Congress’ faulty policies make Northeast suffer, let alone Manipur: CM Himanta

 STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the faulty policies of the Congress are behind the unrest in the entire Northeast, let alone Manipur. While in power, the Congress took no concrete measures to solve the problems afflicting the region, he said. “Now, we are paying the price for your faulty policies,” he added.

Reacting to what Congress MP from Assam Gaurav Gogoi informed the Parliament on the no-confidence motion on the violence in Manipur, the Chief Minister said, “Gogoi cited a few misleading pieces of information in the Parliament. The ethnic conflict in Manipur is not new. Such violence in the state had its roots in 1993. Hundreds of people were killed either in ethnic clashes or other violent activities. However, no Congress Prime Minister or Union Home Minister visited the state during such flare-ups.”

He said, “Gogoi informed the House that during the Kokrajhar ethnic riots and the Nellie riots, Congress Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Indira Gandhi, respectively, visited Assam. However, the two prime ministers visited Assam not to give a healing touch or resolve the problems. The then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has no record of visiting Kokrajhar during the 2008 ethnic conflict there. In the 2012 ethnic clash in Kokrajhar, Manmohan Singh visited Kokrajhar for an hour.”

He said, “According to records, Indira Gandhi visited Nellie only for five minutes in 1983. She did not even take responsibility for the incident. She rather blamed the Assam agitators for the incident. What Gaurav Gogoi informed the Parliament today is the wrong narrative. Never mislead the people of India when you speak about the Northeast.”

The Chief Minister said, “The Congress governments created Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Meghalaya but refrained from demarcating the inter-state borders between them. The consequence is that the states in the region have been bearing the brunt of border disputes even now. Now we are trying our best to resolve the interstate border disputes. The policy of the Congress was to keep the states of the Northeast busy fighting among themselves to make the national party rule over them.”

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