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Assam Congress urges President to restrain governor
Guwahati, June 23
Hundreds of Congress workers
on Tuesday held a demonstration in front of Raj Bhavan here and shouted
slogans against the governor, who is holding the additional charge of
Assam governor besides of Nagaland.
The ruling Congress in Assam
has urged President Pranab Mukherjee to either restrain Assam Governor
P.B. Acharya or relieve him of his additional responsibility.
The party alleged that some of the recent statements of the governor
have lowered the sanctity and dignity of the office of the highest
constitutional authority of Assam.
The Congress leaders also sent
a memorandum to President Pranab Mukherjee and said that Acharya has
not only been discharging his duties in Assam like an agent of a
particular political party but "also trying to saffronize" education in
Assam.
"Like on June 20, Acharya while addressing a public rally
in Silchar said that during the 60 years of Congress rule in India, the
party had exploited and looted the country more than the Mughals and
British during their rule in our country," the memorandum pointed out.
"The
derogatory statements against an 129-year-old political party, one of
the oldest political party in the world, is not only an insult to the
martyrs and champions of the freedom movement in our country. The APCC
condemns such unwanted, irresponsible and politically motivated
statements of governor," said APCC spokesman and former Assam minister
Ripun Bora.
He said the acting governor of Assam has been
behaving like a spokesman of an opposition political party by violating
the constitutional conventions.
"The governor has recently
nominated 10 members to the Court of Dibrugarh University in the
capacity as chancellor of the university. However, contrary to the
established norms that these persons should have strong academic and
good social reputation, at least four of these nominated members do not
have any such background except that they all have RSS background," Bora
said.
Since he assumed the charge of the state, the governor has
been at loggerhead with the Congress-ruled state government,
particularly with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.