Talking to media persons in New Delhi, Sarma said that Central leadership will take decision about Sonowal. The former chief minister will be given new responsibility taking into consideration his past experience in Centre and the state. “However I am not aware about what will be the new role.”
More than 400 people had fled violence in Cooch Behar district after the May 2 Assembly election results and are staying in makeshift camps in Assam’s border district Dhubri.
When the people, including women, from West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district crossed over to Dhubri over a period of three days, the Assam administration had sheltered them in two makeshift camps.
The 2021 assembly election shows that Assamese nationalism and the BJP and RSS Hindutva have coalesced, with Bengali-origin Muslims, or Miya, as the Other.