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Amit Shah with party leaders during the rally Wangjing-Kodompokpi ground in Manipur on Friday.[/caption]
Our Correspondent
Assam, Imphal, April 5 (EMN/PTI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Friday lauded the five years BJP-led NDA government for bringing bringing peace and development in the Northeast.
Addressing election rallies in Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, Shah hailed NRC as a major step taken by Modi government to drive out illegal migrants.
Narendra Modi has made the country more secure by becoming the first Prime Minister to destroy terrorist camps across the borders, he said.
In Manipur, hitting out at the Congresss, Shah said the price of essential items had sky-rocketed under the Congress rule, owing to incessant bandhs and strikes, but the incumbent government has made the state blockade-free.
Heaping praise on the BJP-led government in Manipur for its development work, Shah said Chief Minister Biren Singh can be termed "a true chowkidaar" (watchman) as he has served in the Border Security Force.
Shah highlighted various changes brought by N Biren Singh's government in the last two years.
"Today, there is no bandh, no blockades, no millitantcy" in the state and the "sky-rocketing prices of essential household commodities have gone down." He said such changes were made possible because Modi firmly stands behind Biren.
Promising all modes of transportation and connectivity to the landlocked Manipur, he said back in 2003, then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had started the Imphal-Jiribam railroads, but in the course of the next ten years under Congress, it was stalled. He ensured it will be completed by 2021.
He mentioned development of five helipads under the Udaan scheme and introducing Chopper services in the state whose topography consists of 92% hill areas as well as expansion of Imphal International Airport including cargo services.
Alleging Congress and ex-Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh of creating divisions among the people of hills and plain areas, Shah remarked, under Biren's administration, a model form of government has been achieved adding the chief minister had visited 2630 villages in the state under the BJP introduced scheme of "Go to Hills" and "Go to Villages."
BJP President said that though the BJP-led NDA government had started the process of identifying illegal infiltrators in Assam through the National Register of Citizens (NRC), it will send them back in the next five years.
Addressing a rally at Ahatguri, Shah accused the Congress of not doing anything to tackle the problem of illegal migrants in Assam. He said, "The BJP government initiated the process of updating the NRC to identify the illegal migrants.
"Once Narendra Modi becomes the Prime Minister again, we will secure the borders in Assam so much that even birds would not be able to infiltrate, let alone foreigners."
Referring to the Assam Accord, which laid down that any illegal migrant who entered India after March 25, 1971 should be detected, detained and deported immediately, the BJP Chief said that the Congress signed the Assam Accord in 1985, but did nothing till 2014 to implement it.
He said that the Modi government had set up a committee for implementation of Clause 6 of the Accord to ensure the rights of indigenous people in the state. "The committee will submit its report within six months," he added.
Making NC chief's PM in Kashmir comment a major poll issue, the BJP president said though Modi will return to power, but in any case they were in opposition and they go ahead with Abdullah's proposal "we will put our lives at stake" and not allow it "at any cost."
Attacking Congress for raising doubts over Balakot airstrikes, Shah said after Prime Minister directed Air Force to enter Pakistan and destroy terrorists camps to avenge Pulwama attack, "there was an atmosphere of mourning in two places--Pakistan, which is understanable and the other in Congress camp at a time when entire country was celebrating."
Abdullah had recently made a statement that ''Kashmir must have a separate Prime Minister.....Can a country have two Prime Ministers. The Congress is silent on this'', Shah said at an election rally at Ahatguri in central Assam town.
''I want to ask Rahul Baba whether Congress supports this statement of Abdullah. I know he does not have the courage to say anything on this as it requires the guts to speak on it'', he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will form the government again, but if in any case, ''we are in the opposition and they plan to materialise Abdullah's proposal, then 'hum jaan ki baazi laaga denge' (we will put our lives at stake) and not allow it at any cost'', he said.
Asserting PM's biggest achievement has been to strengthen the security of the nation, he said ''There was ten years of Congress government at the centre with Manmohan Singh, whom youhad sent from Assam, as the Prime Minister. There were unabated incursions from Pakistan......jawans were attacked and beheaded but he did nothing and remained silent''.
He asserted that the NDA has a clear and a strong leader in Narendra Modi but the opposition is still not decided who will be their Prime Minister.
The BJP chief highlighted his party's sincerity in implementing Clause 6 of the Assam Accord to protect the culture, heritage, traditions and language of the indigenous people of the state by setting a committee whose recommendation will be put forward within six months.
The youths of Assam had agitated for six years and many students were martyred till the Assam Accord was signed in 1985 but since then the successive governments did not take any concrete steps to implement the various clauses of the Accord, he alleged.
He said in Assam, the Congress and Badruddin Ajmal's AIUDF have an understanding and ''during the day they fight and at night they do 'ILU, ILU' (wording in a hindi film song referring to the expression I love You). It is their old tactics and it is now for you to decided whether you are with the nation or with Badruddin''.
Starting the day with a rally at Bordumsa in Arunachal Pradesh, Shah claimed it was the Modi government that brought peace and development to the northeast, where militant activities were rampant even five years ago.
Terming the people of Arunachal "patriots", he said that this Himalayan state withstood the Chinese onslaught in 1962 even when then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in a statement, expressed helplessness for Assam.