Guwahati: Launching a vitriolic assault on Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam authorities, Congress’ Rajya Sabha (*100*) Ripun Bora alleged the ruling BJP within the state made tall claims about success in numerous fields however “practically there is nothing to show as achievements”.
Bora slammed the BJP authorities over what he alleged gradual tempo of Covid-19 vaccination within the state and mentioned out of Assam’s 3.35 crore inhabitants, simply 20 lakh have been totally vaccinated until now.
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Describing the state of affairs as alarming, the Congress chief added whereas 1.28 crore folks obtained simply single dose and 1.07 crore folks of the age of above 18 years didn’t get even a single dose of vaccine.
Bora additionally lashed out on the Assam authorities for “jeopardising” the age-old social concord by bringing in a cattle preservation legislation.
“Under this Act selling of beef is banned within 5 km radius of any religious place. But Assam is such a state where almost all villages or areas, Hindus, Muslims and Christians have been living together since time immemorial,” PTI quoted Bora as saying in an announcement.
“As such there will be not a single place where there will not be Hindu or Muslim within the 5 km radius of a temple or a ‘satra’ (Vaishnavite monastery), ‘namghar’ (a kind of Assamese temple),” he added.
Bora additionally alleged that inter-state border disputes have escalated throughout the rule of the BJP-led authorities in Assam.
Claiming that there have been 35 encounters between the police and medicines peddlers within the first 100 days of the BJP authorities within the state, Bora mentioned it is a critical menace to human rights and towards a Supreme Court ruling.
Escalating his assault on the state authorities, Bora mentioned the repeated stress alongside the Assam-Mizoram, Assam-Nagaland and Assam-Meghalaya borders and lack of progress within the talks over boundary disputes can’t be termed as success.
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The Congress chief additional mentioned the ruling BJP in Assam has not but fulfilled a celebration promise throughout the election marketing campaign that the micro finance mortgage of the ladies debtors will probably be waived off inside one month of forming the federal government.
