Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma dogwhistles about land jihad and love jihad, and declared that he will bring laws against them at the State Executive meeting of BJP in Guwahati.
“One by one, people from a ‘particular community’ snatched land from the indigenous people and made us a minority in our own land. The state government has decided that we will bring in a law restricting the sale of land to people from that ‘particular community’ in the erstwhile Goalpara district,” he said.
He further said that they have freed land equivalent to Chandigarh from the ‘particular community’, but even now, the ‘particular community’ has occupied land equivalent to 20 Chandigarh. He also says that Assam Government has decided that a Muslim cannot buy land from a Hindu or a Hindu cannot buy land from a Muslim without Chief Minister’s consent. “We spoke of love jihad during elections. Within a few days, we will bring a new law making offence under love jihad punishable by lifetime imprisonment.”