Lakhimpur/Assam: Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed on Tuesday that China could not take a "single inch" of Indian land under Narendra Modi's rule, but former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said "bye-bye" to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh during 1962 Chinese aggression, PTI reported.
Addressing an election rally here, Shah claimed that the BJP-led Centre secured the country's borders with Bangladesh to stop infiltration.
"During the Chinese aggression of 1962, Nehru had said 'bye-bye' to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. People of these states can never forget that," Mr Shah said. ""But now, China could not encroach even a single inch of our land. Even in Doklam, we pushed them back."
"Then the Modi government came at the Centre, and the Himanta Biswa Sarma's government here. Now, we can say that infiltration has stopped," he claimed about Assam.
Then he claimed that the previous Congress government in Assam did injustice to the state, and scores of youths were killed in different violent movements and insurgency-related incidents.
"Under the Modi government in the last ten years, peace accords were signed, and 9,000 youths surrendered," he said.
Then Shah said that the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act has been withdrawn from 80 per cent of areas of the state. "They signed the (Assam) Accord but did not fulfil the clauses. We signed the Bodo Accord and within two years, all clauses were fulfilled," he said.
Coming down on the Congress election manifesto, Shah claimed that it favoured the Muslim personal law. "Himanta Biswa Sarma has stopped child marriages. In Uttarakhand, there is the UCC," he claimed.