Agartala: The Congress is determined to protect the customs, culture, traditional lifestyle, language besides the distinct identity of various ethnic groups and indigenous people in the northeast region as the BJP has evil designs to destroy them, AICC General Secretary Luizinho Faleiro said on Friday.
Faleiro, who came to Tripura 25 days after state party President Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman resigned from the post and quit the party, held a series of meetings with senior party leaders and different wings to choose a new state party chief and to further strengthen the party organisation.
“Northeast region of India comprising eight states has diverse culture and traditions with hundreds of ethnic groups among the tribals and people with diverse religion.
The BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) has evil designs to destroy the ethnic unity and traditions for their narrow political gains,” Faleiro told the media.
He said: “In the name of Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), the BJP to obtain political and electoral mileage, is forcefully imposing the ideology and plan of the saffron party among the people of northeast India. We are firm to resist the evil designs of the BJP and the party led government at the centre.”
“The BJP led government’s ‘One Nation – One Language’ proposed policy would be a dangerous proposition for the unity and integrity of the people of northeast India. The Congress is firm to thwart any kind of move to alienate northeast India and its people from India’s century old universal tradition, culture and unity and diversity system,” he said. (IANS)
