APCC chief Bhupen Borah hits out at Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

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GUWAHATI: Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Bhupen Kumar Borah came down heavily on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the latter's statement on the first Prime Minister Jawharlal Nehru's purported 'farewell' to Assam and the Northeast during the 1962 Chinese aggression.

In a statement issued to the media today, Borah said that the statement of the Union Finance Minister on Nehru's purported "farewell" to Assam and the Northeast smacked of her "half-cooked" knowledge and understanding of the connotation of Nehru's speech when the Parliament was having a lengthy discussion on the Chinese attack.

Borah said that the speech of the then Prime Minister Nehru in the Lok Sabha on the unwarranted Chinese misadventure on Indian territory in 1962 has now established, in retrospect, two aspects of the great personality. In his speech in the Parliament, according to Borah, Nehru meant to say that his 'heart and thoughts were with the people of Assam and the Northeast'.

Borah further said that even in the throes of facing the adversity and humiliation of the Chinese attack in 1962, the then Prime Minister Nehru had never tried to hide the actual facts from his countrymen. "The then Prime Minister not only immediately agreed to convene a special parliament session to discuss the Chinese debacle, but the then Nehru government took every opposition member into confidence by allowing each of them to participate in the debate. Whereas the present Prime Minister Modi and his entire government have been consistently in the denying mood, hiding the actual fact of Chinese aggression in the last six years. The Modi government has throttled the democratic practice of the Indian Parliament to such an extent that, let alone allowing a special session to discuss the continued grabbing of Indian territories by the Chinese Army in Ladakh and Aruanchal Pradesh, the Government in Parliament has summarily been rejecting any discussion or entertaining any question raised by members on the Chinese intrusion," Borah said.

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