Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told Rahul Gandhi, the opposition leader in India’s Lok Sabha, to move to Bangladesh. “Come to Assam and I will push you into Bangladesh,” Sarma said in a controversial attack on the Congress leader over migration.
Sarma spoke on Sunday, November 2, at a BJP programme in Shimla called “Save democracy and remove anarchy”. He launched the counterattack after Gandhi criticised Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar at an opposition rally in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan.
“Bangladeshis have no place here. Rahulji, if you care so much about Bangladeshis, go to Bangladesh and contest an election there,” Sarma said. He then told Gandhi: “Come to Assam. I will push you into Bangladesh.”
Sarma also said he and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari of West Bengal would arrange a parachute landing for Gandhi if he came to Assam.
The Assam chief minister mocked the Congress’s political prospects and said it would never return to power. He said governments in India change through votes and that voters use electronic voting machines to change governments.
He said Congress was losing not only on electronic voting machines but also on ballot papers, referring to elections for legislative councils in several states.
Earlier on Sunday, the opposition alliance held a rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan against the Election Commission and the central government. Gandhi demanded Kumar’s resignation and warned that he should be jailed as a traitor.
“We are non-violent. Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are not our enemies. But whoever they are, no one is above the Constitution,” Gandhi said.
The BJP began its political counterattack after Gandhi’s speech.
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