Priyanka attacks Modi on lack of empathy for Assam

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    Jorhat (Assam), Mar 21 (PTI) Launching a frontal
attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday alleged he is sad about a
tweet by a 22-year-old woman but not for the flood-ravaged
people of Assam.
A day after Modi raised the toolkit issue and alleged
Congress conspiracy in it at a poll rally in Chabua in Assam,
the daughter of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, lamented
that Modi was silent on peoples' suffering during perennial
floods. Last year's flooding of the Brahmaputra during the
pandemic affected some 2.8 million people.
"I was listening to the Prime Minister's speech
yesterday. He very seriously said that he was very sad about a
development. I thought he would speak about Assam's
development or how BJP worked in Assam.
"But I was shocked to hear that the PM was talking about
a tweet by a 22-year-old woman (Disha Ravi). He said Congress
conspired to finish the tea industry of Assam. He was also sad
about Congress mistakenly putting two wrong pictures on social
media," Vadra said.
She questioned Modi why he was not sad for the people
affected by the flood and the anti-CAA movement, in which five
youths were killed.
"Why didn't you come to Assam when people were drowning?
Why were you not sad when all the big promises by BJP were
not fulfilled? Did you go to tea gardens and talk to workers
about their problems?" the Congress leader asked of Modi.
Talking about the Prime Minister's famous statement of
"double-engined" government in Assam, Vadra made fun of it
saying the state currently has "two chief ministers", in an
apparent reference to rumours of powerful minister Himanta
Biswa Sarma and Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal acting as
rival power centres.
"The PM said you have a double-engine government but
Assam has two CMs. I don't know which fuel runs which engine.
The Assam government is not run in Assam... God save you!" she
added.
The Congress leader also alleged that all segments of the
society, including Youths, farmers and tea garden workers,
have been cheated by the BJP government as it did not fulfil
any of its promises made five years ago. PTI TR
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