Assam CM warns Bangladesh: Northeast isolation threats won’t be tolerated
Assam CM warns Bangladesh: Northeast isolation threats won’t be tolerated
Assam's chief minister vows not to stay silent as Bangladeshi calls to isolate the Northeast surface, urging calm yet firm action against threats.
In Guwahati, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma warned that New Delhi would not remain silent if Bangladeshi leaders continue to threaten to cut off India’s northeast from the mainland. He described the calls to merge or isolate the region as a reflection of a 'bad mindset' in Bangladesh, insisting that India, a major nuclear nation and the world’s fourth-largest economy, will respond to such provocations. The CM stressed that Bangladesh should not imagine altering the sovereignty of India and urged patience to be tempered with vigilance.
The reaction came after Hasnat Abdullah, a leader of Bangladesh’s National Citizen Party, threatened that if India continues to shelter those who oppose Bangladesh, they would shelter Indian separatists and cut off the northeast. Abdullah also accused India of backing opponents of the current Bangladesh regime. Earlier this year, the interim government’s Chief Adviser Mohammed Yunus claimed the eastern Indian seven states are land-locked and cautioned that Bangladesh would guard the ocean for itself.
Sarma pointed to the so-called 'chicken’s neck'—a narrow corridor through West Bengal’s Siliguri connecting the northeast to the rest of India—and urged Dhaka to focus on those vulnerabilities before issuing threats. The Assam CM emphasized that India would not tolerate such rhetoric and that sovereignty and regional stability must be preserved through firm but measured action.
