Majuli (Assam): In reaction to the Jorhat Police registering a case against some individuals associated with the Congress's ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra for alleged deviation from its original route, Congress general secretary, Communications, Jairam Ramesh, on Friday said that no rules were broken.
Ramesh claimed that the state government led by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was making deliberate attempts to stop people from joining the Yatra. No rules have been broken. The Assam CM is making all sorts of attempts to stop people from joining the Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra. No one can stop this yatra. We will be in Assam for the next seven days. Let them arrest us; we accept the challenge, the senior Congress leader told ANI on Friday.
Meanwhile, senior Congress MP KC Venugopal said the police can register FIR against anybody but the Yatra will continue till its journey's end--Maharashtra. They (police) can register FIR against anybody. But this Yatra will go to Mumbai. We will fulfil our slogans. We will continue this Yatra with great emotion and strength, Venugopal told ANI on Friday.
Venugopal added that Sarma is scared as the Yatra is going to expose him as the 'most corrupt' chief minister. I think he might be angry with the Yatra as it will expose him as the most corrupt CM of Assam. This Yatra is going to narrate the story of how he is looting the state of Assam. He is scared of this. The public reception to the yatra is also making him scared, the Congress MP claimed.