‘Baseless’: Journalist Abhisar Sharma on FIR against him for accusing Assam CM of communal politics

Journalist and YouTuber Abhisar Sharma on Thursday described as “completely baseless” the first information report against him for accusing Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of engaging in communal politics.

“It will be responded to legally,” Sharma said in a social media post. “I had…highlighted Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s communal politics with facts – based on his own statements.”

The FIR filed against me by @assampolice is completely baseless. It will be responded to legally! In my show, I had mentioned the statement of an Assam judge, where he referred to the Assam government giving 3,000 bighas of land to Mahabal Cement and had criticized it. I had also…

— Abhisar Sharma (@abhisar_sharma) August 21, 2025

Sharma was booked earlier in the day under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to acts endangering national unity and sovereignty, promoting enmity between groups and making assertions prejudicial to national integration.

The case was filed based on a complaint by Alok Baruah, a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad is the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Baruah alleged that Sharma ridiculed and denigrated the Union government and the Assam government, and thus endangered national sovereignty. He claimed that the journalist “ridiculed the principle...

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