Guwahati: Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed gets arrested on Saturday for making controversial remarks. He made provocative comments against the martyrs of Assam Agitation.
Therefore, an FIR was lodged against the MLA. Ahmed has been arrested now, even after he rectified and apologized for his comment.
A senior police officer stated that Ahmed allegedly made remarks to the recent eviction drive in Darrang district. As a result, Ahmed was held from MLA quarters in Dispur and taken to Panbazar police station for questioning.
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"We have detained him for interrogation. Any decision on his arrest will be taken in due course of time," an officer stated.
Several organizations, including the All Assam Students Union (AASU) and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), have registered charges against the legislator for his remarks.
On Friday, the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee slapped a show-cause notice on the MLA Ahmed for his "communally provocative" remarks ahead of the bypolls in the state and asked for an answer from him in three days.
Ahmed reportedly made the "communal" comments while responding to statements by some leaders of the BJP-led ruling alliance that the alleged encroachers in the Sipajhar area of Darrang district "had killed" eight people in 1983 throughout the six-year-long Assam agitation.
The legislator alleged that the eight people who died in the agitation were "not martyrs, but killers," as they killed others from the minority community of the Sipajhar area, where Gorukhuti is located.
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Strengthening the killings, he reportedly stated that "the attack" on the eight people was an act of "self defence" by the Muslim population of that region.
The state Congress unit, in its report, stated, "As a lawmaker, your communally provocative comments in media, gnawing at old wounds of the past incidents of Assam Agitation when people of Assam across communities had suffered, is insensitive and uncalled for."
"APCC sees your observations as politically driven with intention to create harm to the Congress party just ahead of the bye-elections," it continued.
Last month, an eviction drive in Darrang moved off peacefully on the first day/. However, the locals conducted amid stiff opposition, leaving two dead in police firing, including a 12-year-old boy.
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