GUWAHATI: Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday criticized his successor Sarbananda Sonowal for travelling to Vietnam when the state was besieged via non-stop protests towards the Centre's transfer to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955 to make Bengali Hindus and others from non-Muslim communities, who have infiltrated the country from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan due to religious persecution, electorate of India.
Gogoi mentioned, "When the whole state is burning with protests against the Citizenship (amendment) Bill of 2016, he chose to go to Vietnam and that too by a chartered flight to explore the country's agriculture sector. This shows how irresponsible the chief minister of the state is."
Sonowal went on a day-long excursion of Vietnam on Monday and met several most sensible leaders of the Vietnamese government and discussed financial and different bilateral issues to boost agriculture, business and commerce in Assam.
Sonowal returned to the state on Tuesday afternoon most effective to be confronted via fresh threats via the state government employees that they would hand over their jobs if the bill was no longer scrapped. Protests towards the bill erupted when the joint parliamentary committee started the general public listening to on the bill here per week ago. The protests have most effective grown in the ultimate seven days.
"Vietnam imports agricultural technology from India. Sonowal should have taken a trip to Punjab to learn the techniques instead of wasting government fund by travelling to Vietnam along with agriculture minister and several BJP MLAs," Gogoi mentioned.
"This government has sent so many of its ministers to so many foreign countries seeking investments. How much of that has become a reality, no one knows," Gogoi added.
Sonowal held separate discussions with Vietnam deputy minister of agriculture and rural building, chairman of Vietnam's exterior relations commission Hoang Binh Quan and others.Sonowal additionally visited Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Science, where the officers made a presentation on Vietnam's agriculture, agricultural extension programme and analysis being carried out in the field of agriculture.
A state government spokesman mentioned the Hung Yen Provincial Peoples's Committee has expressed willingness to paintings for building in the state's agricultural sector with suitable technological support.
Gogoi mentioned, "When the whole state is burning with protests against the Citizenship (amendment) Bill of 2016, he chose to go to Vietnam and that too by a chartered flight to explore the country's agriculture sector. This shows how irresponsible the chief minister of the state is."
Sonowal went on a day-long excursion of Vietnam on Monday and met several most sensible leaders of the Vietnamese government and discussed financial and different bilateral issues to boost agriculture, business and commerce in Assam.
Sonowal returned to the state on Tuesday afternoon most effective to be confronted via fresh threats via the state government employees that they would hand over their jobs if the bill was no longer scrapped. Protests towards the bill erupted when the joint parliamentary committee started the general public listening to on the bill here per week ago. The protests have most effective grown in the ultimate seven days.
"Vietnam imports agricultural technology from India. Sonowal should have taken a trip to Punjab to learn the techniques instead of wasting government fund by travelling to Vietnam along with agriculture minister and several BJP MLAs," Gogoi mentioned.
"This government has sent so many of its ministers to so many foreign countries seeking investments. How much of that has become a reality, no one knows," Gogoi added.
Sonowal held separate discussions with Vietnam deputy minister of agriculture and rural building, chairman of Vietnam's exterior relations commission Hoang Binh Quan and others.Sonowal additionally visited Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Science, where the officers made a presentation on Vietnam's agriculture, agricultural extension programme and analysis being carried out in the field of agriculture.
A state government spokesman mentioned the Hung Yen Provincial Peoples's Committee has expressed willingness to paintings for building in the state's agricultural sector with suitable technological support.
Sonowal's Vietnam trip an irresponsible act: Tarun Gogoi
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