Nagaland Congress condemns discriminatory assault on minorities in Assam

DIMAPUR — The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has strongly condemned what it viewed as a discriminatory assault on minority communities by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Assam.

In a press release issued on Wednesday, the NPCC claimed that ‘the Assam Police’s survey targeting the Catholic Church and calling for removal of religious symbols and statues from missionary schools by the Hindutva organisation Kutumba Suraksha Parishad is ample indications of “malicious intent”.’

“The seemingly unrelated, but well planned and concerted attack” on the Christian community in Assam by state and non state actors is beyond alarming and deserves utmost condemnation from one and all,” it said.

Further, the NPCC claimed that the subsequent passage of the Assam Healing Practices Bill 2024, by the Assam government, “is a clear giveaway of the identity of the chief orchestrator behind the communally bigoted exercise.”

“The BJP’s central ideology of exclusionary majoritarianism and the fact that they are incapable of winning any election without causing and stoking communal enmity is on naked display once again,” it stated.

The alarming situation unfolding in Assam is even more tragic considering that it comes close on the heels of the recent violent incidents in Manipur, authored by the same party, the Congress alleged.

Condemning the “discriminatory assault”, the NPCC urged the Assam government to take urgent corrective action to win back the confidence of members of wronged minority communities and uphold age-old traditions of communal harmony and peaceful coexistence in the region.