BJP ensured Assam’s indigenous legal ownership of land, says Sarbananda Sonowal

Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal highlights BJP's efforts to secure land rights and development for Assam's indigenous people.

GUWAHATI

The Bharatiya Janata Party ensured the legal ownership of land for the bhoomiputra (sons of the soil) of Assam, and secured their future unlike the parties now in Opposition, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal said at a party workers’ meeting in eastern Assam’s Naharkatiya on March 22.

He also said the Narendra Modi government at the Centre was inspired by the governance of Swargadeo Sukapha, the founder of the Ahom dynasty to unite Assam and the region beyond.

Urging party workers to encourage the people to continue to support the vision of a ‘viksit Bharat’ through a developed Assam, Mr. Sonowal slammed Congress for their misrule of more than 60 years.

“Congress governments failed to deliver security to Assam, failed to curb corruption, and failed to usher development for more than six decades. Nothing could be achieved without a popular movement, be it a bridge, or a refinery, or socio-cultural rights of indigenous people of Assam,” he said.

“People were deprived of the welfare that the government schemes were supposed to deliver. Now, under the Modi government, there has been a conscious effort to deliver welfare to the people,” he added.

At another meeting of Asom Gana Parishad, a partner of the ruling BJP in Assam, Mr. Sonowal said the BJP-led government ensured the protection of rhinos by evicting illegal settlers from Kaziranga National Park since 2016 and freed the satras – Vaishnav monasteries – from illegal encroachment.