Assam Pradesh Congress Committee highlights 17 failures of BJP government

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC), chairman of the Media Department, MLA Bharat Narah, said that according to a recent national survey, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s popularity has considerably gone down. Narah explained the 17 main reasons for the failure of the BJP government. The 17 reasons cited by him in the press meet held in Rajiv Bhawan are: the CM’s communal policy; pushing Assam further into the debt trap; failure to check price rises; failure to resolve the employment problem; failing to check corruption; Withdrawal of Special State status for Assam; silence on presenting an accurate NRC; not implementing the report by the Justice Biplab Sharma Committee on Clause 6 of the Assam Accord; failure to check floods and soil erosion; not including Assam’s six communities in the ST category; Support for big dams; non-withdrawal of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS); failure to resolve boundary issues with neighbouring states; failure to get investment in the industries and commerce sector; political motivation in the delimitation of constituencies; conducting haphazard eviction drives without alternative arrangements in place; and indiscriminate setting up of toll gates.

Narah said, “Apart from the above-mentioned reasons, the APCC media department chairman also listed several other failures of the BJP government that have led to the fall in popularity ratings. Among them, he said that in spite of the constant harping on zero tolerance to corruption and clean and transparent appointments, the BJP government has set up a big market for jobs, and this is being conducted from the premises of the Vajpayee Bhawan.

He asserted that BJP followers are collecting money for government jobs. The BJP government has also failed to make Guwahati a smart city. According to a survey by the central government’s Smart City Mission, Indore comes in first place, Surat is in second place, and Agra is in third place. Guwahati features among the worst ten cities on the Smart City Mission list. Those aware of this are not pleased at all.”

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