Gogoi did nothing except indulge in family promotion: Shah

Charging the Congress-led government of "destroying" Assam, BJP president Amit Shah today accused the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi of doing nothing else but indulge in family promotion for years.
"For the last 15 years there is Congress government in Assam. But I regret that the state is lagging behind due to corruption and family promotion that (Chief Minister) Tarun Gogoi has been indulging in. He has done nothing else," Shah said at function here on the occasion of Bodo Accord Day.
Highlighting the fact that Assam is one of poorest states in the country despite its natural beauty and hard working youth, Shah said, "Congress ne Assam ko barbad kardiya (Congress has destroyed Assam)".

He exhorted public to vote for BJP-Bodoland Peoples Front combine in the upcoming Assembly polls for peace and progress in Assam and Bodoland under the Prime Ministership of Narendra Modi.
Further listing the ills in Assam under the Gogoi government, he said over 19,000 cases of atrocities against women had been filed in a year in Assam, where maternal and child mortality rate is also high.
"Can there be progress when mothers and women are not safe?" he asked.

Pointing out the increase in the state's unemployment figure from nine lakh to 23 lakh, Shah said, "Can there be progress in Assam without the progress of the youth here?".

Accusing the state government of not submitting the work completion certificates, he said, "Centre cannot give grants to Assam for accounts not given to the money provided to it by the Centre ... We want a corruption-free state government that brings Centre's development schemes and plans to the state and not fight with the Union government."
Referring to Bodoland, Shah said Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District chief Hagrama Mohilary has sought Rs 1,000 crore for development of Bodoland and has also worked out the details about how the money would be used.
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"Modi (PM) wants the Bodoland youth to progress with the

youth in the rest of the country and world. The NDA government believes in sabka vikas ek saman", the BJP president said.
Further criticising Congress, Shah referred to the 1962 Chinese aggression saying "Jawaharlal Nehru bade farewell to Assam stating he cannot save it ... But it was because of the brave soldiers of our army that Assam is still a part of India."
He accused the party of "encouraging illegal migration" from Bangladesh into Assam and infringing on the rights of the youth here.
"If BJP-BPF comes to power here then we will not allow further infiltration and those who have already come in will be searched out," he added.

On the recent alliance, Shah said "It is historic that BJP and BPF decided to fight the upcoming Assam Assembly elections together. This is not a political understanding but for the development of Bodoland."
He said the alliance will undertake welfare schemes to provide jobs to the youth with their skill development, open health-care centres in villages, connect villages through roads, protect rhinos.
Highlighting the importance of the Accord day, Shah said, " it is not only important for Bodoland but for the country because on this day on February 10, 2003 the Bodoland Accord was signed bringing a successful end to a long time movement for the rights of the people here."

The Accord is hundred per cent successful and progress can be seen today in Bodoland, he added.
Those who had taken up arms have during the last 13 years in the Assembly and Parliament raised their issues and carried back what is the peoples' just right and established peace here, Shah said.