Guwahati, July 09: The BJP today accused the Congress of neglecting the North East and failing to initiate development in the region during its rule both at the Centre and the state. "We squarely hold the Congress responsible for the under development of North East because the successive Congress governments at the Centre and the state have mostly indulged in misrule and misappropriation of funds during the last fifty years," spokesman of BJP's Assam unit A Singhal said here. The under-development of the region has led to insurgency and unabated infiltration from Bangladesh threatening the sovereignty of the country, he said. Due to lack of minimum infrastructural facilities in the region, the frustrated youth have taken to insurgency with the state government taking no initiative to bring them to the mainstream, he claimed.
Singhal said the BJP-led NDA government had taken several steps to solve the insurgency problem in the region by bringing militant organisations to the negotiating table to resolve the problem. Bureau Report