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GUWAHATI, India: Ranjiv Kumar Sharma says his home state of Assam in India’s isolated **rtheast is experiencing a "silent invasion" of Muslims from neighbouring Bangladesh that only Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party can stop.
For years Sharma has been working with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a hardline Hindu group, to pave the way for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) to take power in the tribal-dominated region, where it won its first state election last month. Analysts say the victory in Assam, an ethnically diverse state with a large Muslim mi**rity where the BJP’s brand of religious nationalism had previously held little sway, is a sign that the party is becoming a truly national force. It has done so by adapting its Hindu nationalist message to local concerns -- in Assam, a perceived influx of Muslim migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign promised to tackle. Impoverished Assam has a history of violent conflict between indige**us tribes and settlers, and although many have been there for generations, fears persist that they could threaten the region’s distinctive culture. But long before campaigning began, the RSS had been quietly preparing the ground, setting up hundreds of schools and medical facilities in poor communities -- whatever their religion. أكثر... ??????? ??????: India?s ruling party courts isolated **rtheast || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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