ASSAM TIMES POST
Guwahati : Condemning the earlier Congress governments at the centre of failing to implement the Assam Accord for Constitutional protection of the people of the state and its economic development, Assam Government spokesman Chandra Mohan Patowary Saturday accused Congress and Left parties of attempting to derail the economic development of the state in their political interest.
Industries Minister Patowary addressing the media here blamed the successive Congress governments at the centre of failing to implement the Assam Accord for the last 34 years since 1985 when the historic Assam accord was signed ending the six-year long anti-foreigners Assam movement.
At a time when democratic protests are on in Assam, Patowary asserted, “the Congress and Left parties have no right to destabilise the state and derail its economy progress in their political interest to take the state backwards as they took no progressive measures for Assam during their 70-year rule of the state since Independence.”
“So we tell Congress If they want to do politics, let them go to the people at the time of election. We condemn their attempt to destabilise the state”, the government spokesman asserted.
“Both Congress and Left parties had opposed the Assam Agitation (1979-85). I know it for certain as I had lead it from the front as AASU leader then. These parties have now suddenly become jatiyatabadi (nationalist). Congress had oppressed us then but now saying Jai Aai Axom (hail mother Assam0 in Assembly they don’t become jatiyatabadis”, he maintained.
Continuing his charges, Patowary said, “the Left had also supported the Congress in Delhi and they did nothing for Assam. We urge the people of Assam to keep away from them and their cheap politics and reject them as their their destabilising activities is affecting Assam’s development”.
It was the Sonowal government has been laying stress on imlementation of the Accord and its Clause 6 that provides Constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people.
On the ongoing democratic movement by the AASU and AJYCP and other ethnic community organisations opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act, he said, “we have allayed the concerns of our foreign and domestic economic investors by explaining to them that the youth organisations’ agitation is democratic and the violence and arson have not been done by them but by miscreants and third force”.
“The hesitancy of investors will negatively impact the employment avenue of our youth in the state. We (BJP) have created an atmosphere for investment to take the state forward to its economic development and make it one of the five most developed states of the country”, the industry minister added.
Giving a picture of the economic measures taken by the BJP-led Sarbananda Sonowal government in the state, patowary said the Industries and Commerce Department had organised the Global Investors’ Summit – Advantage Assam in Guwahati on February 3-4, 2018 when a total of 263 MoUs were received, of which 207 MoUs were signed worth Rs 79,000 Crore approximately.
Post Advantage Assam, so far as the Industries Department is concerned, investment received through MoU is Rs 8,871.94 Crore and from outside MoU is Rs 44,592.25 Crore amounting to a total of Rs 53,464.19 Crore.
The total investment received so far by the State is Rs 64,930.44 crores, he said, adding, out of Rs 53,464.19 Crore the investment in the Oil and Petroleum Sector is Rs 42,782.28 Crore.
