Guwahati, 8 February, 2021 (TON): Gaurav Gogoi, Assam’s Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP referring to economy said on Sunday, that Bangladesh is better than India as the present BJP government has failed to deliver the goods in each front.

The statement came in response to PM Narendra Modi’s visit an address to a public gathering in Assam on Sunday.

Gogoi told the media that the Northeast Industrial Policy undertaken by the Congress-led previous UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government has been scrapped by the BJP government led by Modi.

He said, “Modi and present BJP leadership would not accept the contributions of the previous Congress government for Assam, it is understood, but they even forget the contributions of former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government.”

Various syndicates are active in all the sectors-industrial to education to welfare schemes under the present governance in Assam, said the Congress leader.

He said the people who criticize or stand against the government they get harassed by various central agencies limiting the democracy.

Gogoi, son of former Assam Chief Minister and veteran Congress leader late Tarun Gogoi, said that Modi and his government used CBI, ED, NIA, Income Tax Department against the critics.

“People are even not being allowed in making comments on social media, ”Congress’s Deputy leader in the Lok Sabha said that due to the various agitations, including the protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the ongoing farmers’ stir, had claimed the lives of many people, but the Modi government is “not in a mood to listen to anyone’s legitimate demand”.

On Sunday, the Prime Minister addressed a public gathering at Dhekiajuli in northern Assam’s Sonitpur district and laid foundation stone of two medical colleges at Biswanath and Charaideo besides formally launched the ‘Asom Mala’ scheme to upgrade 2,500 km state highways at a cost of RS. 5,000 crores in 15 years.

Where the government is trying to stand upright in different sectors, many issued in the region of Assam have been left unheard, including the flood and the problems of the tea garden workers by not granting them the ST status and the wage too low as well.