Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged people in Assam to punish the Congress in the upcoming assembly polls for encouraging illegal infiltrators and ignoring indigenous people.
Modi said that the Congress party always encouraged illegal infiltrators and continues to do the same, and for decades, the party didn't provide land rights to the indigenous people of Assam and even handed over lands of Adivasis to infiltrators.
During his two-day-visit to the state, Modi was addressing a public meeting in Kokrajhar virtually from Guwahati, where he said that the situation had become very dangerous in districts like Dhubri and Goalpara.
He added that the present state government has launched a big drive to evict illegal encroachers and provide land rights to indigenous people.
Modi urged everyone to punish Congress severely in the coming election and send a clear message that there's no place for infiltrators in the country now.
The PM also said that Congress didn't focus on development in Bodoland region of Assam, and that the double engine government of BJP and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has undertaken honest efforts to fulfill all that they have promised.
During his visit, PM Modi will inaugurate and lay foundation stones of several projects worth more than ₹47,600 crore.
