Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday accused Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel of opening a “big market of religious conversion” in the state to weaken Sanatan Dharma.
“We have to think about the situation to which the Bhupesh Baghel government has pushed Chhattisgarh. Religious conversions are taking place. A conspiracy is being played to convert tribals in every part of the state. Sanatan (Dharma) is being attacked,” he said while addressing a public rally in Mahasamund city in the poll-bound state.
“We should think about what Congress has given in five years. Has he (CM Baghel) opened any university in five years? In Assam, medical colleges have been set up in each district. There has been no basic transformation in the state (Chhattisgarh). Baghel does drama every time, and he has opened a big market of religious conversion to weaken Sanatan Dharma,” Sarma further said.
The BJP leader also targeted Rahul Gandhi and the Congress over the Ram temple in Ayodhya. “Why didn’t the PMs, under Congress rule, at the Centre build Ram temple and waited for PM Modi ji (to do so)? It is because the Congress has no devotion for Lord Ram and its leaders have always worshipped Babar,” he said.
“I have never seen any Congress leader visiting the Ram temple in the last 3–4 years. Rahul Gandhi goes to temples during elections, but he doesn’t go to the Ram mandir (in Ayodhya) as he is scared that people of Babar will get annoyed and abuse him,” Sarma added.
He also hit out at the Chhattisgarh government over its promise of loan waivers to farmers and said the Congress had made the same promise in the last election but did not fulfil it completely.
