Guwahati, May 20 : BJP National president, Amit Shah on Sunday said that, the North East India will become Congress Mukt soon.
"By end of this year the entire Northeastern region will be Congress Mukt as NEDA will come to power in Mizoram. Very soon we will have all eight NE states," Shah said.
The BJP National president, who was in Guwahati to participate in the 3rd conclave of North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), a political plateform led by BJP said that, the Congress chief ministers of Northeast India were engaged in corruption and have collected huge proprieties within the region and outside the region.
Shah said that, Congress had ruled in the country most of time after the independence, but the party had used the NE region as vote bank.
"Previous Briefcase politics had now changed to development politics in the region," Shah said.
Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, the BJP National president also prepared strategy for winning at least 21 Lok Sabha seats out of 25 in the region.
Shah also said that, after formation of NEDA, a new development engine has started in the region, NEDA is not a political alliance but geo cultural alliance.
Shah further siad that, the 14th Finance Commission has given at least 258 per cent more funds to NE region in comparison to 13th FC.
The meeting was attended by six Chief Ministers of Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland, Meghalaya, deputy chief ministers of the seven NE states, MPs, ministers, MLAs, leaders of the NEDA partners political parties including Asom Gana Parishad(AGP), Bodoland People's Front (BPF), Ganashakti, and Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT).
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
