Guwahati: Getting ready to fight the next Assembly election in Assam in 2016 on the “U-turns’ made by the BJP government in the Centre on state issues, ruling Congress is has brought out a handbook for
its party workers high-lighting ‘failures’ of Naren-dra Modi government to fulfil promises made to people of Assam before the last Lok Sabha polls.
Unveiling the hand-book, which will be distri-buted through the 24,280 booth committees of the party, Assam CM Tarun Gogoi said, “It is a docu-ment of the failure of the Narendra Modi govern-ment. The promised ‘acchee din’ has not materialised.”
Alleging that the Modi government has failed to keep its pre-poll promises to the people of Assam, Gogoi cited that BJP government’s made a U-turn and support to the land swap deal with Bangladesh after coming to power after Lok Sabha polls. He also pointed and Lower Subansiri Hydel Power Project after coming to power was such instances.
He also criticized Modi of failing to keep his promise that Assam will be free of all ‘illegal foreigners’ from May 17 last year, if the BJP came to power.
“The BJP government has not only not done anything for the state, they have also cut allocation under Central schemes for the state, suspended the North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Poli-cy and stopped fresh recrui-tment to government jobs, among others,” Gogoi said.
Assam Pradesh Cong-ress Committee (APCC) president Anjan Dutta, accusing the Modi govern-ment of doing a U-turn on all issues, said, “There is no Modi wave blowing any longer. The socalled Modi-tsunami is leaving a trail of destruction like all tsuna-mis.” He said the handbook was an attempt of the Con-gress to make the people aware how their trust on the BJP and its promise of deliver has been betrayed.
The Congress will be seeking people’s mandate for the fourth consecutive term in power in Assam in the next Assembly elections, apparently an uphill task for the party as on date given the drubbing at received in the last Lok Sabha elections in the state at the hands of the BJP and the AIUDF.
