'Mian Muslims are responsible for expensive vegetables' - Now the Radical Hindu Chief Minister of Assam is blaming Muslims for vegetable inflation

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said - 'Mian Muslims are responsible for expensive vegetables'​

Dilip Kumar Sharma
From Guwahati, for BBC Hindi

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has blamed "Mian Muslim" traders for the increase in the prices of vegetables in the state, especially in Guwahati.
When asked by reporters about the skyrocketing prices of vegetables, the Chief Minister said, "Who are the people who have increased the prices of vegetables so much this time. Miyan is a businessman who is selling vegetables at a higher price."
In Assam, the word 'Mian' is often used for Muslims of Bengali origin. Here a large population of Muslims of Bengali origin do business of vegetables and fish.
Earlier, All India United Democratic Front President and Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal had said that Assam is incomplete without the 'Mian' community.
On this statement of Ajmal, Chief Minister Sarma said that Ajmal has factually insulted the Assamese community by making such remarks.
The Chief Minister said, "Mian traders are charging higher prices for vegetables from Assamese people in Guwahati, while the price of vegetables in the village is less. If Assamese traders were selling vegetables today, they would never have charged more from their Assamese people."
The Chief Minister called upon the youth of Assam to come forward and actively participate in these works.
He assured that he would personally get the market place under the flyover vacated, so that the Assamese boys could get employment opportunities. At present, most of the people selling vegetables and fruits under the flyovers of Guwahati are Muslims from the Mian community.
The Chief Minister said, "We all have seen how the movement of buses in Guwahati city reduces during Eid. The crowd is less visible. Because most of the bus and cab drivers are from Miyan community."
However, the Assam unit of the Congress has criticized the Assam government for increasing the prices of vegetables in the state.
State Congress has asked the government to take effective steps to reduce the prices of vegetables.
Congress leader Gaurav Somani says that realizing the seriousness of the situation, the government should take immediate action to provide relief to the affected population.

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