Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has made a big claim about the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. On Tuesday (April 9, 2024), during a public meeting in Lakhimpur, North East, he said – When China attacked, instead of fighting, Jawaharlal Nehru had said bye-bye to Assam in his air sermon. He had left Assam. Today the people of Assam cannot forget this.
Amit Shah According to, “What is the change is Narendra Modi’s government. Narendra Modi gave such a rule that China cannot occupy even an inch of our land. The entire Arunachal Pradesh and Assam cannot forget 1962. In Doklam During the time of Narendra Modi, a little courage was taken and it was stopped for 45 days and PM Narendra Modi Forced to go back.”
#WATCH , Lakhimpur, Assam: Union Home Minister Amit Shah says, “…People of Assam will never forget how Jawaharlal Nehru said ‘bye-bye’ to Assam during the Chinese aggression. Under PM Modi’s govt, China couldn’t encroach even one inch of our land…Assam and Arunachal Pradesh… pic.twitter.com/Vb4IcMH4Cp
— ANI (@ANI) April 9, 2024
See, what did Nehru say after the Chinese attack?:
Pandit Nehru had said these things in his speech, know
In his address to the nation on All India Radio on 20 November 1962, Pandit Nehru had said, “Chinese troops attacked us. They entered our country. They came here from the Eastern Province border NEFA and they attacked our troops. After that there was a big war and the Chinese deployed such a big army that they eliminated and suppressed our smaller forces. I want to make it clear to everyone and especially to the countrymen in Assam, for whom our hearts go out at this time. It hurts.” Many people of Assam took this speech of Pandit Nehru in such a way that he (the then PM) had accepted defeat in Assam also.
Amit Shah’s road show to be held in Tinsukia in the evening
Amit Shah will also hold a road show in the evening from Chaliha Nagar to Chirayali police station in Tinsukia district. This city comes under Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is the BJP candidate from there. There is a triangular contest on this seat and Sonowal is facing United Opposition Front, Assam candidate Lurinjyoti Gogoi and Aam Aadmi Party candidate Manoj Dhanowar. Dibrugarh seat is with BJP in the current Lok Sabha. This time BJP has not given ticket to sitting MP and Union Minister Rameshwar Teli from this seat.
Who did BJP field from the place where HM held a public meeting?
BJP has given ticket to sitting MP Pradan Barua from Lakhimpur, Assam. He is trying to reach the Lok Sabha for the third consecutive time, while Congress has fielded Uday Shankar Hazarika against him.