Shillong, May 26: The opposition Congress on Saturday lambasted the NDA government that completed four years in office and accused it of cheating the people of the county with “false promises.”

Addressing reporters at Congress Bhavan here, Meghalaya Congress president, Dr Celestine Lyngdoh said that in four years of the NDA government since 2014, people have not benefitted anything except sufferings.

He pointed out failures of the NDA government in providing 2 crore jobs in a year, rise in price of fuel, LPG, and other essential commodities, hardships during demonetization which the NDA government had resorted to in the name curbing terrorist activities and black money, atrocities of women, Dalits, Adivasis and minorities.

Commenting on the Northeast, he said that Ministers of the NDA government came to the Northeast only to inaugurate projects initiated by the Congress-led UPA government, while referring to the inauguration of the Dhola–Sadiya bridge in Assam, inauguration of the Shillong byepass and Shillong-Nongstoiñ-Tura highway in Meghalaya.

“We have not seen results in the ground. If we look at the North East, the industrial promotion policy, BRGF were done away with by the Centre after the BJP came to power. Therefore this is not the fourth anniversary of the NDA government, but the fourth anniversary of betrayal, gives false hope, and cheats the people of the country,” Dr Lyngdoh said.

On Congress-mukt, he said that later the BJP will also say regional parties-mukt, since the BJP wanted everyone to fall in line.

“The Congress will continue to fight and we will come back to power in 2019,” he said.