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Himanta Biswa Sarma is Gujarati Mama who takes orders from Gujarati bosses: Gourav Vallabh

Himanta Biswa Sarma is Gujarati Mama who takes orders from Gujarati bosses: Gourav Vallabh

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GUWAHATI: All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesman Gourav Vallabh today took a jibe at powerful Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma calling him “Gujarati Mama”.

At a time when ‘Himu Mama’, as Sarma is fondly referred to in the ongoing campaign, was promising his ‘nephews’ at Biswanath this afternoon that the BJP, if voted to power, would recruit 1 lakh youth into government jobs in the next one year so that they could buy their own Royal Enfield Bullets, Vallabh questioned back here why the BJP failed to create 25 lakh jobs it promised before the 2016 polls in the state.

Vallabh also referred to BJP at ‘Chunauwi Janata Party’ that goes to people with promises only during poll campaigns.

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Asked whom he referred to Gujarati Mama, Vallabh said: “You know who I am speaking about. He takes orders from his Gujarati bosses and propagates lies and makes false promises to the people of Assam.”

Alleging that the BJP-led government in Assam failed miserably to address the unemployment problem, the Congress leader said: “The ‘Chunauwi Janata Party’ could manage to give jobs to only 3 per cent of what it promised before coming to power. It could provide only 80,000 jobs in five years to the youth of Assam after promising to create 25 lakh jobs.”

“If they could not give 1 lakh jobs in five years, I would like to ask the Gujarati Mama, who has promised 1 lakh government jobs in the first year after returning to power, from where will he create those jobs,” Vallabh said.

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“What I feel is that he is eyeing the over 1 lakh unemployed who have already filled up their details in the Congress website and is making yet another false promise,” he added.

Asserting that the five guarantees the Congress has given to people, including jobs to 5 lakh youth, would be the party’s Gospel, Vallabh said: “The first thing the Congress government’s Cabinet will do, if voted to power, will adopt a resolution to implement the job guarantee clause. It’ll be the first resolve to be signed.”

Edited By: Imtiaz Ahmed
Published On: Mar 17, 2021