Ruling Congress in Assam will bring out a White Paper on what assistance the State received from the Centre during the rule of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance, including the past eight months of the present Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre.
This was announced by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi here on Wednesday at the Rajiv Bhawan while releasing a booklet brought out by the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee on alleged “U-turn” by the BJP on its poll promises and rhetoric after coming to power at the Centre.
PCC president Anjan Dutta said that the booklet would be distributed among all the 24,230 booth level committees in the State so that the campaign to highlight “U-turn of the BJP” could be taken to the grassroots level.
Mr. Gogoi alleged that the BJP-led government at the Centre which rode to power with the promise of bringing “achche din” made a ‘U-turn’ and curtailed various development funds to the State, suspended the incentives under the North East Industrial Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIPP), posing hurdles in implementation of the National Food Security Act.
He also listed the issues such as land swap deal with Bangladesh, Lower Subonsiri hydropower project, influx of illegal Bangladeshi migrants on which he accused the BJP of making a ‘U-turn’ after coming to power.
“While we were in power at the Centre, they saw Bangladeshis everywhere in Assam and promised to drive them out after May 17. Now, they are not seeing foreigners any more. They opposed the land swap deal with Bangladesh when the UPA was in power. Now, they are rushing to implement it. They promised to bring investments to Assam and other Northeast regions. After coming to power, they have suspended the incentives under the NEIIPP. On every single poll promise they have made a U-turn,” alleged Mr Gogoi.
He reiterated that his government would not allow implementation of the Central Land Acquisition Act amended by the Modi-government through an Ordinance. The State Government had been drafting its own policy, he said.
