Himanta raising Assam Accord to divert attention from family graft: Congress
The Hindu
Congress criticizes Assam government for diverting attention from family corruption by raising Assam Accord implementation issue.
Opposition Congress on Wednesday (September 18, 2024) slammed the BJP-led Assam government, claiming that Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has raised the issue of Assam Accord implementation to divert public attention from alleged corruption by his family.
Addressing a joint press conference, Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia and Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah said the state government's assertion to implement 57 recommendations of the Justice Biplab Kumar Sarma Committee on Assam Accord has no basis as only the Centre can execute the same.
"CM Himanta Biswa Sarma wants to confuse people of Assam to sail through the 2026 assembly polls. Corruption by his family is a big issue in people's minds. He has raised the Assam Accord topic just to divert public attention from his family," Mr. Borah said.
He said the recommendations of the committee to execute all the clauses of the Assam Accord can be implemented by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and it does not fall under the ambit of the state government.
"Why is he not making it public how the state will implement 57 clauses of the report? The CM is leaving those 10 clauses which are the souls of Assam Accord. There is no word from the MHA also regarding the report and its applicability," Mr. Borah said.
Mr. Saikia said he had asked the state BJP leadership to hand over the committee report to BJP's national president J P Nadda for giving it to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, but it has not been done yet.
The Union Home Ministry had constituted a High-Level Committee (HLC), headed by Justice Biplab Kumar Sarma, for speedy implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord.
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