Sarma’s Anti-Muslim Bill: Assam’s ‘Love Jihad’ & Polygamy Laws Criticized as an Unconstitutional Weapon Against Muslims

India’s carefully kept image of a secular democracy is being torn apart by the ruling BJP. Under the Modi government, the state is being used to follow a communal agenda aimed at pushing the nation’s large Muslim minority to the edges. The latest example comes from Assam, where the BJP government, led by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, has proposed laws to make polygamy and the fake idea of “love jihad” a crime. This is not social reform; it is a calculated political attack made to persecute Muslims.

A New Attack Hidden as ‘Reform’

The Assam government has announced laws that threaten severe punishment for personal religious practices. Chief Minister Sarma, known for his hateful speech against Muslims, has declared that anyone marrying a second time without a legal divorce will face up to seven years in prison. This move is being wrongly presented as a positive step, but the true target is clear.

🔵 A Seven-Year Prison Threat: This threat is not a neutral legal reform; it is a direct attack on the Muslim community and an attempt to interfere with their personal laws.

🔵 The Lie of Progressive Politics: The BJP’s claim that this will help society is a thin cover. Muslim leaders and rights groups have rightly condemned it as a politically motivated attack.

A Selfish Ploy to Divide Voters

The timing of this new law is very doubtful and shows its true purpose. With state elections coming up, the BJP government is falling back on its old strategy of creating a religious crisis to divide the voters. By inventing a problem, the party tries to get its supporters excited and distract from its failures.

🔵 Creating Prejudice for Electoral Gain: This is a clear attempt to create prejudice against Muslims to secure votes, painting them as a social threat that must be controlled by the state.

🔵 Targeting a Problem That Does Not Exist: An advocate at the Guwahati High Court exposed this act, stating, “Polygamy among Muslims in Assam is nearly extinct,” proving the law is about dividing voters, not reform.

A Clear Violation of Constitutional Rights

This proposed law is not just wrong; it is a direct and bold attack on the Indian Constitution. Legal experts point out that the Assam government is knowingly crushing basic rights given to all citizens. The move is an open interference in Muslim Personal Law, which is protected under the constitution.

🔵 Attacking Freedom of Religion: Advocate Nilofar Rahman warned that this law clearly violates Article 25 of the Indian Constitution, which guarantees all citizens the freedom to practice their religion.

🔵 Interference in Muslim Personal Law: The bill is a direct violation of protections for religious communities to follow their own personal laws. It is a hostile takeover of religious freedom.

The Obvious Double Standards of a Selective Law

The communal goal behind this law is exposed by its obvious double standards. The Sarma government is focusing its power to punish only on Muslims while conveniently ignoring the same practices in other communities. This selective use of the law is the very definition of discrimination.

🔵 Ignoring Practices in Other Communities: A political analyst noted that the government knowingly ignores polygamy still practised among several tribal and Hindu communities in Assam.

🔵 Exposing the Communal Agenda: This selective anger confirms the law is not about equality but is a tool to target a specific faith, as the analyst concluded, “By focusing only on Muslims, it exposes its communal agenda.”

Creating a Story Against Factual Data

The entire reason for this legal attack is built on lies. The BJP’s story, which paints Muslims as a population threat, is completely disagreed with by official government data.

🔵 Data Disagrees with the Government’s Claims: Official data provides the most damaging proof against the BJP’s story. Statistics show that polygamy is actually lower among Muslims than it is among Hindus or other groups.

🔵 The Lie of the ‘Muslim Problem’: The BJP’s entire political project relies on inventing a ‘Muslim problem’ to pull together its Hindu vote bank. The data proves this is a complete lie.

A Deliberate Distraction from Governance Failures

This sudden focus on Muslim marriage is a classic distraction. The BJP government in Assam is failing on every important measure of governance. The state is suffering from widespread unemployment and deep poverty. Unable to provide jobs, the Sarma government is using religious hate to distract the public from its total failure.

A Broader Pattern of Harming Muslims

This proposed law is not a single event. It is merely the latest weapon in a long and planned campaign of harm against Muslims in Assam, led personally by Himanta Biswa Sarma. This campaign has moved from raw physical force to using the law itself as a tool of oppression.

🔵 From Evictions to Legal Attacks: Rights groups have correctly identified this as part of a clear pattern of anti-Muslim measures, including the brutal eviction of Muslim families and the targeted tearing down of madrasas.

🔵 Making Harm Legal: This law is the next logical step in this hateful campaign. The Sarma government is now moving to formally write its bigotry into law.

The Weaponization of Law in Modi’s India

The events in Assam are a scary preview of the future of India under the BJP. This is not reform; it is the use of law as a weapon to weaken, push aside, and make criminals of an entire community.

🔵 A Tool for Pushing Aside: As Advocate Nilofar Rahman rightly warned, “This is not reform — it’s a weaponisation of law to marginalise an entire community.”

🔵 The Decay of Secular India: This selfish move by the Assam government, met with silence from New Delhi, signals the alarming rot of Indian democracy and its fall into a hateful, majority-rule state.