GUWAHATI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged people in Assam to punish the Congress in the coming assem-bly election in the state for encouraging illegal infiltrators and ignoring indigenous people.
"Congress always encouraged illegal infiltrators and continues to do the same. For decades, the party didn't provide land rights to the indigenous people of Assam and even handed over lands of Adivasis to infiltrators," Modi said.
The PM who began a two-day-visit to the state on Friday (the last one ahead of announcement of election schedule expected within the next 3-4 days) was addressing a public meeting in Kokrajhar vir-mally from Guwahati. Modi was to attend the meeting, but couldn't go there due to inclem-ent weather.
"The situation had become very dangerous in districts like Dhubri and Goalpara and due to this imbalance in population it created problems in Bodoland as well. I am happy that the present state government has launched a big drive to evict ille-gal encroachers and provide land rights to indigenous peo-ple, " he said.
"I would urge everyone that in the coming election punish Congress severely and send a clear message that there's no place for infiltrators in the country now. This message from Assam will soon become the voice of the nation," Modi added.
The PM said that Congress didn't focus on development in Bodoland region of Assam and for its selfish political gains used to create divides among different communities, whereas BJP worked towards permanent peace in this disturbed region and signed a peace deal that included all stakeholders
"Congress is a shop of lies. Along with one lie, it gives four other super lies as gifts. But the party never had any wish to ful-fill those promises.
