Team News Riveting
New Delhi, January 24
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday urged people to give five more years to make the state free from flood as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government has made Assam free from bullets and agitations.
Addressing ‘Vijay Sankalp Samaroh’ rally in poll-bound Assam’s Nalbari, Shah attacked the Congress party and its ally All India United Democratic Front-AIUDF led by Badruddin Ajmal.
“A flood of development came here. Hospitals, new roads, colleges are being constructed. Industries are being set-up here. In the coming days, Only BJP can solve the biggest problem of Assam — floods. We have made Assam free from bullets and agitations. Give five years more to BJP and we will make Assam free from flood too,” he said.
Listing out some of the developments in Assam by the BJP government, Shah said that in the 13th Finance Commission, the state was given only Rs 79,000 crore.
“In the 14th Finance Commission, the BJP government gave Rs 1.55 lakh crore to the state. We opened bank accounts of about 7.20 lakh people in the tea garden area. BJP has done the work of giving Rs 5,000 to about 60.20 lakh people in 26 districts of Assam,” he added.
Shah is in Assam as part of a two-day visit to the region. Earlier in the day, he addressed a public rally to mark the first anniversary of signing the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) Accord at Kokrajhar in Assam.
The term of the 126-member Assam Assembly is ending on 31 May 2021.
