AIZAWL: The commitment of the Congress to population-linked distribution of Central funds would deprive the tribal people of the northeast of their right to resources, Minister for Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju said in poll-bound Mizoram on October 31.
“By insisting on jitni abadi, utna haq, [Congress leader] Rahul Gandhi has underlined his party’s commitment to allocating funds according to the population size. This means the tribal people across the hills of the northeast will not get anything if the Congress comes to power,” he told journalists in Mizoram’s capital Aizawl.