Overview

• On June 17, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma accused Rahul Gandhi and the Congress of shielding those behind recent incidents of throwing meat pieces at temples during Eid.
• Police have arrested 50 suspects in Dhubri and five in Goalpara in connection with the temple meat attacks following alleged illegal cattle slaughter on June 8.
• A shoot-at-sight order remains in effect in Dhubri as part of stringent measures to deter further communal unrest.
• State Congress president Gaurav Gogoi has claimed the RSS is extending its reach into every Assam village to stoke communal divisions before the 2026 assembly polls.
• Sarma described the perpetrators as “misguided youths” and criticised suggestions that Hindus could slaughter cows to target their own places of worship.