Assam CM thinks he is 'raja', but people will put him in jail: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, 16 July, claimed that though Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma thinks he is a ‘raja’, he will be put in jail for corruption.

Alleging that the BJP and the Election Commission of India "stole" the Maharashtra elections from the Congress and its allies, and they are trying to repeat it in Bihar, the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha urged party workers here to be vigilant to thwart any such attempt in the northeastern state.

"The CM thinks he is the ‘raja’ and is busy 24 hours handing over your wealth and land to Adani and Ambani. But if you listen to his voice carefully, look at his face closely on TV, fear is writ large,” Gandhi said.

Gandhi was addressing a party workers’ meetat Chaygaon, around 40 km from Guwahati.

“He (Sarma) knows that the fearless Congress workers will put him in jail,” he asserted.

Gandhi claimed that the CM and his family will be held accountable for their corruption, and the media will be showing him taken to prison, and not even Narendra Modi or Amit Shah will be able to save him.

"The Congress won’t have to do it. The youth, workers, farmers, people of all communities and religions know how corrupt he is, and they will do it,” he claimed.

Speaking about the party losing the Maharashtra assembly polls, he alleged that one crore voters, all in favour of the BJP and its allies, were added to the electoral roll in the western state within a four-month gap between the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections last year.

“The BJP-EC stole the Maharashtra election from us,” he alleged.

Gandhi claimed that the same tactic is being tried in Bihar and “names of poor people, workers, Congress voters, RJD voters are being deleted through the special intensive revision of electoral rolls”.

“They will try the same tactics in Assam. Our responsibility is to ensure that they cannot do it,” he added.

He congratulated the new state Congress president Gaurav Gogoi for starting their work already, and said people will start seeing the results soon.

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Gandhi alleged that just as in Assam, land is being taken away across the country from people and given to a few industrialists.

“Thousands of acres of your land are being given away to Adani, Ambani, Ramdev. It is happening in Maharashtra, everywhere in the country. Small traders, farmers, workers, who are the backbone of the nation, are being wiped out for the sake of five-six billionaires,” he claimed.

“There is a fight of ideologies in the country; the hatred and violence of the RSS versus the truth and non-violence of the Congress,” he said.

“They are trying the same tactics in Bihar, and will do so in Assam. We have to be careful,” Gandhi said.

Taking a jibe at Himanta Biswa Sarma, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said, "The man who ran away from Congress is now the chief minister of Assam.”

Alleging that the current BJP dispensation in the state is indulging in corruption, Kharge said, “Those who have wronged people will be sent to jail. They should repair prisons now, as they will have to stay there.”

Kharge said that if the Congress is voted to power, it will guarantee education for children, jobs for youth in Assam and a maximum wage for tea garden workers.

Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kharge said, “Modi visited five countries in five days, but he could not find two hours to come to strife-torn Manipur.”

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