Previous Congress govts turned Assam's Barak Valley into crime hub for vote bank politics: Nabin

Ram Krishna Nagar (Assam), BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Saturday alleged that the previous Congress governments in Assam had turned Barak Valley into a "crime hub" for vote bank politics.

He said people punished the grand old party for its "politics of appeasement of infiltrators" by voting it out of power in the state.

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Addressing a poll rally in support of the party's Ram Krishna Nagar candidate in Sribhumi district, Nabin said, "Previous governments had turned Barak Valley into a crime hub for vote bank politics. The politics of appeasement was at its peak as Congress governments were more concerned about infiltrators than the local people."

He said people decided to "punish" the Congress and voted it out of power, and installed a BJP-led NDA government with a "clear vision for development".

He exuded confidence that the NDA will retain power in the northeastern state with a massive mandate in the April 9 elections.

Asserting that the BJP-led government has ensured taking forward 'Virasat-vikash' (heritage-development) together, Nabin said crime has been checked in the southern part of the state.

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"No criminal dares to trouble the people anymore as they know that Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will not spare anyone," he said.

The BJP national president listed the various developmental initiatives of the government in the last 10 years, while pledging to take forward the progress.