Guwahati: Congress party with the help of Islamist organisations are trying to spread unrest in Assam. The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that a well-orchestrated political conspiracy to disrupt Assam’s social harmony was hatched during a dinner meeting in Delhi on the night of July 23. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bhawan in Guwahati, BJP spokesperson Ranjib Kumar Sharma described Rajya Sabha MP Arsad Madani as a “sleeper cell of the Congress.”
He noted that Madani, who entered the Upper House as a joint candidate of the Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav and the Congress, had long served as a political adjunct to the Congress and its allies. Sharma claimed that Madani had actively campaigned for Congress-led candidates in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Bihar during the last Lok Sabha elections. He accused the Assam Congress of hypocrisy for attempting to brand Madani as a “BJP agent,” while his political leanings were evident to anyone aware of his affiliations.
The BJP spokesperson further alleged that Lurinjyoti Gogoi, President of the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), had emerged as one of the chief protectors and coordinators of Congress’s vote-bank appeasement politics. Once projecting himself as a regionalist leader, Gogoi had, according to Sharma, reduced himself to a “blue-eyed boy of 10 Janpath,” transforming into a vocal propagandist for Congress’s communal polarization strategy.
Sharma described this ideological decline as a matter of “deep political shame.” Sharma insisted that Madani’s arrival in Assam was not a coincidence but part of a pre-planned communal political design. He alleged that during the July 23 dinner at a five-star hotel in Delhi, attended by senior leaders of the Congress, Samajwadi Party, National Conference, and other groups, a blueprint was drawn up to engineer polarization in Assam and push the state into instability.According to Sharma, the decision taken that night was to distort the issue of eviction of illegal encroachers in Assam at the national level, thereby igniting communal sentiments.
He cited the timeline of events: the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind’s meeting in Delhi on August 21, where a resolution was passed demanding the Assam Chief Minister’s resignation; subsequent meetings in Guwahati led by civil society figures including Dr. Hiren Gohain and Ajit Kumar Bhuyan; and public speeches by Syeda Hameed, which the BJP claimed has spread “anti-Assam propaganda” in both Guwahati and Delhi.
The BJP alleged that Hameed’s speeches directly preceded Madani’s visit to Assam, and that a series of eviction-protest events were deliberately staged in both Guwahati and Delhi to destabilize Assam’s social fabric. Sharma stressed that these developments were not accidental but were executed as part of a sequential, premeditated design that originated from the July 23 dinner. The State BJP maintained that despite these “conspiratorial maneuvers,” the people of Assam, guided by political awareness and resilience, had rejected Congress’s agenda of division and appeasement. Concluding his remarks, Sharma asserted that both Arsad Madani and Lurinjyoti Gogoi had become mere pawns in the Congress’s “chess game of political polarisation.”
