Congress will bring law to protect infiltrators: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday alleged that the Congress, if it comes to power in Assam, will bring in a law to protect infiltrators, which the BJP and its allies will not allow. Addressing a poll rally at Gogamukh in Dhemaji district, Modi claimed that the Congress aims to “turn the majority community into a minority and create a permanent vote bank of infiltrators’’.
Before the BJP came to power in 2014, the Congress had “tried to introduce a new law at the Centre”, but the NDA had opposed it, he said.
“Congress leaders are openly saying that they will bring a new law in Assam to protect the infiltrators and are openly supporting them,” Modi said.
He also accused the grand old party of “trying to divide the country as the Muslim League did during Partition”.
“The Congress have also stabbed the Constitution prepared by Babasaheb Ambedkar,” Modi said.
“For the Congress, there are two families — one in Delhi and another in Assam, and their priority is the interest of their families and not that of the people’’, the Prime Minister said.
He was alluding to the Gandhi family and that of state Congress president Gaurav Gogoi.
The Prime Minister said if the BJP returns to power, it will “implement the Uniform Civil Code and safeguard tribals under the Sixth schedule to protect Assam’s identity”.
“The BJP’s 10-year rule heralded a new dawn of ‘seva’ (service) and ‘sushasan’ (good governance) in Assam,” he said. The PM asserted that all are saying that only the BJP-led NDA can build modern infrastructure in Assam.
Modi claimed that the Congress had only built three bridges over the Brahmaputra River in 60-65 years, while “the BJP has constructed five bridges in ten years, which has made the lives and livelihoods of people much easier”.
“It is not that Assam lacks resources, but the Congress, in its quest for power, divided the Assamese society and did not let the people of the two banks of the Brahmaputra River meet. The NDA Government understood the pain and hardships, and took the initiative of building bridges,” Modi said.
He also assured the people that the Subansiri hydroelectric project will protect Assam from floods.
The BJP, in its manifesto, has announced projects worth around `1,800 crore to make Assam free from the deluge, Modi said.
He claimed that more than 22 lakh poor families have been given pucca houses in the last 10 years of the BJP rule, and the party guarantees to provide the same to 15 lakh more families.
Modi asserted that the BJP’s double-engine Government will ensure 40 lakh women become ‘Lakhpati’ from the present count of three lakh.
The PM pointed out that the BJP’s manifesto has created a roadmap for more Government jobs and self-employment opportunities.
He urged the people to vote for the BJP-led NDA in the assembly polls and said, “Modi guarantees that he will ensure Assam’s progress further”.
“The BJP will make a hat-trick in Assam elections with people’s blessings, whereas the Congress will make a century of defeats in elections,” he added.
Elections to Assam’s 126 assembly constituencies will be held on April 9, with counting of votes on May 4.
