Congress conducting survey on financial hardship of Assam folks forward of meeting polls
The common annual borrowings by the Assam authorities elevated by practically 78 per cent over three years from 2019-20, whereas development has slowed down for GSDP and per capita revenue over the past fiscal in comparison with the previous 12 months, based on the state’s Financial Survey report for 2024-25.
“The BJP calls it a double engine authorities. However in actuality, it’s a bother engine authorities. Their solely motto is to polarise folks with lies and cheat the widespread man,” Sapra alleged.
He claimed that each one works of the BJP could be summarised in three Js — Jhuth (lies), Jumla (rhetoric) and Jugglery, and Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is “an knowledgeable in it and he’s doing it repeatedly”.
“The BJP stands for Bharatiya Jhuth Social gathering, Bharatiya Jumla Social gathering and Bharatiya Jugglery Social gathering. Polarisation is their important plank, however we may have our motion plan to counter them,” Sapra asserted.
When requested concerning the Congress’ technique to combat the BJP-led NDA within the state’s meeting election due subsequent 12 months, the nationwide spokesperson mentioned the chief of the Opposition, state president, MPs, MLAs and others are preventing on the particular person stage in opposition to the ruling entrance.
“The necessity of the hour is to place up a mixed and constant effort to defeat the BJP in subsequent 12 months’s meeting polls. The ten years of governance right here have created a variety of negativities. In Congress, everybody is worried for Assam, and the central management is giving utmost significance to the state,” he added.
Sapra mentioned that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has held conferences with senior leaders of the Assam unit and pressured that each one should be united in carrying ahead the get together’s ideology.
“All of the senior leaders understood the message and at the moment are working collectively. The Congress narrative ought to be hitting, and it ought to resonate with folks’s emotions. The principle narrative goes to be corruption, which is affecting the every day lifetime of the widespread man in Assam.
“Within the coming 8-10 months, Congress will current an even bigger challenge, which is able to instantly resonate with the folks,” the Opposition chief mentioned with out divulging particulars.
When identified in direction of the BJP’s accusation that Congress tickets had been bought within the lately held panchayat elections in Assam, Sapra mentioned corruption in ticket distribution of the opposition get together is a “false allegation”.
“It’s a stage-managed accusation to hold out character assassination of our get together. BJP is an knowledgeable in social media exploitation,” he added.
