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Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) released a “people’s complaint sheet” against the “corrupt” Bharatiya Janata Party-led authorities successful poll-bound Assam, accusing it of institutionalising “syndicate raj” and giving the lands of the indigenous radical distant to firm houses.
The 20-page papers incorporated the angst of the radical from crossed Assam, the State Congress leaders said. It was released astatine a hallway successful Guwahati named aft Manabendra Sarma, a Congress person murdered successful the 1990s.
The complaint expanse accused the BJP of establishing a parallel system by patronising and promoting amerciable activities, including rat-hole ember mining, and turning Assam into a conduit for drugs, Burmese areca nuts, and different contraband items from crossed the planetary borders.
It claimed that Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Ministers adjacent to him, and members of his household accumulated amerciable wealth, generating “slush funds done an organised syndicate system” and investing the proceeds successful existent estate, ammunition companies, and different ventures.
The papers touched upon Assam’s “rising debts, irresponsible governance, and fiscal mismanagement”. It said that the State’s outstanding indebtedness crossed ₹2 lakh crore, expanding the fiscal load connected radical and aboriginal generations.
“The authorities is taking loans not for reforms oregon productive investments, but to money assorted freebies aimed astatine electoral winnability… The wealth of the radical of Assam, which should person been utilized to physique infrastructure and supply water, roads, and basal amenities, is alternatively being diverted and utilized chiefly for governmental purposes,” the papers read.
‘Stalled NRC’
Congress besides accused the BJP authorities of sabotaging the “universally accepted Assam Accord of 1985” and the “deliberate non-implementation of Clause 6 that guarantees the extortion of Assamese Identity” contempt repeated assurances.
The complaint expanse alleged that the BJP undermined the sanctity of the Assam Accord by introducing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the Immigration and Foreigners (Exemption) Order, 2025. It stated that the BJP stalled the workout to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and blackmailed communities by promoting a fearfulness psychosis done authoritative channels.
Criticising the BJP for failing to state the perennial problems of floods and riverbank erosion successful Assam arsenic a nationalist disaster, the papers highlighted the State government’s inability to make capable jobs and assistance Scheduled Tribe presumption to six communities — Chutia, Koch-Rajbongshi, Matak, Moran, Tai Ahom, and Tea Tribes.
The papers besides said the BJP had weakened and stifled nationalist education, leaving children of the mediocre successful the lurch. It pointed to the merger oregon closure of much than 9,000 State-run schools without taking the radical into confidence.
