The Congress party in Assam on Tuesday hit out at the BJP-led government at the Centre for working with political vendetta.

Congress pointed at scrapping the food park cleared by the UPA regime in Amethi as a glaring example, and then saying that the Northeast had become the worst victim of such an attitude of the Modi regime.

“I have reasons to believe that there is political vengeance behind several acts of the Modi government. Scrapping the food park in Amethi is just one such example. But when you look at Assam and the Northeast, there are numerous examples, especially on the industrial and infrastructure front,” senior Congress leader and former Assam industry minister Pradyut Bordoloi said.

Bordoloi particularly pointed at the Northeast Mega Food Park that is being inaugurated on Thursday by union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal in Tihu, about 100 kms from Guwahati, and alleged that the BJP government was claiming it as a success story without any rhyme or reason.

“I am surprised at the way the BJP-led government at the Centre is beating its drum over the Northeast Mega Food Park that will be inaugurated at Tihu in Assam on Thursday. The reality is that, while it was cleared and established during the UPA regime, the present government is only inaugurating it,” he said.

Bordoloi also accused the BJP-led regime of taking an anti-Northeast stand and pointed at scaling down the special category status of the Northeast states as another example of this. “The BJP made tall promises during the election campaign. But after getting elected, it has only curtailed various schemes and provisions that were applicable particularly in the Northeast,” Bordoloi said.

“The BJP has systematically curtailed schemes and programmes that were meant for supporting the economy of the Northeast. First it withdrew the North-east Industrial Investment and Promotion Policy. Next came the scrapping of Assistance to State for Development of Export Infrastructure and Other Allied Services (ASIDE) scheme and scaling down the special category status of the Northeastern states,” the senior Congress leader alleged.

Bordoloi said the BJP government in April this year scrapped the National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP), under which over 100 small food processing units had come up in Assam alone. “These 100 units, all set up by first-generation entrepreneurs, are now facing uncertainty. The Mega Food Park that union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal is inaugurating two days later was established during the UPA regime. There is no reason claiming success for it,” he said.

The former industry minister also hit out Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his ‘Make in India’ slogan. “The much-touted Make in India concept has become Make in Gujarat now. In December last year the prime minister had described the Northeast as Natural Economic Zone. But with most schemes and facilities scrapped, things are only turning from bad to worse,” he said.

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