Himanta Biswa Sarma: 'Regret 22 years that I spent with Congress'

GUWAHATI: Ahead of the ensuing polls in Assam, state's finance, health, and education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said that he "regrets" the 22 years that he spent as a Congressman.

 

Releasing a book by Union Home Minister Amit Shah here today, Sarma said, "I was with congress for 22 years and after working with Amit Shah, I realized how have I lost my those years. I want them back."

 

"How was this possible for BJP to do development in NE, how did we win Tripura, Assam, Who think BJP isn’t a secular party, how did we work in Nagaland and other parts where there are Christians and other communities. This book would be a living Dalil," Sarma declared.

 

Stating that nobody apart from Shah could have made him understand how it feels "to work for the nation", Sarma added that Shah "doesn’t compromise when it comes to nationalism."

 

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Addressing the gathering, Baijayant "Jay" Panda said, "Amit Shah showed us a never-before-seen leadership in terms of helping other countries during the covid crisis.  I appreciate how Himanta Biswa Sarma after 24x7 of his devotion as a politician took time out to translate this book. It’s extremely praiseworthy."

 

A biography on union home minister Amit Shah which was translated by Biswa Sarma from English into Assamese has been released today at Hotel Taj Vivanta in Guwahati.

 

The biography titled ‘Amit Shah aru Agragami BJP’ was translated into Assamese from the original English ‘Amit Shah and the March of BJP,’ originally published in 2019.

 

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal released the book in the presence of NEDA convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma, DoNER minister Dr. Jitendra Singh, BJP’s Assam in-charge Baijayant Jay Panda, BJP national general secretary Dilip Saikia, state president Ranjeet Kumar Dass, original writers of the book—Anirban Ganguly and Shiwanand Dwivedi.