Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra Day 5 - "Most Corrupt": Rahul Gandhi On Assam's Sarma Government
Jorhat (Assam), January 18: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, while leading the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on the fifth day today, was accorded a tumultuous welcome on the Assam-Nagaland border today as thousands of party workers and supporters received him with beating of drums and raising of slogans carrying national flag in their hands. Several women who had been assembled for the Assam Chief Minister’s programme in Mariani spontaneously and enthusiastically met Rahul Gandhi as they saw him. Mr Gandhi met them warmly with his characteristic gentle smile and profound warmth.
Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma warned Rahul Gandhi of legal action if the Yatra enters Guwahati city.
“If the Yatra takes place inside Guwahati city, the government will take legal action. There is a hospital and a school in the city, if Rahul Gandhi still takes a yatra from inside the city, we will register a case,” said Mr Sarma. The Yatra will cover more than 800 kms in Assam and will be in the state till January 25.
The ‘Nyay Yatra’ made a grand and spectacular entry into Assam on the fifth day today.
Responding to such a warm reception, Gandhi, while speaking on the occasion, assured that he will raise the issues to Assam during the Nyay Yatra. “Probably Assam has the most corrupt government running in the country”, he observed, while adding that the BJP and the RSS are resorting to grave injustice across the country. He said, the aim of their divisive ideology was to make one religion fight against another religion and one caste against another. He said, while they make people fight against each other, they loot and rob their wealth.
Recalling his experience about the 4,000 km Bharat Jodo Yatra he held last year from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Gandhi said, it changed the political narrative in the country. He said, following that Yatra people wanted him to do a similar Yatra from East to West or West to East.
He referred to the violence in Manipur and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s complete indifference towards the people by not bothering to visit there even to this day. Similarly, he said, Modi had backed off from the ‘Framework Agreement’ the Modi government had signed in 2015.
He said, all these issues will be raised and brought to public attention during the Nyay Yatra, which started from Manipur and after passing through various states will conclude in Maharashtra.
Gandhi also expressed his gratitude to the Pradesh Congress team of Nagaland led by the PCC president for the successful Yatra in the state. He said he was overwhelmed by the response, love and affection people there showered at him. He expressed confidence that the Yatra will prove to be a similar success in Assam as well.
