Modi targets Congress’s ‘harmful regulation’ pitch in Assam, guarantees UCC; Priyanka alleges corruption | India Information

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Modi targets Congress’s ‘harmful regulation’ pitch in Assam, guarantees UCC; Priyanka alleges corruption | India Information

3 min learnGuwahatiApr 2, 2026 12:06 AM IST

Addressing an election rally in Assam Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged that the Congress is promising a “harmful new regulation” that can goal the “majority neighborhood”. He additionally promised implementation of a Uniform Civil Code within the state and claimed a 3rd consecutive NDA win is assured.

Modi addressed two rallies in Assam. In Gogamukh in Dhemaji district, he didn’t identify any Congress chief however appeared to check with a declaration by Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi that, if elected, the get together would introduce laws to penalise hate speech.

Referring to the UPA authorities’s Communal Violence Invoice, Modi mentioned: “Earlier than the 2014 election, the Congress authorities had tried to create a communal violence act. The goal was its appeasement of its pakka votebank. This Invoice thought-about the bulk neighborhood to be culprits and spiritual minorities have been thought-about to be at all times victims. This Invoice was communal by itself. That’s why BJP and NDA didn’t permit this regulation to be made… Now 12 years later, Congress right here in Assam is asserting making an identical regulation. This isn’t an accusation by me. Congress leaders themselves are brazenly making these bulletins. It’s utterly clear that the Congress can now do something to get energy.”

On the identical day, Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally campaigned in Assam. Addressing a rally in Nazira, she accused the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led authorities of corruption and misuse of public assets.

“One household is looting all the things in Assam. And when they aren’t looting, mines, lands and each different asset is being handed over to large industrialists,” PTI quoted her as saying.

She additionally took a dig on the phrase “double-engine authorities”, calling the Assam authorities a “double-ghulami authorities.”

In his rally, Modi referred to varied improvement guarantees within the BJP manifesto, together with 2 lakh authorities jobs, funding in infrastructure and flood mitigation, growth of welfare schemes, and a UCC exempting the state’s tribal inhabitants and areas beneath the Sixth Schedule of the Structure.

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Referring to industrial improvement and ongoing work on a semiconductor chip meeting and testing facility within the state, Modi mentioned, “Assam’s id can be chai and chip too. That is our roadmap for ‘Viksit Assam’. I guarantee you, that if you happen to deliver a BJP authorities once more, Assam will progress extra quickly. That is Modi ki assure.”

Sukrita Baruah

Sukrita Baruah is a Principal Correspondent for The Indian Categorical, primarily based in Guwahati. From this strategic hub, she offers complete, ground-level protection of India’s North East, a area characterised by its complicated ethnic range, geopolitical significance, and distinctive developmental challenges.

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