ES Reporter 

ITANAGAR, Mar 8: The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC), ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the state capital, Itanagar, said that the PM should address issues related to the Northeast, rather than focusing on gaining political mileage ahead of the assembly elections.
The PM will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate various projects during his visit to the state on March 9.
Addressing the media at the press club today, APCC general secretary Kon Jirjo Jotham said that the visit of PM Modi to Arunachal Pradesh is political, and holds the idea to gain political mileage by false promises. The PM will be inaugurating developmental projects in the state during his visit. 
He said that the entire project that the PM will be inaugurating is the work of the Congress government. The major developmental projects from the construction of Trans Arunachal Highway, Hydro projects, Sela tunnel, Airport, etc, were announced during the UPA government and the present BJP government is just making a follow up work of it.
“There are no new projects provided by the BJP government to the people of the state. Now, the projects which could have been inaugurated much before will be inaugurated by the PM on Saturday. This clearly indicates that the visit of the PM is nothing but a political campaign in the run up to the assembly elections,” he said.  
The APCC rather questioned the state government to show the developmental projects brought during the BJP rule.
While appealing to the PM to keep aside his political agenda during the visit, Jirjo said that the PM should rather focus on addressing the religious discrimination being faced by the Christian community in the state.
He said that the life and freedom of the minorities is no more secure in the entire northeast states of the country. While Christian community in the state is facing problems in building a Church in Tawang, the BJP led Assam government has placed the Assam healing (Prevention of Evil) Practice Bill, 2023.
“The bill not only is dividing the people on the basis of religion, faith and practise but is also a threat to the unity and diversity of the entire NE states. The same divide policy is being practised by the BJP government in the state of Arunachal by not letting the Christian community practise its religion in Tawang,” he added.
The APCC also condemned the secret survey conducted in the state of Assam on the Christian population and numbers of Churches. Such secret surveys are a hidden policy of the BJP government which in the long run will not only create communal disharmony in Assam but the entire NE.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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