Nadda slams Congress for aligning with AIUDF

Sootea/Dhakuakhana (Assam) Mar 15 (PTI) BJP president
J P Nadda on Monday slammed the Congress, saying it is capable
of providing only one guarantee that is for corruption
wherever it comes to power, and accused it of “embracing” the
AIUDF in Assam, the party which had once been rejected by
Tarun Gogoi, Congress veteran and former chief minister.

Gogoi had asked in a dismissive manner “Who is Ajmal”
(implying AIDUF president Badruddin Ajmal) when asked about a
possible alliance with the party during 2006 assembly polls
and now the Congress describes AIDUF as its “friend and
brother,” Nadda said at a poll rally in Sootea.

Prior to that Muslim migrants in the state were
considered to be the vote bank of the Congress.

“Politics and power are really strange and to achieve
it some parties can cross all principles and limits,” the BJP
leader said.

The Congress, which was in power for 15 years in the
northeastern state since 2001, has formed a Grand Alliance
comprising the AIUDF and six other parties to fight the
election for the 126-member assembly against the BJP-led NDA.

Speaking on the alliance with the AIUDF, Nadda told
another rally at Barchalla, the Congress is ready to do
anything for power but “I am sure that the late chief
minister”s (Tarun Gogoi) soul will not rest in peace following
this step taken by the party.
“I also wonder what his son (Gaurav Gogoi, Congress
MP) has to say about this. Is this the way to carry forward
his father”s legacy?” he asked.
The BJP leader said that the country was heading
towards ”Congress-Mukt Bharat” (India free of Congress).

“There are still a few states left, but soon all will
be a part of the NDA,” the BJP leader said.
Speaking at another rally at Dhakuakhana, the BJP
president said, many Congress leaders are now coming to Assam
and talking about five guarantees.

But the Congress can provide only “corruption
guarantee” wherever it comes to power though it has promised
five-guarantees in poll-bound Assam, Nadda said.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
during her recent Assam poll campaign had launched its five-
guarantee campaign.

“For 60 years, Congress leaders only indulged in
corruption and so for the last five years, we had to fill up
pot-holes, repair roads and convert double lane highways to
four and six-lanes”, the BJP president said.

It is the BJP which has a mission and the “Congress is
only interested in commission”, the BJP leader alleged.

He also accused the Congress of “latkana” (delaying),
“atkana” (stalling) and “bhatkana” (misleading) but Prime
Minister Narendra Modi believes in “jodna” (integrating).

“It is Prime Minister Narendra Modi who with his
initiatives has joined Assam and the Northeast with Mainstream
India”, Nadda said.

Assam has moved ahead along the path of development
due to the efforts of the Prime Minister which the Sarbananda
Sonowal-led BJP government in Assam has executed in the state.

He said, if one draws a camparison between the long
spell of Congress rule in Assam and 60 months of the
Sarbananda Sonowal-led NDA government, the balance will tilt
in favour of the present dispensation.

“We assure you that all pending works will be
completed in the next five years”, he said.

It is the saffron party which has ensured peace in
Assam by signing an agreement with the four factions of the
National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) following which
3,000 insurgents surrendered arms, Nadda said.
“For 50 years, the problem had existed and thousands of
people had been killed. The Prime Minister and the Union Home
Minister amicably resolved the issue by ensuring that the
Bodos continue to live in Assam, peace returns to the state
and announced a package of Rs 1,500 crore for the development
of the area and its people.

“It was also with the blessings of Modiji that the
setting up of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
was sanctioned…