HT Correspondent
DIBRUGARH, April 16: Congress leader Pawan Khera on Tuesday criticised the BJP government for misusing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against opposition leaders, who raised their voices against them.
Addressing a press conference here, Khera, senior Congress spokesperson, said, “This election is very important in the country’s history. The people are in constant fear that if BJP comes into power again, there will be no elections held. Democracy will be finished and the Constitution will be changed as per their wish.”
“I appeal to all voters to vote consciously and to vote to save democracy and the constitution. If someone fears them (BJP) and joins their party, they will help him become chief minister. But those who don’t come into their trap, they will put behind bars using ED and CBI,” Khera stated.
Khera said, “If we form the government, then those officers who helped the BJP to illegally use the ED and CBI against opposition leaders will not be spared. We will take action against them, and they will be put behind bars.
The Congress leader asked why the four-lane highway in Assam has not been completed after many years.
“The BJP government promised the six ethnic groups to give ST status, but why have they not been able to tag the communities as ST till date?” Khera asked.
“The wages of tea garden workers have not been increased, which was promised by the government during the last parliamentary election. The BJP government has failed to fulfill the promises they made during the last elections,” Khera stated.
In BJP, only two persons make decisions. They will not listen to the cabinet; only two persons, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, rule the whole party. Now, Narendra Modi is afraid because they are claiming 400 plus seats, but the result will tell us the whole story, he said.
Slamming Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Khera said, “What Himanta Biswa Sarma said is not important for us. When he (Himanta Biswa Sarma) was in Congress, he was a disciplined man, but now he has changed after joining the BJP.”
