Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday (January 27, 2026) said that “four to five lakh Miya voters” will be deleted when the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls takes place in the poll-bound State, triggering sharp reactions from opposition leaders.
Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of an official programme in Tinsukia district’s Digboi, he also insisted that his job was to make the Miya—a pejorative term used in Assam for Bengali-speaking Muslims, often labelled Bangladeshi—people suffer.
