"Ministers are always above MLAs, work of MLA limited to Assembly," says Assam CM

GUWAHATI: Addressing a rally in Sorbhog yesterday on the occasion of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee's birth anniversary, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the power and work of a Minister will always be more than that of an MLA.

"The work of an MLA is limited inside the Assembly. Their job is to make laws and Ministers to implement them. Ministers will instruct the SDCs and BDOs, not the MLAs," said CM Sarma.

"The people have given the mandate to the BJP and AGP. The CPI (M) MLA can visit the assembly from time to time. It was mentioned in the constitution itself that MLAs can only make laws. They can make a law that we should allocate this amount of houses but to whom that will be decided by us," added CM Sarma.

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"MLAs can even sack us from our ministerial post for our underperformance. Though they cannot do this here because we have the majority," said Sarma taking a jibe at the opposition.

Leader of opposition and Nazira MLA Debabrata Saikia has opposed CM Sarma's statement saying "Assam CM has expressed openly the fascist authoritarian ideology of the Bharatiya Janata Party and he has also shown that the party does not even have the minimalistic belief in democracy."

LoP Saikia has also branded Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, whose statue was inaugurated in Sorbhog by CM yesterday, as a "communalist" in his statement.

Sorbhog was held by the former state president of BJP, Ranjit Kumar Dass, for two consecutive terms though it was a bastion of the left. But after high anti-incumbency sentiments (although according to Dass it was because the constituency had reached the edge of development under him) president Dass changed his constituency and it was again won by the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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