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BJP trying to nullify Assam Accord: Congress

By Ajit Patowary

GUWAHATI, Jan 6 - Prime Minister Narendra Modi should stop boasting of his Government�s efforts at implementing the Assam Accord. For, the Prime Minister is going to nullify the historic Accord by getting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 passed in the Parliament. This was the observation made by Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Ripun Bora. He was talking to this newspaper, reacting to the address of the Prime Minister at a rally organised by BJP in Silchar.

Bora also viewed that the Prime Minister is perhaps uninformed of the Clauses of the Assam Accord and the history of the post-Assam Accord development. Or else, he would not have made the claim that the Congress has not done anything to implement the Accord during its rule in the State and also at the Centre. The Prime Minister had alleged in his Silchar speech that the Congress had done precious little to implement the Assam Accord.

The APCC chief has asked the Prime Minister to tell the people categorically which Clauses of the Assam Accord have so far been implemented by the BJP-led Governments at the Centre and in the State.

Bora also urged the Prime Minister to go through the Assam Accord and tell the people during whose rule the Numaligarh Refinery Ltd, the IIT Guwahati, the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, the Tezpur University and the Assam University at Silchar, the Assam Gas Cracker Project (Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd) and the Bogibeel Bridge over the Brahmaputra, among others were taken up.

On the statement made by the Prime Minister that the much-debated Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 would be an answer to the misdeeds of the Congress Government in the form of the divisions of the country, Bora said during the partition of the country, option was given to the people to choose their country. This option was kept open between 1947 and 1958. Those who did not opt for India were left out. And, this should not be treated as an injustice to them.

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