GUWAHATI: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday tore into the Assam BJP, equating two of its top leaders with characters from The Mahabharata — the blind king “Dhritarashtra’ and “Shakuni Mama”.
“In the Assam government, there is a Shakuni Mama-like leader and a Dhritarashtra. Both of them and BJP have betrayed the people of Assam,” she said, without taking names but dropping enough hints who she meant.
“Dhritarashtra, who was at one time called ‘jatiya nayak’, betrayed the six ethnic communities whom he had promised inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes list. But did not do so,” she said adding, “the other leader is like Shakuni Mama, who runs a corrupt government that only cheats people.”
Addressing three election rallies at Sarupathar, Koliabor and Batadroba, she said BJP’s only policy was to benefit the party and not people.
“BJP is not a political party in Assam. It is functioning like a mafia organisation running syndicates of supari, fish, coal, land,” Priyanka added.