GUWAHATI : In a bid to thwart attacks on Bengali speaking Muslim community in Assam, the state government is mulling over the idea of arming the local population.
The state government has asked the villagers in Kokrajhar and Baksa area to submit applications to procure arms.
Meanwhile, the Congress Party has attacked BJP for its communal statements with an intent to stroke communal polarisation to garner votes.
“The violence in Assam is the result of communal polarisation being done by Narendra Modi and BJP. Since BJP’s graph is going down now, they have raised the pitch. Modi’s speech in Assam was an attempt to polarise voters,” Congress leader Meem Afzal said.
Thirty-two people were killed, several others injured and thousands rendered homeless in two districts of Assam after attacks by militants belong to the anti-talks IK Songbijit faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-S).
The Congress leader said that the main opposition was trying to replicate what they did in states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh especially keeping in mind the Lok Sabha Elections.
“They have tried to do polarisation in Assam in the same manner that they did in Bihar and UP. They are also doing it keeping in mind upcoming phases of polls in Bihar and UP,” Afzal added. A political blame game over the Assam violence has erupted with BJP faulting “vote-bank” politics of Congress governments at the Centre.
Blaming Modi for the Assam violence, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah had said that muslims were targeted because Modi made a speech there and tried to “incite” people against the community.
Senior Congress leader and Union Minister Kapil Sibal had also accused BJP leaders of playing the “communal card” to garner votes.
BJP, meanwhile, has accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of “not doing enough” to maintain law and order and good governance in Assam.
It alleged that Congress-led governments were indulging in “votebank politics” and not taking adequate steps to control the situation in the state.
In the picture, security personnel patrol a deserted road during a curfew in Baksa district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.
Source:Daily Bhaskar
Stupid people. BODOS are not Hindus. They are a Tribal group and practice Bathouism and Christianity.
Don’t bring Hindus and Modi into every riot, flood, and tsunami.
Get your facts right.
As of 2010, more than 90% of the Bodos living in Assam were believers of Bathouism. However, the percentage of Christians is growing.
Illegal immigration from Bangladesh has been a big problem.
However, if any group, be it Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Bodo, tries to torture and kill others, then such groups must be decimated.
We need a strong government, not a VoteBank Govt.
@ true Indian don’t try to fool others by telling a tribal group killed people. Hindu terrorist getting new ideas to kill muslims. Why everytime muslims are being killed in India. Now they are calling legal citizens of India as intruders so thay can continue this killing spree. If you are so bothered about illegal citizens why don’t you ask feku your prime ministirial candidat when he said that ” illegal citizens should pack bags but people who worship durga, shiva can enter”. You tell one thing and practice another thing and you want others to believe it.
LAKHS of Kashmiri Pandits have been thrown out of Kashmir..Thousands killed..Whole villages burnt..because they were Hindus. So, stop proclaming that only Muslims are suffering.
Any kind of Religious Terrorism will not be tolerated. Every Indian should put India first and then think of religion.
Hindus and Muslims must stand united. Those who care only about their religion, will perish.
Bodos are the oldest tribal of India since 5000B.C,… We are infact not Hindus… We have one of the oldest religion of the world called “Bhatou” in Bodo “Ba” or “va” means five and “thou” meaning deep Bhatou means deep philosophy of five.. . . Five is a very significant number not only for Bodos but for this world. . “Bhatou” is a worship of five basic elements namely Ha(Earth), Dwi(Water),Barr(Air), Or(Fire) and Ukurang(Sky).. . Humans may be the most intelligent animal but not most powerful animal, because he can’t face the above mentioned five elements.. . . without Air,Water,Earth,Fire and Sky no one can live in this world thats what the “Bhatou” says.. . . . The main deity of Bhatou is “Afa Sibrai” Hindus called him “Shiva”, but the term Shiva/ Siva have no appropriate meaning in sanskrit, infact “Siva” was not originally a hindu god, he was worship by all Tribals living in this world,… . . If we split the term “Siva” into two parts then we get two words “Si” and “Ba” or “Va” this words have very close meaning in Bodo language, “Si” means the Person who have deep knowledge or in other sense “Great” and “Ba” or “Va” means “Five”, hence Siva/ Siba means the God who have a deep knowledge of five elements namely Air,Water,Fire,Earth and Sky, which we do worship in “Bhatou”… Infact, the word “Bodo” came from the word “Bodosa” which again traces its origin from the word “Bhatousa” meaning the “Children of Bhatou” or Children of Five Gods(Air,Water,Fire,Earth and Sky), . . However, some scholars used the term “Bodh” which mean tibet so according to them Bodo means tibet, but Bodos are not Tibetan, most probably Bodos(The Children of Five Gods) migrated here in Indus(Chindi) around 8000 B. C from Africa…. First known as Nagas.. The rulers of Entire Jambudwipa(India), who came much before Aryans… The term “Hindu” which is derived from the river “Chindi” or “Sindi” is a Bodo term in Bodo “Chin” means the Chin people and Dwi/ di means river, meaning “the river of Chins”, The Kiratas who fought in Mahabharata war were all Great BODOS, The subject of Asuras are none but the Bodos, The Mlechchas mentioned in Purans are none but the great Bodos, They are mentioned even in Kalika Purana,and Shiba purana,..The Kamakhya temple present here in Guwahati itself was built by Narakasura(The Bodo king,discriminated in Hindu mythology), In Bodo Kamakhya means the structure of Bodo Goddess Kamakhya(Sati), This proves that Bodos are the first settlers of Assam,and Oldest tribes of India, “The Children of Five God”/ “Lord Shiva”, We have great Histories,Great Culture,Great Religion,Bodos are simple, honest and trustworthy writes foreign Scholar Rev.Sidney Endle,…He was not wrong. We The “Great BODOS”, . . Historically “The Master Race Of The World”… Don’t call us Hinduz.