Gogoi slams BJP's 100-day action plan

Guwahati: Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi took a dig at the BJP-led government's 100-day action plan here on Monday, referring to the absence measures for price control of essential commodities, flood and erosion, and fasttracking NRC update process.
Gogoi said that while the detection and deportation of immigrants from Bangladesh was an important poll plank for BJP in the recently concluded assembly polls, the 100-day action plan did not take the infiltration issue into account.
"We do not see what the government's measures for detection and deportation of foreigners will be," Gogoi said.
Assam shares 263 km of its 4096-km-long border with Bangladesh. About 221 km has been fenced while the remaining stretch is riverine and has a difficult terrain. Earlier this month, chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal asked the Border Security Force to ensure the India-Bangladesh border is sealed on a war footing.
The former CM, however, said a major portion of the international border has already been fenced.
Reacting to the government's release of a white paper earlier this month stating that the government has a liability of Rs 10,000 crore, Gogoi said that the document did not reflect the actual state of affairs. He went on to say that he will furnish his white paper with details on the poor financial health the Congress government "inherited" from its predecessor in 2001. "I left the office in better financial health for my successor," Gogoi said.
Gogoi also charged the BJP government at the Centre of trying to "saffronize" education, saying that it will pose a danger to the social fabric of states like Assam.