2 months ago
2
Senior Congress person Pawan Khera connected Friday (April 3, 2026) accused the BJP of diverting attraction from cardinal issues successful Assam Assembly elections by creating controversies retired of thing and shaping the nationalist sermon astir them.
Mr. Khera, successful an interrogation with PTI, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the Congress of trying to bring successful the Communal Violence Bill is simply a "very unusual statement" from a antheral who has been successful powerfulness astatine the Centre for astir 12 years.
"His enactment is besides ruling Assam for the past 10 years, yet they person to spell backmost to past history, misinterpret things and effort to displacement absorption from their failures," helium said.
"Why bash they person to twist facts, wherefore from 2014, and this shows the PM knows determination is not overmuch to speech astir successful presumption of BJP's achievements," the Chairman of the AICC's Publicity section said.
Regarding Mr. Shah's assertion that the BJP is against infiltrators and not opposed to indigenous Assamese Muslims, Mr. Khera asked, "Why don't they accidental they adhere to the 1985 Assam Accord — that is the solution of each debate." "The BJP is trying to polarise archetypal and past to differentiate betwixt indigenous Muslims and outsiders is simply a precise designed and curated run to disagreement indigenous radical of Assam - whether they are Hindus oregon Muslims," helium asserted.
The BJP is hoping that polarisation becomes an predetermination issue, but "I don't spot it happening connected the crushed arsenic I question crossed the state".
Regarding AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi campaigning for the AIUDF, the Congress person said everybody has the close to run during elections, and helium besides has that right.
On Mr. Owaisi's assertion that Muslims cannot expect thing from the Congress, Mr. Khera said that helium should retrieve that the ruling enactment successful Assam is the BJP, truthful wherefore does helium person to onslaught the Congress.
"Any superior pupil of politics, peculiarly successful Assam, knows that each these distractions - Owaisi is different distraction- has been planted by the BJP to effort and disagreement votes," helium said.
Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi's allegation that AIUDF main Badruddin Ajmal and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma are successful league, helium said it is not their party's communicative but a information — "whether it is Owaisi oregon Ajmal, they are intelligibly successful league with the BJP".
Mr. Khera asserted the CM's authorities is precise soon coming to an extremity –people who alteration parties "to get powerfulness and entree to much money, arsenic successful his case, are not leaders but mercenaries connected prosecute whom the highest bidder volition get, and successful his case, Mr. Shah was the highest bidder, and helium got Sarma connected his side." "Such leaders whose careers were built by the Congress enactment and could beryllium disloyal to it, cannot beryllium expected to beryllium loyal to Assam, and the past 5 years of Sarma's tenure amusement it," helium said.
Regarding 2 elder leaders — Pradyut Bordoloi and Bhupen Borah — leaving Congress to articulation BJP, Mr. Khera said they should beryllium asked these questions and "there are pressures that travel to each of america from different parties, but astir of america bash not succumb arsenic we person thing to fell oregon fear." "Congress is simply a 140-year-old enactment that has withstood a batch of betrayals, ups and downs, accent and troughs, but we person survived," helium said.
This has been imaginable due to the fact that the workers, the apical enactment of the enactment has an "unmistakable, unmitigated, unalloyed committedness to the ideology of the Constitution of India — the ideology that defines the past contented of India," helium said.
People who tin recognize the contented of India volition ne'er "indulge successful the Hindu-Muslim debate, ne'er effort to power sides, ne'er betray the ideology that has nurtured their careers," helium asserted.
Regarding the main minister's allegations against Gaurav Gogoi having Pakistani links, Khera alleged that helium (Sarma) has wholly mislaid his sanity.
"I utilized to deliberation the CM was a sane, mean person, but I americium acrophobic helium is not. Not galore radical tin support their sanity erstwhile they spot defeat," Mr. Khera said.
"People are laughing astatine these allegations…they are successful powerfulness some successful the Centre and state, they should not conscionable impeach idiosyncratic but instrumentality action. They are not doing truthful due to the fact that they cognize this is simply a lie," helium asserted.
On nationalist BJP leaders not raising this contented during the canvass campaign, Khera said, "I would hatred to admit it, but possibly the PM and Shah are precise somewhat much sensible than the CM."
Asked astir Chief Minister Sarma alleging that Congress is politicising vocalist Zubeen Garg's death, Khera countered, "Is seeking justness for him wrong, should anybody respond successful the mode the CM did…should this not beryllium their precedence too, should the contiguous request for justness beryllium a communal consensus." "Why should we statement this, wherefore should the CM person immoderate objection to it…is helium trying to assistance someone, to fell something, trying to support someone, radical are doubting wherefore helium is opposed to justness for Zubeen. I americium precise blessed and proud, the Congress brought this up," helium asserted.
Mr. Khera said it is hard to ideate the forthcoming Bihu festival without Zubeen's voice, people's sentiments are wounded and "whenever his decease is mentioned, we spot sadness successful their eyes and arsenic a liable enactment we request to respond to that consciousness of sorrow." He claimed determination is simply a sentiment of betrayal by the BJP successful the authorities during the past 5 years among each sections and that "is a precise atrocious authorities for immoderate authorities to beryllium in".
