Hyderabad, Feb. 8 -- The Assam Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come under heavy criticism for posting a video on X that showed Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma taking aim with a rifle and firing a shot at two people - one wearing a skull cap and the other with a beard - with "point-blank shot" as the caption. It's been deleted since, but the video is a blatant call to violence against Muslims, whom the CM has again and again referred to as "Bangladeshis," taking their agency as citizens away.

The minorities have become immune to hate, especially from those associated with the right-wing party and its affiliate groups, who are more right-wing than the other. This particular incident shouldn't affect much, except that it does.

Sarma is...