Ex-Assam CM Tarun Gogoi confesses horse trading in 2009 RS polls
Targeting the BJP after forming government in Goa and Manipur by using coup politics, the former Assam Chief Minister on Wednesday said,, "we did it openly, but BJP did it secretly.
“In the Rajya Sabha polls in 2009, two ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Rockybul Hussain had done horse trading and it was done on my consent,” Tarun Gogoi said.
“We had done it openly. But why BJP, who always said Gita-Bhagawat, did it secreatly,” Gogoi said.
The former Assam minister said that BJP has snatched power in Manipur and Goa by using black money.
While questioned about Himanta Biswa Sarma for his activities in the last Manipur assembly election, Gogoi said that, overall result of BJP in Manipur was not due to a single person, it was done by the party’s poll strategy.
On the other hand, Gogoi criticized the BJP led Assam government for failure of completing NRC process in the state and said that, the state government wouldn’t want to complete the NRC in the state.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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