Aizawl, Oct 27: Ahead of Mizoram assembly polls, Congress General secretary Jairam Ramesh on Friday criticised the BJP for using the regional parties to grab power in the northeast region.

He noted that BJP did it in Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, and now they are trying to apply the same strategy in Mizoram.

The senior Congress leader branded the BJP as ‘ghost party’ and said the power of the ghost over the other two parties, the ZPM (Zoram People’s Movement) and the ruling MNF (Mizo National Front), is well known to everyone as they are the gateway for BJP to enter Mizoram.

Ramesh further said the MNF and the BJP are two sides of the same coin.

The Congress leader also criticized the ZPM for being a party with no programme, no organisation and no ideology.

Highlighting the failures of the MNF government, he expressed shock that, in the last three years, legitimate grants to the tune of Rs 3500 crore grants that were due to the state from the Centre have not been received despite the MNF being part of the BJP led NDA.

Referring to the Congress guarantees for the poll bound Mizoram, announced recently, he said that the guarantees offered a new deal for developing agriculture and horticulture in Mizoram.

It was the Congress party led government that first provided support for growing ginger, passion fruit, oranges, anthurium and grapes.

He highlighted that a Congress government will guarantee that every citizen of Mizoram will get free treatment of up to 15 lakhs of rupees as part of their health insurance and gas cylinders at Rs 750.

“It is only the hand of sensitivity that understands the aspirations of the northeast whereas the BJP is the party that wants ‘One nation, One language; One nation, One culture; One nation, One religion; and One nation, One party’,” Ramesh asserted.

The ruling MNF, main opposition Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM), Congress and BJP have decided to contest all the 40 seats on their own.

Elections to the 40-member Mizoram assembly will be held on November 7 and counting of votes will take place on December 3.

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