Jorhat: Launching a frontal assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday alleged he’s unhappy about a tweet by a 22-year-old lady but not for the flood-ravaged people of Assam.
A day after Modi raised the toolkit challenge and alleged Congress conspiracy in it at a ballot rally in Chabua in Assam, the daughter of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, lamented that Modi was silent on peoples’ struggling throughout perennial floods. Last 12 months’s flooding of the Brahmaputra in the course of the pandemic affected some 2.8 million people.
“I used to be listening to the Prime Minister’s speech yesterday. He very critically mentioned that he was very unhappy about a growth. I assumed he would communicate about Assam’s growth or how BJP labored in Assam.
“But I was shocked to hear that the PM was talking about a tweet by a 22-year-old woman (Disha Ravi). He said Congress conspired to finish the tea industry of Assam. He was also sad about Congress mistakenly putting two wrong pictures on social media,” Vadra mentioned.
She questioned Modi why he was not unhappy for the people affected by the flood and the anti-CAA motion, in which 5 youths have been killed.
“Why didn’t you come to Assam when people were drowning? Why were you not sad when all the big promises by BJP were not fulfilled? Did you go to tea gardens and talk to workers about their problems?” the Congress chief requested of Modi.
Talking about the Prime Minister’s well-known assertion of “double-engined” authorities in Assam, Vadra made enjoyable of it saying the state at present has “two chief ministers”, in an obvious reference to rumours of highly effective minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal performing as rival energy centres.
“The PM said you have a double-engine government but Assam has two CMs. I don’t know which fuel runs which engine. The Assam government is not run in Assam. God save you!” she added.
The Congress chief additionally alleged that every one segments of the society, together with Youths, farmers and tea backyard employees, have been cheated by the BJP authorities because it didn’t fulfil any of its guarantees made 5 years in the past.
