Assam Govt Orders Probe Amid Controversy Over Bangladesh Anthem At Congress Event

The Assam government has instructed the authorities concerned to probe into alleged singing of Bangladesh’s national anthem at a meeting of Congress Seva Dal in Sribhumi district, officials said on Wednesday (October 29, 2025).

A senior official of the district administration said they have “received oral instructions from Fishery Minister Krishnendu Paul to enquire into the matter and are looking into the issue now”.

During the Congress Seva Dal meeting on Tuesday (October 28) at the Indira Bhavan, the party’s district office in Sribhumi town, its leaders began the proceedings after singing two lines of the Bangladeshi national anthem ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’, written by Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, who also wrote Indian’s national anthem.