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Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeated his onslaught connected Congress, accusing it of illegally settling Bangladeshi migrants successful Assam and protecting them.
Addressing a gathering successful eastbound Assam’s Dibrugarh territory connected Sunday (December 21, 2025), helium besides criticised the expansive aged enactment for neglecting the onshore rights of beverage plantation workers successful the State.
Migrant Bengali-speaking Muslims, often fixed the ‘Bangladeshi’ tag, and Adivasis of cardinal India root referred to arsenic ‘tea tribes’, are believed to represent the 2 largest ‘vote banks’ successful Assam, wherever Assembly elections are owed successful little than six months. While the Muslims are perceived to beryllium pro-Congress, the Adivasis are said to person gravitated toward the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“Congress has nary interest for the individuality of Assam and its people. They are funny lone successful powerfulness and continuing with their anti-India agenda,” Mr. Modi said, aft laying the instauration chromatic for a ₹10,601-crore brownfield ammonia-urea works successful Dibrugarh district’s Namrup.
“Congress likes the amerciable Bangladeshi migrants, and is protecting them aft having settled them. This is the crushed wherefore Congress is opposing the ongoing workout to close the voters’ list,” helium said, carrying connected from wherever helium near disconnected connected Saturday.
Mr. Modi said the bid to consolidate its ballot slope is down the Congress’s docket to settee Bangladeshi radical connected Assam’s lands and forests. “You (the indigenous communities) get destroyed (in the process), but they are not bothered. They person to fortify their vote-bank,” helium told the gathering.
Asserting that Assam has to beryllium protected from the “poison” of appeasement and ballot slope politics, helium assured the radical that the BJP would ever basal with them to support Assam’s individuality and honour.
“The BJP prioritises each enactment that enhances Assam’s prestige. But erstwhile it does that, Congress gets troubled the most. When our authorities conferred Bharat Ratna connected Bhupen-da (cultural icon Bhupen Hazarika), the Congress openly opposed it,” the Prime Minister said.
He besides slammed the Congress enactment for opposing the semiconductor portion being established astatine Jagiroad successful cardinal Assam’s Morigaon district.
“Despite being successful powerfulness for galore decades, the Congress denied onshore rights to Assam’s beverage plot community. The BJP authorities has fixed them onshore rights, arsenic good arsenic a dignified life. As a chaiwalla, if I don’t bash it, who will?” the Prime Minister said.
The ammonia-urea works to beryllium acceptable up by the Assam Valley Fertilizer and Chemical Company Limited volition person an yearly output of 12.7 lakh metric tonnes. The task is scheduled for commissioning successful 2030.
