{"id":169612,"date":"2025-02-22T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169612"},"modified":"2025-02-22T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:28:30","slug":"muslim-congress-mp-raqeebul-husain-assaulted-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/22\/muslim-congress-mp-raqeebul-husain-assaulted-in-assam.html","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Congress MP Raqeebul Husain assaulted in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169613\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/download-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Guwahati: Congress Member of Parliament Raqeebul Husain, along with his personal security officer (PSO), was attacked by a group of masked assailants in the BJP-ruled Assam state.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the incident took place in Nagaon district when MP Husain was en route to attend a party meeting. The attackers, who were armed with cricket bats, left MP Raqeebul Husain and his PSO injured.<\/p>\n<p>The attack has raised serious concerns about the safety of political figures in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) President Bhupen Bora condemned the attack, calling it a direct failure of the Chief Minister and the state\u2019s law enforcement. &#8220;If the police fail to take action against the attackers, we will be forced to accept that Assam is under a jungle raj,&#8221; Bora declared. He further stated that the ruling BJP is using the police as a political weapon and that the state government has failed to take action in previous incidents of violence against Congress leaders and workers.<\/p>\n<p>Bora demanded the immediate arrest of those responsible for the attack on Husain, reiterating the need for stronger protection for the MP. &#8220;We cannot allow the continued targeting of Congress leaders without consequence,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Raqeebul Husain is a prominent political figure in Assam, having served as a five-time MLA before winning the Dhubri Lok Sabha seat last year by an overwhelming margin of over 10 lakh votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati: Congress Member of Parliament Raqeebul Husain, along with his personal security officer (PSO), was attacked by a group of masked assailants in the BJP-ruled Assam state. According to Kashmir Media Service, the incident took place in Nagaon district when MP Husain was en route to attend a party meeting. The attackers, who were armed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/download-6-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169614,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169612\/revisions\/169614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}