'No mention of broken promises': Congress leader slams PM Modi over speech in Assam

GUWAHATI: Assam Congress leader Debabrata Saikia today said that the speech India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered today at the historic Jerenga Pathar in Sivasagar "failed to reassure the people of Assam." The Congress leader also slammed the PM over "unfulfilled pre-poll promises" that he made in the run-up to the elections in 2014 as well as 2019.

"I am very dissatisfied with the way he avoided making any reference to the various unfulfilled pre-poll promises made in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections as well as the Assembly elections of 2016," he added.

The Prime Minister is fond of expressing his ‘Man ki Baat’, but today he refrained from speaking his mind about the reasons behind non-fulfillment of promises such as implementing the Assam Accord “in letter and spirit” and deporting all illegal migrants, reviving the Hindustan Paper Corporation’s mills at Jagiroad and Panchgram as per the BJP’s pre-poll promise, why they have been unable to declare the flood and erosion problem of Assam as a National Problem and why they have not dredged the Brahmaputra and its tributaries as per commitment, Saikia added.

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Saikia further pointed that Modi has also not mentioned why they have not granted ST status to the six communities of Assam, contrary to repeated assurances during the last seven years.

Saikia, who represents in the Assam Assembly, further pointed out that avoided mentioning the plight of numerous ST and OBC families of Amsoi, Laika-Dadhia and Mikir Bamuni Grant.

"The people of Assam have begun to realize the bitter reality of the promises made by the Prime Minister and other BJP leaders and the electorate will give a befitting reply in the ensuing elections," the Congressman further prophesied.

It needs mention here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Assam today, where he also distributed land allotment certificates to indigenous people under a state government programme to one lakh beneficiaries.

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