In poll-bound Assam, Shah plays Bangladesh infiltrators card

GUWAHATI:: Union location curate Amit Shah accused Congress of turning Assam into a "safe haven for infiltrators" and launched a drawstring of projects successful the authorities connected Sunday, hours earlier EC announced the assembly predetermination schedule. Shah alleged that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi opposed the SIR of electoral rolls due to the fact that "names of infiltrators were being removed". He said that each infiltrator volition yet person to permission the country. Shah besides targeted Rahul implicit his "chai-pakoda" protestation connected Parliament steps and criticised Congress's objection astatine the AI Summit, alleging specified actions "defamed India globally". He accused the absorption of damaging India's image.

Shah alleged erstwhile Congress govts had siphoned disconnected Rs 150 crore a twelvemonth from wellness fund during their 15 years successful govt and contrasted it with BJP's enlargement of aesculapian colleges, seats and crab attraction facilities. He inaugurated and launched healthcare projects worthy Rs 2,092 crore, including Pragjyotishpur Medical College and Hospital successful Guwahati. He besides virtually opened crab centres successful Golaghat and Tinsukia, laid the instauration for super-speciality hospitals successful Diphu, Jorhat, and Barpeta, and announced a Swasthya Bhawan successful Guwahati and a territory infirmary successful Abhayapuri.

Citing higher organization deliveries and improvements successful babe and maternal mortality indicators, Shah credited CM Himanta Biswa Sarma with bringing Assam's healthcare strategy "on par with Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Karnataka." At BJYM's Yuva Shakti Samaroh, attended by implicit 1.5 lakh youths, Shah called the gathering a "Mahakumbh of Yuvas" and predicted the "largest-ever mandate" for BJP successful Assam. He besides highlighted bid accords with insurgent groups, from Bodo Accord successful 2020 to ULFA statement successful 2024, and said much than 10,800 weapons had been surrendered, bringing an extremity to decades of militancy.