Slamming the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government at the Centre, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said that the Central Government is blowing up the AgustaWestland chopper deal out of proportion to divert peoples’ attention from its many failures.
“In order to hide its failure and to divert public attention from the basic issues, the NDA Government is trying to make AgustaWestland a huge issue. The erstwhile Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government had blacklisted the company and initiated an exhaustive probe to unearth the truth behind the issue,” Gogoi said in a statement on Friday.
“However, the Modi Government instead of zeroing in on the issue is making a bizarre attempt to divert public attention from its failures like checking price rise, unemployment, drought and agrarian crisis to name a few that grappled the country. The NDA Government instead of finding the real culprit seemed to be leading the people to a quagmire in the chopper deal and misleading the Nation,” Gogoi said.
Offering his piece of advice to the Centre over the issue, the Assam Chief Minister urged the NDA Government to order a Supreme Court monitored enquiry into the AgustaWestland chopper deal and let the country know the truth associated with the issue.
Gogoi said that the NDA Government is distracting public attention from real issues by making AgustaWestland a political vendetta and said that the Modi Government instead of materialising its much publicised rhetoric ‘acche-din’ is up for crushing democracy by imposing President’s Rule and toppling democratically elected Governments in Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh.
Gogoi also termed this an attack on the democratic and federal structure of the country and said that the Congress will keep fighting for its legitimate cause of saving democracy.