Assam Assembly elections | CM Sonowal running cattle syndicate, says Bhupesh Baghel
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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel mentioned his Assam counterpart Sarbananda Sonowal, caught between two energy centres, has been running a scientific syndicate as an alternative of a authorities.
While the BJP has been in search of votes within the identify of cow safety, the Sonowal authorities has inspired cattle trade throughout the border with Bangladesh, Mr. Baghel, in Assam to marketing campaign for the Congress, informed journalists in Guwahati on Wednesday.
“Since the BJP came to power in Assam in 2016, cow trade and exports of cow meat to Bangladesh went up by 211% in just two years and even BJP MP Maneka Gandhi has written to the Assam government on the treatment given to cows. The syndicate is not limited to cattle trade. The Sonowal government has broken all records in illegal coal trading and there are syndicates in bamboo, betel leaf, fish…” he mentioned.
Mr. Baghel referred to as Mr. Sonowal a “dummy CM” caught between two energy centres.
“The BJP talks of double engine. Truth is that one engine in Delhi is pulling Sonowal to one side and the other in Assam is pulling him in the opposite side. Everyone knows who or what this engine is,” he mentioned, with out naming Finance and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who’s extra seen than the Chief Minister.
The Chhattisgarh Chief Minister mentioned the individuals of Assam regretted voting for the BJP in 2016. “The people want to undo the wrongs and not repeat the same mistake,” he mentioned, including that the splurging of the BJP authorities on the “tea tribes” was a sign that the BJP was getting nervous forward of the elections.
“Assam’s plantation workers know that the Congress will increase their daily wage to ₹365 from the current ₹167. The confidence has come from Congress governments in Chhattisgarh and other States where we have delivered on our promises,” Mr. Baghel mentioned, referring to the waiver of loans to farmers in his State inside two days forming the federal government.
Mr. Baghel additionally slammed the Sarbananda authorities for failing to offer employment regardless of promising within the BJP’s 2016 imaginative and prescient doc to present 4.6 lakh jobs to the individuals of Assam yearly.
“In my information, 16.42 lakh people were unemployed between 2016 and 2018 and this figure has increased to 20 lakh in 2020. This implies that instead of giving employment, the BJP government has snatched jobs of around 5 lakh people,” he mentioned.
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