Guwahati, July 19 -- A war of words has erupted between Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee over the issue of linguistic and religious identity politics in the Northeast.
Reacting sharply to Banerjee's criticism of the BJP's alleged divisive agenda in Assam, Sarma launched a scathing counterattack, accusing her of endangering Bengal's future by playing vote-bank politics.
In a strongly worded post on microblogging site X, Sarma said, "Didi, let me remind you-unlike you, we are not fighting our own people. We are fearlessly resisting the ongoing, unchecked Muslim infiltration from across the border, which has already caused an alarming demographic shift."
He claimed that illegal infiltr...