Mr Gandhi alleged that natural resources and PSUs in the state are being “sold off” to two leading businessmen of the country.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday, accusing the BJP and RSS of dividing Assam, said his party will protect every principle of the Assam Accord and will never implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act if voted to power in the state.
The Gandhi scion, addressing his first public rally in Assam ahead of the assembly elections due in March-April, said the state needs its “own chief minister” who will listen to the voice of the people and not one who listens only to Nagpur and Delhi.
“The Assam Accord has brought peace and it is the protector of the state. I and my party workers will protect each principle of the Accord. There will not be a single deviation from it,” Mr Gandhi said.
Illegal immigration is an issue in Assam and the people of the state have the capability to resolve the issue through dialogue, the Congress leader expressed.
Mr Gandhi, alleging that BJP and RSS are trying to divide the state on the issue of Assam Accord, said: “If Assam is divided, then Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Union Home Minister Amit Shah will not be affected, but the people of Assam and the rest of India will be affected.”
The former Congress president, talking about the controversial CAA, said that if his party comes to power in the state, the law will not be implemented under any circumstance.
Assam needs a chief minister from their “own people” who will listen to their issues and try to resolve them, he stressed.
“Remote control can operate a TV but not a CM. The current CM listens to Nagpur and Delhi. If Assam gets a CM like this again, it will not benefit the people. The youths need a CM who will give jobs to them,” he added.
Mr Gandhi, taking a jibe at the prime minister, the Union home minister and “businessmen close to them”, said: “I have devised a new slogan for Assam — Hum do, humare do; Assam ke liye humare aur do, aur sab kuch loot lo.”
Mr Gandhi alleged that natural resources and PSUs in the state are being “sold off” to two leading businessmen of the country.
Accusing the Modi government of “looting” public money during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr Gandhi said r Modi waived huge amounts of loans of his “two businessmen friends”.
He also stressed that the Congress government under the leadership of former chief minister Tarun Gogoi had brought peace to Assam by ending the era of violence.
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