Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi once commented during an interactive programme with 100 farmers from different parts of the State, declared 2015 as “Year of Agriculture” and further adding that his Government is emphasing on farm mechanisation and the farmers have to adopt modern farming to raise the agriculture production, thus boosting their income.
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Gogoi also said that the present dispensation at the Centre was attempting to replace Nehru’s domestic and foreign policy legacy with its own. “Is the Centre trying to rewrite history by removing the icons of our freedom struggle”, Gogoi asked.
Pointing out that he was ready to take a lead in working out such strategy with like-minded political parties, Mr Gogoi said that the BJP was sure to topple his government with the help of his former minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, but failed to get 35 MLAs.
In a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi regime, BJP leader Shourie, a minister in the Vajpayee government, had said at a book launch yesterday that “there was never a weaker PMO as now and there had never been as great centralisation of functions, if not power, in the PMO as now”.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday urged all secular forces to come on a common platform to defeat communal and divisive forces in the country in view of the growing religious intolerance allegedly perpetrated by the BJP and its fringe groups.
Gogoi said that Prime Minister Modi’s Maan Ki Baat radio programme did not articulate the strong resentment brewing in the country in the backdrop of incidents of violence laced with communal and casteist overtones.
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“PM Modi’s Maan Ki Baat has failed to send a strong message in the backdrop of volatile situation prevailing in the country with incidents of intolerance and hatred on the rise”, he said.
