GUWAHATI:
Jorhat MP and Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi on Saturday (January 31, 2026) said that Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma went quiet after being reminded that he was dragging the Supreme Court into his anti-’Miya’ narrative.
Miya, a respectful term elsewhere in India, is a pejorative used often in Assam to mean Bengali-speaking Muslims or people from Bangladesh who entered the country illegally.
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The Chief Minister, on January 29, asserted that his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government would continue to cause trouble to the ‘Miya’ and that they did not have the right to vote in Assam. He claimed that his statements were grounded in the observations made by the Supreme Court. He also cited the apex court’s “warning of a silent and demographic invasion of Assam”.
