Guwahati: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on November 27 criticised Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, saying that the latter’s outlandish comments were intended to draw attention away from his poor leadership.
Jairam added that the Assam chief minister frequently mistreated the party’s leadership, who helped him become who he is now.
”Assam CM who was given respectability by 2 of his predecessors, Hiteshwar Saikia & Tarun Gogoi, makes all sorts of offensive comments on his former party & leadership. But he’s 😷 on the killing of 6 people by firing along the Assam-Meghalaya border that has rocked Meghalaya,” Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
”His outrageous remarks are meant to divert attention from his misgovernance,” he said in another tweet.
The Congressman further criticised Sarma for remaining silent on the six deaths caused by the shooting incident at the Assam-Meghalaya border.
Jairam also accused Sarma of “kicking” his old party earlier in the day, saying, “Some like Assam’s chief minister and Bhubaneswar Kalita think life becomes better by kicking the party that made them.”
It’s worth mentioning that Sarma, who defected from the Congress to the BJP in 2015, constantly criticises his former party and its leadership.
Recently, during a rally in the Gujarat election, Sarma said that with the beard on Rahul Gandhi, “He looks like Saddam Hussein”.
“I just saw that his looks have also changed. But if you have to change the looks, at least make it like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel or even Jawaharlal Nehru will do. It will be even better if he looks like Gandhiji. But why is your face turning into Saddam Hussein?” he had said.
It should be noted that this is not the first time the BJP has singled out RaGa, as the saffron party has criticised or vilified him on numerous times for his actions and statements.
When the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” was introduced, in one of these cases, the Sarma said, “He (Rahul Gandhi) should go to Pakistan for the Bharat Jodo Yatra since he wants unification.”
Notably, the yatra arrived in the BJP-run state of Madhya Pradesh on November 23 from the Burhanpur area after finishing its Maharashtra leg.
The yatra is believed to trek 380 kilometres in 12 days across the Malwa-Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh before entering Rajasthan. Many tribal people live in this agricultural area.