"Difference between poor and rich is getting wider": Assam Congress leader Pradyut Bordoloi on BJP's rule
Apr 06, 2024
Nagaon (Assam) [India], April 6 : Assam Congress' Nagaon Lok Sabha seat candidate, Pradyut Bordoloi on Saturday claimed that under the rule the BJP, India has become the most unequal country in the world as the difference between the poor and the rich is getting wider.
"India is the most unequal country of the world. Few persons are basically accumalating all the wealth of the people of India and there is a gulf of difference between the poor and the rich are getting wider and wider," said Bordoloi.
He also claimed that the BJP intends to alter the Indian Constitution's basic principles. and this is why it is using slogans like 'Abki Baar 400 Paar' to attain a majority and implement their agenda, which includes removing features such as secularism.
"BJP has got a very nefarious design to alter the basic principles of the Indian Constitution. That is why they are giving slogans like 'Abki Baar 400 Paar'. They have a very definite agenda if they attain this kind of majority, they are probably going to change the entire constitution and they will remove features of the constitution like secularism... They are not going to be successful because the common man in India has realized this," said Congress' Nagaon Lok Sabha seat candidate.
Bordoloi also alleged that the BJP is systematically attacking the institutions upholding the Indian Constitution's democratic character.
"Every institution that ensures that there are systems and mechanisms of checks and balances to maintain the democratic character of the Indian Constitution is being systematically attacked," he said.
There are a total of 14 parliamentary constituencies in Assam. Elections for the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam will take place in three phases on April 19, April 26 and May 7.
Meanwhile, the election for 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases starting April 19. Nearly 97 crore voters are eligible to cast votes in the general election. The counting of votes will take place on June 4.
In the Lok Sabha elections of 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured 7 of the 14 seats in Assam. Both the Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) claimed three seats each. During the 2019 elections, the BJP increased its seat count to 9, while the Congress maintained its three seats, and the AIUDF won a single seat.
