Assam’s Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, launched a scathing attack on the Congress party regarding its electoral manifesto, suggesting it resembled a document more fitting for Pakistan than India, asserting it was geared towards societal division rather than unity.
“This is politics of appeasement, and we condemn it. The manifesto feels like it is not for elections in Bharat but for Pakistan,” Sarma remarked to reporters during an election rally in Jorhat constituency.
He emphasized that neither Hindus nor Muslims in the country favored the revival of practices like triple talaq, child marriage, or polygamy, denouncing Congress’s attempt to exploit societal fault lines for political gain. Sarma accused the Congress of harboring a divisive mentality aimed at gaining power.
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Responding to Sarma’s criticism, Assam Congress spokesperson Bedabrata Bora dismissed Sarma as a turncoat incapable of grasping the party’s secular and inclusive principles. Bora emphasized that the Congress manifesto aimed to protect the interests of all sections of society.
“Sarma had been in the Congress for several years, but he could not understand the main ethos of the party. That is why he went to the BJP. Even after being in the BJP for some time now, he still tries to defame Congress to prove his loyalty to the saffron party,” Bora asserted.
The Congress’s manifesto, released on Friday, includes promises such as the right to apprenticeship, legal guarantees for Minimum Support Price (MSP), a constitutional amendment to raise the 50 percent cap on reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and Other Backward Classes (OBCs), conducting a nationwide caste census, and scrapping the Agnipath scheme.
