Guwahati: Congress Legislature party leader and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday ridiculed senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley’s comment that the BJP is on a strong wicket in the ensuing Assembly polls in Assam and termed it as the saffron party’s day dreaming.
He said the people of Assam will never endorse the party’s ‘divisive’ politics as the state is attuned to the philosophy of Shankardeva and Ajan Fakir for social harmony.
In a statement here, Gogoi said, “BJP and its ideologue RSS’s philosophy which patronise division is alien to the people of Assam and they have outrightly rejected it. Patronising such a divisive politics in the State and an indifferent treatment meted out to the people of Assam will never enable the BJP to make an inroad in State politics.”
Taking a dig at the BJP, Gogoi said though the people of Assam posed their faith in the BJP in the last Lok Sabha elections, the party is proved to be a total disaster and poured cold water on the hopes of the people of the state.
Citing a series of ‘injustice’ done to the people of Assam, Gogoi said the BJP led Central Government after coming to power withdrew the Special Category Status granted to the region way back in 1969.
Moreover, the Centre had also suspended the North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy thereby putting a spanner on industrialisation in the State.
The new dispensation at the Centre has also changed the funding pattern and put a tab on the social security schemes like MGNREGA, IAY and Anganwadi Centres.
Upping his ante against the Centre, Gogoi said Modi Government’s ‘anti-Assam’ policy was visible in the Union Budget also which granted Rs 17,400.88 crore under fourteenth finance commission’s allocation of Rs. 9,180.03 crore thereby depriving Assam of its rightful claim of Rs. 1779.15 crore.
Moreover, the Centre’s anti-Assam policy caused the State to lose Rs. 10,000 crore as oil royalty, he added.
In view of the above, expecting the people of Assam reposing faith in the BJP must be a day dreaming on the part of the party, Gogoi said. (UNI)
