Dragging Gaurav's family into 'Pak link' allegation wrong: Priyanka
GUWAHATI: Asking Assam Chief Minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma to focus on jobs creations for ever increasing number of unemployment , Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Friday criticised the “wrong politics” resorted to by BJP leader by dragging the family and children of the party’s state unit president Gaurav Gogoi over his alleged Pakistan link.
In reference to the state’s departed cultural icon the Congress leader called Zubeen Garg "the voice of Assam's soul" and "above politics" and said people deeply associate with the celebrity singer, whose every word had the message of love and unity.
Vadra, the Chairperson of the screening committee for Assam Congress, concluded her two-day Assam trip after holding a series of meetings with senior party leaders from the state in order to finalise the candidate lists for the upcoming assembly elections.
"There are two types of leaders in politics -- one who does positive politics and the other who does polarisation. Gaurav Gogoi is doing the politics of love," she said when asked about Sarma's repeated attacks on the Assam Congress chief over alleged Pakistan links.
Vadra asserted that Gogoi is "a positive person, and wants to bring positivity in politics".
"The way Gaurav and his family are being attacked, I feel it should be an example of wrong politics in Assam and India. Nobody's family or children should be attacked like this. And especially when everything is just false," she added.
Sarma had accused Gogoi, his wife Elizabeth Colburn and a Pakistani national, Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, of sharing a “deeper connection” and that sensitive information from Indian agencies had been passed to Pakistan. The CM had also claimed that Gogoi had surrendered his son’s passport so that the minor could get British citizenship.
"I will say that Gaurav is moving on the right track. That is why such a demeaning attack is taking place," the Congress leader said.
"He is a decent, positive man, and he wants to do a different kind of politics, which is Assam's real feelings... All the charges are nothing new,” she added.
The Congress leader claimed that the politics of hatred is not Assam people's real emotion, and that is why they have associated with people like Zubeen Garg.
Instead of such politics, the Assam CM should speak about the development of the state, the Wayanad MP said.
"Let him speak about what he has done for them. Let him speak about what he is going to do in the next five years. Today's youths want to know it," she added.
The youths and women want jobs, and today's public cannot be misled so easily with these things, she asserted.
"People are seeing how Assam's assets are being handed over to one family and big industrialists. The assets that are being handed over to industrialists belong to the people of Assam. The lands that are being given are people's properties," Vadra claimed.
She appealed to the people of Assam, especially the youths, to be aware and choose a politician that would speak positively, work for them and talk about how to make the state strong.
"You have seen how much corruption has taken place. This corruption is a betrayal of the people of Assam. This money is not taken from our pockets.
Vadra stressed that people also did not associate with Garg due to politics, but because their hearts also carried the same feelings that the lyricist-singer-composer used to speak about.