Amit Shah guarantees UCC in Assam, targets infiltrators forward of polls

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Amit Shah guarantees UCC in Assam, targets infiltrators forward of polls

2 min learnGuwahatiUp to date: Mar 29, 2026 09:35 PM IST

Campaigning for the BJP forward of the upcoming Meeting election, Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah on Sunday stated a Uniform Civil Code could be launched in Assam if the BJP involves energy for a 3rd time period within the state.

Shah was addressing a rally at Tihu in Nalbari district as campaigning heated up within the state with lower than two weeks to go for the April 9 election.

“Within the coming days, we’ll convey the UCC in Assam and ban 4 marriages,” he stated on the rally.

Main the BJP-led authorities in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has on a number of events declared that Assam could be the “third state within the nation to implement the UCC after Uttarakhand and Gujarat”. Final 12 months, the federal government tabled and handed a regulation to ban polygamy, entailing a penal provision of seven years’ imprisonment, which isn’t relevant to the state’s Scheduled Tribe communities and within the tribal districts underneath the Sixth Schedule of the Structure.

Over a number of visits to Assam in the previous few months, Shah has repeated his pointed assault on alleged “ghuspethiya (infiltrators)” within the state. On Sunday, he stated, “In 11 days, there may be going to be election in Assam. You’ll press the button of the lotus, proper? You’ll absolutely must press the lotus button, however press it with such anger that every infiltrator leaves Assam and goes again.”

“The Congress authorities had, for years, opened the doorways of Assam for infiltrators. Our Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, closed Assam’s borders for infiltrators. 1,25,000 bighas of land, which had been occupied by infiltrators, have been taken again… Within the subsequent 5 years, every infiltrator shall be recognized one after the other and despatched again to the place they got here from,” the Union Dwelling Minister stated.

Sukrita Baruah

Sukrita Baruah is a Principal Correspondent for The Indian Categorical, primarily based in Guwahati. From this strategic hub, she offers complete, ground-level protection of India’s North East, a area characterised by its advanced ethnic range, geopolitical significance, and distinctive developmental challenges.

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