Shillong Feb 17: Congress veteran leader and former Assam chief minister, Tarun Gogoi said that the BJP wanted to capture power by proxy and alleged that the National People’s Party (NPP) is the “B team” of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

“NPP is nothing but the B Team of the BJP,” Gogoi told reporters here on Saturday.

He said that the BJP wanted to use backdoor and proxy war to come to power in Meghalaya by using the NPP.

“Here (Meghalaya) the BJP wants to capture power by proxy and money is being pumped in,” Gogoi added.

He however said that the people of Meghalaya are intelligent not to fall for them.

He also said that a lukewarm response of the people to Amit Shah’s rally in Shillong on Friday spoke for it,” Gogoi said.

Meanwhile, leader of Opposition in Assam Assembly, Debabrata Saikia attacked the BJP for not being able to deliver its promise and spreading lies that Congress has done nothing through massive advertisement in social media.

“During the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the Prime Minister had promised 2 crore jobs in the country. But due to imposition of GST and demonetization, 1 cr people have lost their jobs. GST has posed burden on many industries and companies that have to close their business”, Saikia said at an election rally at Betasing under Ampati constituency

Mukul is pitted against BJP candidate Bakul Hajong from Ampati.

Saikia spoke at the rally in Assamese as 40 per cent people in the constituency belong to Koch and Hajong community.

“They are blaming the Congress for lack of development. Let me remind them that during 60 years of Congress rule, India has developed to a great extent. The contribution of Congress from Independence to India’s growth and success is unimaginable. We have made advances in all sectors, we have made India super power and have made advances in scientific research, while BJP is spending crores to build huge statues”.

Lambasting the BJP, Saikia made an attempt to enlighten the people that Modi had decided to scrap MGNREGA scheme, which provides 100 days of guaranteed wage employment for initiating development in rural India.

“Modi faced criticism for the decision from different parts of the world because MGNREGA is one of the best programmes every started by any government in the world”, he said.

He also cautioned the electorates against BJP, who are all out to tarnish the image of Congress party.

Terming BJP as a threat to the cultural integrity of the country, he said, “BJP wants to create own rules to govern the nation. We should never allow this to happen”.

He urged the people not to be misguided and repose their faith in Congress party and ensure the victory of Mukul Sangma for the sixth terms from Ampati constituency.