Reprising the attack on the Opposition, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday, August 8, claimed that former President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had shown disregard for the northeast during their tenure.
Even as Prime Minister Modi has received flak for his tepid response to the recent violence in Manipur, Dr. Sarma slammed former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for “abandoning” the northeast during the Chinese aggression of 1962.
“During that time, Nehru never came to Assam. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was sent to Tezpur but he fled that place without talking to the people, saying there was no point [in him staying on] if the Chinese attacked,” he told journalists on August 8.