Assam most crucial state in northeast, yet...

July 27, 2012 14:10

The Congress had set up a 10-member coordination committee to look into the violence in Assam. Gogoi is also under attack from all quarters for what is being called an inept handling of a sensitive situation.

Assam remains the most crucial state from the point of view of defence of the entire Northeast. All communications to the smaller states of the Northeast pass through Assam, but instead of nurturing the state we have frittered away the goodwill of its people and are more concerned with the migrants who are not even citizens of our country. Read more

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