Trigger Happy in a Digital Age: Was The AI Gun in Assam’s Hand Loaded by Himanta Biswa?

2026-02-12 - 12:16

Imagine waking up, grabbing your phone, and seeing the leader of your state... loading a gun. Not at a shooting range, not for sport, but in a digitally constructed battlefield where the enemies look exactly like people you see at the market every day. It sounds insane, right? Like something out of a dark futuristic thriller? But that’s exactly what the BJP’s Assam timeline served up on February 7, 2026. They dropped a 17-second clip called ‘Point Blank Shot’ that was so blatant, it’s hard to believe it was real. They took actual footage of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and used AI to show him firing at men with beards and skull caps. The message was loud and clear. With flashing text screaming ‘No Mercy’ and ‘Foreigner Free Assam,’ this wasn’t political discourse anymore. It was a digital daydream of erasing an entire community. The video, which amassed thousands of views before being scrubbed from the internet, sparked immediate and justifiable panic. Critics and human rights groups rightly labeled it a “call to genocide.” In a state with over 12 million Muslim residents—a third of the population—this wasn’t about catching undocumented migrants; it was about painting an entire community with a target on their backs. But here comes the part that insults our intelligence even more than the video insulted our humanity. The inevitable cleanup operation has begun. The party has expelled its social media co-convenor, Ron Vikash Gaurav, throwing him under the bus as the rogue operator behind