Congress Accuses Himanta Biswa Sarma Of Corruption Eroding Assam’s Identity And Democracy

Congress national spokesperson Pawan Khera accused Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of presiding over unprecedented corruption that is systematically eroding the state’s cultural and political identity. Declaring that Assam’s once-celebrated image of tea gardens, harmony, and cultural icons like Zubeen Garg has been replaced by associations with drugs, cattle smuggling, and institutionalised graft, Khera warned that the state stands at a dangerous crossroads.

The Congress leader alleged that the Sarma administration has deliberately ignored the decades-old grievances of tea garden workers while allowing tribal land to be diverted to corporate conglomerates, including the Adani and Ambani groups. He demanded complete public disclosure of the wealth accumulated by the Chief Minister’s family over the past five to seven years, describing the sudden enrichment as evidence of deep-rooted corruption enabled by political patronage.

Khera claimed that large-scale infiltration of non-resident voters is being orchestrated ahead of the next Assembly election, with entire bus and train loads allegedly being mobilised to manipulate the electoral outcome. Terming it a direct assault on indigenous Assamese identity, he cautioned citizens that failure to resist this demographic engineering would permanently alter the state’s political character and render the Assamese people politically powerless in their own land.

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Sharpening the attack on Sarma’s personal record, Khera questioned how multiple Enforcement Directorate and CBI cases pending against the Chief Minister when he was a Congress minister “magically disappeared” immediately after he defected to the BJP in 2015. Branding it the classic functioning of the BJP’s “washing machine,” he alleged that Sarma now depends entirely on police protection and Election Commission favouritism to move freely in the state.

Presenting Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi as the face of generational renewal, Khera invoked the development-focused tenure of former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi as a stark contrast to the present regime. Urging voters to act decisively before it is too late, the Congress warned that continued silence would allow the complete hollowing out of Assam’s democratic institutions and its unique cultural legacy under the current dispensation.

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