How far is taking something too far during election campaigning? With each social media post, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Assam unit hits a new low.

Over the past several weeks, Assam BJP has incessantly shared posts on X targeting Muslims. So much so that on October 7, the Supreme Court issued a notice to BJP Assam Pradesh (@BJP4Assam) and social media platform X to respond to pleas seeking the removal of a post that vilified Muslims in the state. The public interest litigation was filed by former Patna high court judge Anjana Prakash and journalist Qurban Ali and sought the removal of a September 15 post by the party unit, which the applicants believed was provocative and went against the secular fabric of the nation.

On September 18, Congress’s Assam unit also filed a complaint again

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