Assam Governor Sets Five-Year Plan That Prioritises UCC, Border Fencing and Counter-Radicalisation

The package signals a drive to tighten border and demographic controls and to legislate a Uniform Civil Code with safeguards, setting up likely legal and political fights in the assembly

Overview

On Friday the governor presented the new BJP-led government’s five-year vision in the first address to the 16th Assam Assembly, laying out the administration’s top priorities for the coming term.
The speech pledged to introduce a Uniform Civil Code bill in the current session and said it would be framed to protect tribal and customary rights while promoting social harmony.
Officials announced security measures that include a dedicated Counter-Radicalisation Cell, stepped-up enforcement of the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950, and coordinated fencing of uncovered India–Bangladesh border stretches with West Bengal.
The governor set economic targets such as becoming a Rs 10 lakh crore economy by 2028–29, sustaining high GSDP growth, doubling per capita income gains, increased capital expenditure and a pledge to create two lakh jobs.
Opposition Congress and Raijor Dal MLAs walked out of the address to protest the focus on these measures over immediate issues like inflation, a split that foreshadows legislative clashes, legal challenges and possible street protests as the policies move to implementation.