The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Sunday (November 23, 2025), claimed a stronger “indigenous presence” in 103 of the State’s 126 Assembly constituencies compared to half a decade ago.
The party attributed this trend to the delimitation exercise in 2023, and the “significant progress” made in securing the political and land rights of the State’s indigenous communities under the leadership of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
“…the recent delimitation exercise reportedly ensured that more than 103 Assembly constituencies would now reflect a stronger indigenous presence, an outcome the party described as a major step toward long-standing political safeguards,” the BJP said in a statement.
The Chief Minister indicated that the Bengali Muslims are in a majority in the remaining 23 constituencies.
“The Congress party will contest 22 seats (in the 2023 Assembly elections). Miyas are the oxygen of Congress, and the party’s politics revolves around them,” he said on the sidelines of an official event, naming five of these seats. ‘Miya’ is a pejorative term used in Assam to refer to Muslims with roots in present-day Bangladesh. The Chief Minister insisted that he would keep pestering the “suspected Miyas” as long as he remained in office.
