Assam
Assam Congress MLA detained by police for communal remarks over Dholpur eviction drive
Guwahati/IBNS: Police on Saturday have detained Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed for his provocative and communal remarks on the martyrs of the Assam movement.
A team from the Dispur police station reached the official residence of the MLA in the capital of Assam and detained him.
Multiple FIRs were registered against Sherman Ali Ahmed in different police stations in the state and different organizations demanded the arrest of the Congress MLA.
Recently, reacting to the recent eviction drive carried out by the Darrang district administration in the Dholpur area, Sherman Ali Ahmed said the eight people killed by suspected Bangladeshi immigrants there in 1983 during Assam agitation, were not martyrs, but Ghatak (killers).
“They (eight people including a brother of a former minister) had killed several people during that time in the name of the movement (Assam movement). Villagers were scared of them and killed them to defend themselves,” Sherman Ali Ahmed said.
On October 1, the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) had served a show-cause notice to Sherman Ali Ahmed over his communal remarks.
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