BJP slams Congress over remarks on 48 minority-dominated assembly seats in Assam

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on December 23, launched a sharp attack on the Congress following remarks by its spokesperson Mohsin Khan, who allegedly suggested that 48 Assembly constituencies in Assam should be reserved for minority-dominated areas.
Reacting to the statement, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on December 24, questioned the intent behind such a demand, asking whether Congress was seeking to “expel” indigenous communities from these constituencies. Sarma also referred to a recent interview in which Mohsin Khan reportedly spoke about population patterns and the need for 48 seats to be earmarked for minorities.
In a strongly worded post on X, the BJP accused the Congress of promoting divisive and anti-democratic politics. The party alleged that Mohsin Khan’s remarks, demanding 48 Assembly seats for minority Muslims and warning that “outsiders” would not be allowed to contest elections in minority-dominated areas—were reckless and dangerous.
“This is the real Congress mindset finally spilling out in public,” the BJP said, alleging that for decades the Congress had reduced minorities to a captive vote bank while encouraging demographic imbalance, appeasement politics, and maintaining silence on illegal infiltration.

The BJP claimed that several constituencies in Assam were slipping out of the hands of indigenous communities not through democratic consensus or development, but due to what it termed “engineered demographic aggression.”
“What Mohsin Khan has openly articulated is nothing short of a blueprint to ghettoise democracy, where elections are decided by religious arithmetic rather than merit or citizenship,” the party said, calling the remarks “electoral apartheid.”
The BJP further accused Congress of questioning the constitutional right of Indian citizens to contest elections by talking about barring “outsiders,” while allegedly remaining silent on illegal infiltrators who, it claimed, had altered Assam’s demography over decades under Congress rule.
“If indigenous people are being pushed to the margins in their own land, Congress is responsible. If Assam’s democratic balance is under threat, Congress’s appeasement politics is the reason,” the BJP said.
The party maintained that the issue was not about minorities versus majorities, but about citizenship, the rule of law, and protecting Assam’s democratic and social fabric.