The Assam BJP has slammed the “communally provocative” remarks made by former All-Assam Minorities Students’ Union (AAMSU) leader Rejaul Karim Sarkar, after formally joining the Congress on Sunday.
The ruling party said that Sarkar’s declaration that he had joined the Congress with the objective of transforming the historic Upper Assam cities of Sivasagar, Jorhat, and Tinsukia into minority-dominated Dhubri is condemnable.
“Such a declaration, made in the presence of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Gaurav Gogoi, has sounded an alarm bell in Assam’s political landscape,” state BJP spokesperson Ranjib Kumar Sarmah said while addressing mediapersons at the party headquarters here on Monday.
Terming AAMSU an organisation created by the Congress, Sarmah alleged that since its inception, the students’ union has functioned as nothing more than Congress’s B-team.
“AAMSU was formed on March 31, 1980 at Jaleswar in Goalpara district at the initiative of the then Congress leader, late Hiteswar Saikia. From its founding president Abdul Hainagiri to the recently resigned Rejaul Karim Sarkar, every leader has used AAMSU as a brokerage platform for the Congress and subsequently joined the party,” he asserted.
Condemning the remarks made by Rejaul Karim Sarkar, the BJP spokesperson further stated that the AAMSU leader’s formal joining of the Congress has once again exposed the true character of AAMSU as the Congress’s B-team.
“BJP has been warning since a long time about Congress being engaged in a deep-rooted conspiracy to alter Assam’s demographic structure through inter-constituency migration. Merely for the sake of capturing political power, the Congress has mortgaged the identity, existence and future of Assam and the Assamese people to migrants of Bangladeshi origin,” Sarmah alleged.
ASSAM BJP CONDEMNS EX-AAMSU LEADER’S ‘PROVOCATIVE’ REMARK AFTER JOINING CONG
