Gap between NE and Delhi has been narrowed: Union Home Minister Amit Shah

 Fundamentalist forces will be uprooted, says CM

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has emphasized that development had come to a standstill in Assam during the tenure of successive Congress governments due to agitations, militancy, bandhs etc., but now the state in marching ahead on the path of development and progress.

Addressing a rally of BJP karyakartas at the Khanapara Veterinary College ground here on Saturday, Shah further said that after the Central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, the gap between the North-East and New Delhi has been narrowed. The Budgetary allocation for the North-eastern states has also increased threefold, he pointed out.

Shah said that as a result of the infrastructural development that occurred in Assam after 2014, an industrial revolution is taking place in the state. In this context, the Union Home Minister referred to improved road, railway, air and waterway connectivity in the entire region.

Shah said that whereas the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had bid goodbye to Assam in 1962 during the Indo-Sino war, Narendra Modi is transforming the state into a leading light of India's development. He said that most of the militant outfits of the North-east have joined the mainstream and as a result of vast improvement in the law-and-order situation the Centre has withdrawn the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from 80 per cent areas of the region.

Shah mentioned that poaching of rhinos has stopped in Assam after the BJP came to power and simultaneously smuggling of drugs, cattle, Myanmarese supari etc., has also decreased sharply.

On the other hand, BJP national president JP Nadda said in his address at the rally that there was a time when people of mainstream India had looked down upon their counterparts from the North-East, but now Assam is acting as a sentinel of the country.

Nadda said that the Centre is spending thousands of crores of rupees for the overall development of the North-East and added that Assam has made rapid progress due to proper utilization of such funds by both Sarbananda Sonowal and incumbent Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

The BJP president said that the credit for the rapid rise of the BJP in Assam goes to the party karyakartas of the state.

Chief Minister Sarma said in his speech that Assam has received a fresh impetus under Prime Minister Modi's leadership. He added that the North-East has regained its lost honour due to Modi.

While lauding the ban imposed on the Popular Front of India (PFI), Sarma said that the organization was creating a threat for Indian culture. In this context, the Chief Minister asserted that the state government is determined to uproot fundamentalist forces from Assam.

Sarma appealed to the karyakartas of the state to strive hard to ensure that the BJP wins at least 12 out of 14 seats in the Lok Sabha elections of 2024.

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