The BJP on Sunday blamed the Congress practice of “harvesting politics of divisiveness and blood” for the killings in Assam.
BJP spokesperson MJ Akbar said those affected by the violence have refused to bury their dead demanding that Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi must come to the site of the incidents.“WhyIJ Because they (victims) know that it is an abject failure of the Government... It is the politics of divisiveness and blood on which the Congress has harvested too many votes for too long,” he told reporters here.
Asked why BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi raised the issue of illegal Bangladeshi migrants in his poll rallies, Akbar shot back saying, “He called something illegal as illegal”. He said it is the Congress policy that led to repeat violence in the State.A total of 31 people, including women and children, were killed and several others injured and thousands rendered homeless in attacks by NDFB(S) militants in different areas of Kokrajhar and Baksa districts of BTAD in Assam since Thursday.
Akbar said there was a history of bloody violence in the State and many refugee camps have been made before as well.“For 14-15 years, the Congress is ruling in the State. They have not tried to bring out a solution to this problem so far, because in politics of divide and rule, they get electoral benefit,” he said.