Assam CM rubbishes ‘previous’ and ‘new’ BJP tussle; says anybody can be part of get together with missed name 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma dismissed the “old BJP” versus “new BJP” debate and mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and get together president J P Nadda have made it amply clear that anybody can be part of the saffron get together by giving a missed name to attain ‘Congress-mukt’ India.

He made the remarks on Tuesday amidst an obvious tussle between a few of BJP’s previous guard in Assam and those that have joined the get together in current occasions.

Sarma asserted that he himself, his predecessor Sarbananda Sonowal, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu, Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, and former Karnataka chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai had been the so-called “new BJP” individuals.

“There is nothing called new or old BJP. Had the party thought in that way, do you think Sonowal or Himanta Biswa Sarma could have become the chief minister (of Assam)?” he advised reporters right here in response to a query in regards to the tussle throughout the Assam BJP unit.

Sarma was a part of the Congress, whereas Sonowal was with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) earlier than becoming a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

He claimed that the “old and new BJP” is definitely a Congress-sponsored sport as he recalled Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s phrases that the brand new entrants within the BJP have blended in with the get together identical to sugar does with tea.

He additional mentioned that Biren Singh, Pema Khandu or Basavaraj Bommai couldn’t have develop into chief ministers, or Suvendu Adhikari the chief of the opposition if the BJP would have believed on the traces of “old or new BJP”.

Both Singh and Khandu had been with the Congress, Adhikari with the Trinamool Congress, whereas Bommai was within the Janata Dal earlier than they shifted their allegiances.

“The saffron party made two chief ministers in Assam and both of them were ‘new BJP’. BJP is such a large-hearted party,” Sarma mentioned.

He reiterated that the elevating of this difficulty was unlucky, including that “media likes to highlight it, while a few of our own people when they get emotional, sometimes say something on it.”

“This issue does not have any relevance. The BJP wants that no one should be left in the Congress. If there is a Congress-Mukt India, new people will have to join the BJP from there. We in BJP want that Congress should have no existence in India,” he mentioned.

The Assam chief minister added that if new individuals maintain coming to the BJP, ‘sanatan dharma’ will probably be strengthened and civilisation will get bolstered.

“Narendra Modi and Nadda have made it clear that anyone can join the BJP after giving a missed call so that India becomes Congress-Mukt,” he mentioned, including that after Modi got here to the nationwide state of affairs, the problem of “old and new BJP” has come to an finish.

“If the issue is raised, the Congress feels happy as no one from the Congress will join the BJP and there will be people to contest the election under the Congress banner,” he mentioned.

Former Union minister Rajen Gohain, a four-time BJP MP from Assam, former BJP state unit president and former minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya, and former get together MLA Ashok Sarma are a number of the senior leaders who had spoken in regards to the alleged neglect of the previous BJP guard within the state.

Besides Sarma, his ministers Pijush Hazarika, Jayanta Malla Baruah and Ajanta Neog, and several other MLAs had been earlier related to the Congress, whereas just a few MLAs and minister Chandra Mohan Patowari had been with the AGP earlier than becoming a member of the BJP.

NEW DELHI: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma dismissed the “old BJP” versus “new BJP” debate and mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and get together president J P Nadda have made it amply clear that anybody can be part of the saffron get together by giving a missed name to attain ‘Congress-mukt’ India.

He made the remarks on Tuesday amidst an obvious tussle between a few of BJP’s previous guard in Assam and those that have joined the get together in current occasions.

Sarma asserted that he himself, his predecessor Sarbananda Sonowal, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu, Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, and former Karnataka chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai had been the so-called “new BJP” individuals.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“There is nothing called new or old BJP. Had the party thought in that way, do you think Sonowal or Himanta Biswa Sarma could have become the chief minister (of Assam)?” he advised reporters right here in response to a query in regards to the tussle throughout the Assam BJP unit.

Sarma was a part of the Congress, whereas Sonowal was with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) earlier than becoming a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

He claimed that the “old and new BJP” is definitely a Congress-sponsored sport as he recalled Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s phrases that the brand new entrants within the BJP have blended in with the get together identical to sugar does with tea.

He additional mentioned that Biren Singh, Pema Khandu or Basavaraj Bommai couldn’t have develop into chief ministers, or Suvendu Adhikari the chief of the opposition if the BJP would have believed on the traces of “old or new BJP”.

Both Singh and Khandu had been with the Congress, Adhikari with the Trinamool Congress, whereas Bommai was within the Janata Dal earlier than they shifted their allegiances.

“The saffron party made two chief ministers in Assam and both of them were ‘new BJP’. BJP is such a large-hearted party,” Sarma mentioned.

He reiterated that the elevating of this difficulty was unlucky, including that “media likes to highlight it, while a few of our own people when they get emotional, sometimes say something on it.”

“This issue does not have any relevance. The BJP wants that no one should be left in the Congress. If there is a Congress-Mukt India, new people will have to join the BJP from there. We in BJP want that Congress should have no existence in India,” he mentioned.

The Assam chief minister added that if new individuals maintain coming to the BJP, ‘sanatan dharma’ will probably be strengthened and civilisation will get bolstered.

“Narendra Modi and Nadda have made it clear that anyone can join the BJP after giving a missed call so that India becomes Congress-Mukt,” he mentioned, including that after Modi got here to the nationwide state of affairs, the problem of “old and new BJP” has come to an finish.

“If the issue is raised, the Congress feels happy as no one from the Congress will join the BJP and there will be people to contest the election under the Congress banner,” he mentioned.

Former Union minister Rajen Gohain, a four-time BJP MP from Assam, former BJP state unit president and former minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya, and former get together MLA Ashok Sarma are a number of the senior leaders who had spoken in regards to the alleged neglect of the previous BJP guard within the state.

Besides Sarma, his ministers Pijush Hazarika, Jayanta Malla Baruah and Ajanta Neog, and several other MLAs had been earlier related to the Congress, whereas just a few MLAs and minister Chandra Mohan Patowari had been with the AGP earlier than becoming a member of the BJP.