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Himanta Biswa Sarma said that a singer has been arrested for trying to popularise ‘Miya Bihu’. He said that no Assamese person would tolerate any attempt to make their traditional Bihu songs ‘too different’. The post said, “Some people are trying to popularise ‘Miya Bihu’.
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said a singer has been arrested for trying to popularise ‘Miya Bihu’. He said no Assamese person would tolerate any attempt to make their traditional Bihu songs ‘too different’. “Some people are trying to popularise ‘Miya Bihu’. One such singer, Altaf Hussain, has been arrested by the police today,” Sarma said in a Facebook post late Saturday night. In a 2.27-minute video clip shared by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), Sarma asserted that as long as the Assamese society survives, it will do so with respect.
He said, “We will not tolerate any attack on our social system. And there should not be any such attempts to attack us.” The Chief Minister said that no Assamese person would accept any attempt to present the culture, heritage, food, songs, dance forms in a “very different way”. He said, “If our Gaurav Bihu songs are changed to ‘Miya Bihu’, which Assamese will accept it?” Miya is basically an offensive term used for Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam and non-Bengali speaking people generally consider them Bangladeshi migrants.
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