Not joining BJP: Rana Goswami
Guwahati: APCC president Rana Goswami on Sunday while rubbishing the speculations regarding him joining BJP, stated that he was working hard to strengthen the party’s grassroots across the state.
In a statement, Goswami, a former Jorhat MLA, said that he had come to know from different sources that rumours of his switching over to the ruling party were doing the rounds among political circles and the public.
He said that on the contrary he along with the APCC president Bhupen Kumar Borah and other party leaders were working to revamp the party base and had set an enlistment target of 33 lakh in the state in the ongoing membership drive.
The senior state Congress leader also slammed the BJP-led Government at the Centre for reportedly deciding to stop the free rice distribution to poor families which were initiated due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He further castigated the BJP-led present Assam Government for deciding to issue licenses to open more wine shops across the state and also for making the process easy as well as reducing the fee to obtain a license. “What can be expected from a government that permitted home delivery of three litres of alcoholic beverages during the critical pandemic period,” Goswami observed.