Assam: Congress makes overtures to BJP allies

GUWAHATI: Assam Congress president Ripun Bora on Sunday made an open invitation to BJP’s two allies within the government, Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People’s Front to begin the formation of a non-BJP government and offered the outside make stronger.
“We are able to provide outside make stronger if a non-BJP government is shaped. I appeal to Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and BPF leader Hagrama Mohilary to begin forming a new government and we will be able to give them our out of doors make stronger. They have their own CM,” Bora stated.

BJP has 60 contributors within the 126-member state legislative meeting and the three-party alliance stands to reduce to a minority government if the two regional allies pull out. With Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF on board, AGP and BPF can shape the other government with the outside make stronger promised through Congress.

For the last few days Congress has been harping on another government within the state taking advantage of the BJP’s rising unpopularity fuelled through the continuing unrest over the proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.

Congress has additionally selected Mahanta over AGP party president Atul Bora, who's a minister, on account of his fresh arduous hitting remarks against the government. Mahanta on Sunday reiterated that the government has now not been able to are living up to the expectations of the folk and stated that he himself is a sufferer of the government’s style of working.


“In my very own constituency, all of the roads needs to be repaired however I've got some lukewarm reaction from the government, through which my party is a component. On April 4, I went to New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and inform him in regards to the deplorable situation of the roads in my constituency. We have three ministers within the government, however I doubt if they're getting considerable scope to paintings,” Mahanta stated.


He added, “I've been seeing from media reviews in regards to the move through Congress. I don’t know about Congress, however our party has now not discussed this issue.”


Last week senior Congress functionary, Debabrata Saikia, who could also be leader of the opposition within the meeting, additionally signaled the party’s willingness to make stronger a non-BJP government for the sake of saving the Assam Accord of 1985, which used to be signed between Centre, the state government and organizations that had led the anti-foreigners’ agitation from 1979 to 1985 all the way through Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure because the PM.


The invoice proposes to offer citizenship to migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan on grounds of spiritual persecution. On the opposite hand, the Accord says simplest those people who entered Assam ahead of March 25, 1971, can also be granted Indian citizenship, regardless of religion.
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