Will hike Assam tea staff’ wages: Rahul Gandhi
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Tea plantation labourers, a deciding think about a 3rd of Assam’s 126 Assembly seats, are the main target of political events for the upcoming elections
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday promised to greater than double the each day wage of tea plantation staff if his occasion got here to energy in Assam.
He additionally took a swipe on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for making an attempt to divide Assam in order that “business tycoons from Gujarat” take the State’s wealth away.
The focus of political events in poll-bound Assam has been on tea plantation staff, who’re a deciding think about a 3rd of Assam’s 126 Assembly seats.
Launching the Congress marketing campaign in jap Assam’s Sivasagar close to a historic subject the place Prime Minister Narendra Modi had addressed a rally a number of days in the past, Mr. Gandhi mentioned the wage of tea staff can be hiked from the present ₹165 to ₹365 per day.
“What can you buy with ₹167? We will add ₹200 to this figure and take away ₹2 to fix ₹ 365 as your daily wage if the Congress is voted to power,” Mr. Gandhi mentioned.
Tea staff have been the flavour of the ballot season in Assam. The BJP-led alliance authorities has wooed them with money and incentive schemes in addition to promising to hike their wages inside a number of days.
Mr. Gandhi additionally dedicated to guard the ideas of the Assam Accord signed between All Assam Students’ Union and the Centre in 1985 on the finish of a violent six-year agitation in opposition to unlawful immigration.
“Assam has the issue of illegal immigration but the people of the State have the capability to resolve them through dialogues. The Congress will defend and protect the principles of the Assam Accord,” he asserted, referring to the delay in implementing a significant clause of the accord that ensures constitutional safeguards for the indigenous individuals of the State.
‘Will not allow CAA’
The Congress chief recalled former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi as his guru who acquainted him with the problems of Assam, together with the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
Pointing to the crossed CAA printed on the Assamese “gamosa” round his neck, he mentioned: “We will not allow the CAA come what may.”
Mr. Gandhi additionally got here down closely on “hum do, hamaare do” – a time period he has been utilizing for the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the duo of company giants Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani.
“The Modi government destroyed the economy with demonetisation and then with GST (Goods and Services Tax). Coronavirus gave it an opportunity to enrich ‘hum do, hamaare do’ at the cost of small business,” he mentioned.
He cautioned the individuals in opposition to Mr. Modi and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal who “are not friends of Assam but of Nagpur and Gujarat. “They do what Nagpur and Gujarat businessmen tell them to do, primarily to keep the people of Assam divided so that businessmen from Gujarat get the State’s wealth, including the tea gardens,” he mentioned.
Assam MP Pradyut Bordoloi had earlier mentioned the approaching Assembly polls can be a battle between “Nagpuria” ideology (allusion to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) and Assamese id.
The Congress can be contesting in alliance with the minority-based All India United Democratic Front and 4 different events. Two new regional events — Assam Jatiya Parishad and Raijor Dal – have additionally tied as much as tackle the BJP-led alliance.
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