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GUWAHATI: Inspired by Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, the Congress on Tuesday launched a yatra in Assam from the border town of Golakganj in Dhubri district near the Bangladesh border to the easternmost tip in Sadiya bordering Arunachal Pradesh.
The foot-march will cover 834 km in 13 districts across the Brahmaputra Valley in 70 days. AICC general secretary and the party’s Assam in-charge, Jitendra Singh, and state PCC chief Bhupen Borah inaugurated the yatra in the presence of scores of senior party leaders. Hundreds of Congress workers and leaders joined the mass connect programme in the party stronghold, Dhubri.
The Congress is eyeing a revival of its support base ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and next year’s rural polls in the state where it ruled for three successive terms from 2001 to 2016. Congress leaders launched a scathing attack on the BJP and Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF, accusing both of resorting to divisive politics. “There is huge enthusiasm among the people. It is a campaign by the people of Assam who feel deceived by the BJP misrule,” said Singh.
Ajmal, who represents Dhubri in the Lok Sabha and caused massive erosion in the Congress vote bank in minority-inhabited districts like Dhubri, in the last one decade, was the target of his attack. He said Ajmal has hoodwinked the people of Dhubri and alleged that the perfume baron has ‘sold off votes’ and bought ‘agar’ (agarwood is used for making perfumes). “Ajmal is working as an agent of the BJP,” Singh alleged.
He accused the BJP of breaking up Assam on the basis of caste, religion and region. “The anguish of the people against the ruling BJP will unite Assam,” Singh added.
Borah said 13 big leaders of the party will spearhead the yatra in Assam. He said from finance to health, agriculture and education, the state is in a mess though the party would want the people to believe otherwise. “The BJP has started trading religion to cover up the failures of their government,” he alleged.
While the BJP took a dig at the Congress for selecting a minority-inhabited district to start the yatra to appease minorities, Borah claimed the Congress leaders started the yatra after offering prayers at the Mahamaya temple and Vaishnavite monastery Ramrai Kuthi Satra. Congress Nagaon MP, Pradyut Bordoloi, promised Rs 25 lakh from his MP fund for the development of the satra.
The yatra will move through Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari, Kamrup, Guwahati, Morigaon, Nagaon, Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar and Dibrugarh before culminating at Sadiya in Tinsukia district in eastern Assam.
The foot-march will cover 834 km in 13 districts across the Brahmaputra Valley in 70 days. AICC general secretary and the party’s Assam in-charge, Jitendra Singh, and state PCC chief Bhupen Borah inaugurated the yatra in the presence of scores of senior party leaders. Hundreds of Congress workers and leaders joined the mass connect programme in the party stronghold, Dhubri.
The Congress is eyeing a revival of its support base ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and next year’s rural polls in the state where it ruled for three successive terms from 2001 to 2016. Congress leaders launched a scathing attack on the BJP and Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF, accusing both of resorting to divisive politics. “There is huge enthusiasm among the people. It is a campaign by the people of Assam who feel deceived by the BJP misrule,” said Singh.
Ajmal, who represents Dhubri in the Lok Sabha and caused massive erosion in the Congress vote bank in minority-inhabited districts like Dhubri, in the last one decade, was the target of his attack. He said Ajmal has hoodwinked the people of Dhubri and alleged that the perfume baron has ‘sold off votes’ and bought ‘agar’ (agarwood is used for making perfumes). “Ajmal is working as an agent of the BJP,” Singh alleged.
He accused the BJP of breaking up Assam on the basis of caste, religion and region. “The anguish of the people against the ruling BJP will unite Assam,” Singh added.
Borah said 13 big leaders of the party will spearhead the yatra in Assam. He said from finance to health, agriculture and education, the state is in a mess though the party would want the people to believe otherwise. “The BJP has started trading religion to cover up the failures of their government,” he alleged.
While the BJP took a dig at the Congress for selecting a minority-inhabited district to start the yatra to appease minorities, Borah claimed the Congress leaders started the yatra after offering prayers at the Mahamaya temple and Vaishnavite monastery Ramrai Kuthi Satra. Congress Nagaon MP, Pradyut Bordoloi, promised Rs 25 lakh from his MP fund for the development of the satra.
The yatra will move through Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari, Kamrup, Guwahati, Morigaon, Nagaon, Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar and Dibrugarh before culminating at Sadiya in Tinsukia district in eastern Assam.
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