GUWAHATI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested seven persons from Assam’s Goalpara in connection with a terror financing case involving the Jaish-e-Mohammad. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the arrests made in Assam proved yet again that the challenge the state is facing from Islamic fundamentalist elements is real. He said during every nationwide raid by the NIA, someone or the other from Assam would be among people arrested by the agency.“Fundamentalist forces are active in Assam and we have to be wary of them. There have been some incidents which indicate that a mentality of extreme Islamic fundamentalism is building up here and there in Assam,” Sarma said. “The indigenous people of the state will be forced to live in deep uncertainty after 10 to 15 years from now,” he added.
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