Gogoi kicks off Assam poll campaign
In absence of any top-notch central leaders, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday kicked off the election campaign of the party by addressing the meeting of grass-root level workers of booth committee.
Assam Congress president Bhuwneswar Kalita had invited Congress president Sonia Gandhi to kick off the election campaign by organising grass-root level booth committee meeting but she could not attend due to some prior engagement.
Bogged down by attack of opposition on alleged corruption during his tenure, Mr Gogoi asked the party workers not to be demoralised by the canard being spread by the AGP and the BJP. “Though, media and opposition have already written off us from the contest, we are going to come back for the third straight term,” he said, adding, “Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar won the elections recently by distributing cycle to students but we have given much more than that to our people. Besides cycle, we have given umbrella, cotton and many more things to our people.”
Slamming AGP leader and former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta for attacking him, Mr Gogoi said, “Mr Mahanta does not have any moral right to accuse us as he himself was the king of corruption and black marketer.”
In the same breath he said, “We are the party of poor people. We do not want the vote of rich and black marketer. They have been voting for AGP and BJP. We want working class and poor people with us.”
Clarifying his government cannot be blamed for scam in N.C. Hills, he asserted that opposition is seeking to hang them for corruption as if they were the most honest. “If BJP president Bangaru Laxman was caught on camera taking bribe, Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa is found to have been involved in a land scam. AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta was saved from being chargesheeted in LoC scam by then governor S.K. Sinha,” said Mr Gogoi.
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