Assam MP lists failures of Himanta govt s 100 days

RegionalAssam MP lists failures of Himanta govts 100 daysGuwahati Aug 22 Publish Date 8222021 120734 PM ISTCongress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora has slammed the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam government for the alleged slow pace of vaccination in the state and jeopardising age-old social harmony by bringing in a cattle preservation lawMaking an analysis of the 100 days performance of the BJP-led government in Assam Bora also alleged that the inter-state border disputes have escalated during the new dispensation and it has gone back on the promise of waiving off the micro finance loan of womenThe Congress leader said in a statement that Sarmas government has made tall claims about success in various fields but practically there is nothing to show as achievements Out of Assams 335 crore population just 20 lakh were fully vaccinated till now while 128 crore people got just single dose and 107 crore people of the age of above 18 years did not get even a single dose of vaccine which is very alarming he saidBora claimed that there were 35 encounters between police and drugs peddlers in the first 100 days of the BJP government in the state which is a serious threat to human rights and against a Supreme Court rulingEven the chief minister has provoked the police to shoot the accused he claimed The former president of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee said the Cattle Preservation Bill 2021 will jeopardise the long-lasting peace and tranquility between the Hindu Muslim and Christians in Assam Under this Act selling of beef is banned within 5 km radius of any religious place But Assam is such a state where almost all villages or areas Hindus Muslims and Christians have been living together since time immemorialAs such there will be not a single place where there will not be Hindu or Muslim within the 5 km radius of a temple or a satra Vaishnavite monastery namghar a kind of Assamese temple he saidBora also termed as gross failure of the Sarmas government in protecting Assams interest with regards to border disputes with the neighbouring states as six Assam Police personnel were killed and over 50 others injured by Mizoram Police in a border clash last monthRepeated tension along the Assam-Mizoram Assam-Nagaland and Assam-Meghalaya borders and lack of progress in the talks over boundary disputes cannot be termed as success as claimed by the Assam chief minister he saidThe Congress leader also said the BJP-led government has not yet fulfilled a party promise during the election campaign that the micro finance loan of the women borrowers will be waived off within one month of forming the government