A political party associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party during the election campaign in Assam unfolded a communal act where the party portrayed a Muslim family’s house demolition, and the audience of the play cheered at the act.
The performance came to light after the video of it made rounds on the internet on Tuesday, earlier this week.
In the video it can be seen that a cardboard-made bulldozer, moved forward with the help of the participant, was demonstrated demolishing a house shed ostensibly belonging to a Muslim family. In the play children, women, and men with skullcaps and dhotis are portrayed, which clearly indicates that they belong to Muslim families. Meanwhile, the “authorities” evicted them.
\The act as divided into various scenes also shows in one of them that a person playing the role of female police constable lashes out at the Muslim men with lathis when they try to desist the bulldozer from razing down their house.
The other scene shows that an officer supervises the demolition as other officers restrict the family, including children. The scenes that garnered laughter from the audience were where a Muslim family was being beaten to languish in the atrocities.
The party secured victory over 102 seats in the 126-member assembly during the 2026 state election, which was heavily influenced by delimitation among other key factors behind the victory.
It is also imperative to note that Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had, with great frequency, said that in the 2026 assembly polls, the BJP appeared to gain a strategic advantage from the recent delimitation exercise, which redrew electoral boundaries and introduced new constituencies. This restructuring significantly altered the political landscape, particularly by breaking up previously concentrated Muslim-majority areas. These segments were absorbed into regions with a stronger presence of indigenous communities, effectively weakening the cohesion and electoral influence of what had once been a consolidated voter base.
