Guwahati: “It is the Congress that has utmost respect for the plural society in the Northeast and will do everything to preserve the diversity of people here in tune with the Congress’ ideals and traditions.
The BJP and the RSS are out to impose their ways on the people of the region,” Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said addressing a rally at historic Sivasagar town in poll-bound Assam on Tuesday.
Rahul termed the Prime Minister Narendra Modi the executor of the RSS blueprint aimed at establishing a uniform society ignoring the vast diversity of people in the country.
The Congress vice-president who undertook a mass contact ‘pada yatra’ at historic Sivasagar town in eastern Assam said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being remote controlled from Nagpur (the headquarter of the RSS) and he wants to impose on you, the people what he is being told to. His only objective is to help the handful of industrialists who are with him.”
“Unlike he used to do before the last Lok Sabha election, Modi no longer promises to arrest escalating prices even though the prices of pulses (dal) have touched Rs 200 a kg. He no longer promises to deposit Rs 15 lakh in the bank account of common Indian from the black money his government was supposed to recover,” Rahul said.
He accused the Prime Minister of not taking the Opposition and the state governments into confidence and consultation while governing the country and cited the example of Naga Accord he had signed with Naga rebel group NSCN-IM without taking views of the concerned chief ministers of Northeastern states of Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh and even the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
In an attempt to regain the traditional ground in eastern Assam districts lost to the BJP in the last Lok Sabha election, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi undertook a six kilometer-long march in the historic Sivasagar town to woo people in the company of senior Congress ministers, leaders and MPs in Assam including Tarun Gogoi and his son Gaurav Gogoi.
Accusing the BJP and RSS of trying to divide plural but harmonious society in Assam to gain power in the coming Assembly election, Rahul said that Congress which has restored peace and facilitated development in the state during the last 15 years, follows its age-old the tradition of respecting and preserving culture and tradition of all sections of the people to promote harmony and brotherhood in the society.
Rahul Gandhi undertook a whirlwind tour of eastern and northern Assam during the last couple of days in an apparent attempt to regain the ground the party had lost in its traditional bastion to the BJP during the last Lok Sabha election.
