma to make public particulars of the investigation sooner than the stipulated date. He has, nonetheless, admitted to visiting Pakistan in 2013 (earlier than he had develop into an MP) whereas his spouse Elizabeth was posted there with an NGO that works on local weather change.

Sarma stated that there was no competitors with Congress or every other social gathering for subsequent 12 months’s meeting polls within the state as nobody can match Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s improvement work and the goodwill for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“Nationalism, identity and development are BJP’s planks. But on the other hand, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is supporting Pakistan (on the issue of Operation Sindoor),” the CM stated.

“People of Assam are aware and they know that only BJP can protect the interests of indigenous people of the state and supports its policies like action against child marriages, evictions of illegal encroachers from ‘satras’ (Vaishnavite monasteries),” he added.

Sarma stated that previously few days, the Assam authorities has pushed again an unspecified variety of suspected Bangladeshis to the neighbouring nation.

“Could any Assamese have imagined that we would push back Bangladeshis? I will give you the number later. In the past one month, we have pushed back many of them saying they can’t stay here. Only BJP can do such a thing because we know what Assamese people want,” he stated.