Himanta's Politics of Fear

Assam has real anxieties—migration, land, identity, resources. But instead of policy, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is offering something else: fear, labels, and a permanent enemy called “Miya”. From eviction drives framed as administration to beef crackdowns sold as order, this is governance by spectacle. In this episode of First Things Fast, Manish Adhikary asks whether polarisation is replacing policy in the state’s governance.