Guwahati: The Congress has slammed AIUDF chief Baddrudin Ajmal over comments on the leadership of the Congress party in Assam.
In contrast to him, Assam Congress President Bhupen Borah and AICC General Secretary (in charge of Assam) Jitendra Singh “were not MPs and would require a pass for meeting top leaders in Delhi,” according to a previous statement by Badruddin Ajmal.
In response to Baddrudin Ajmal’s remarks, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh called the AIUDF leader’s statements “inappropriate and completely fake.”
Additionally, he called Ajmal’s statement “blatantly slanderous.”
“The Congress and AIUDF fought the last assembly elections (in Assam) as an alliance. That decision had not been an easy one to take for the Congress,” Ramesh said.
He added: “After the election results it became very clear that Ajmal had worked out an understanding with the chief minister of Assam.”
“The two worked out a relationship between themselves with the sole purpose of maligning and defaming the Congress and its leadership,” the AICC leader alleged.
“Shaken by the extraordinary success of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra as well as that of the Bharat Jodo Yatra-Assam, the chief minister of Assam and Ajmal have mounted this latest attack,” the Congress leader said.
“Ajmal is nothing but a mouthpiece for the BIP like some other parties like the AIMIM. He has nothing whatsoever to do with the UPA as he claims,” Ramesh said.