The NDA returned to power in Assam with a dominant mandate as Himanta Biswa Sarma began his second term in a ceremony attended by PM Modi and top BJP leaders.
Assam is set to hold Assembly elections later this year, where BJP is looking to defend its power against the Congress.
A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant and also comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi asked the petitioners to move to the Gauhati High Court.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Congress for neglecting the Northeast during its rule, and said that the BJP-led NDA government considers the region as "Ashtalakshmi".
The Assam BJP unit shared a screenshot of the now-deleted Congress post, warning that deleting the post would not “nullify” what the opposition was “trying to imply”. “Deleting the post doesn’t nullify what you are trying to imply, @INCAssam. You’re exposed,” the BJP said in a post on social media.
In his resignation letter addressed to Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia, Gohain announced that he was stepping down from the party’s primary membership and relinquishing all organizational responsibilities with immediate effect.
A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta issued notices to both parties after hearing on an application urging the Court to direct an immediate take-down of the video to curb the spread of communal propaganda and potential unrest.
The AIMIM president described the content of the video as genocidal.
State BJP president Dilip Saikia said the panel was formed with the approval of national party president J.P. Nadda.
Ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections in Assam, Drishti Rajkhowa, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Guwahati.
