Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Dushyant Singh Hooda on Monday accused the Assam government of “destroying” the state’s agricultural sector and tea industry during a press conference at the Sonitpur district Congress office, Rajiv Bhawan in Tezpur. Hooda, campaigning in Upper Assam, said the state administration has presided over widespread corruption and failed to protect farmers and tea workers.
Hooda told reporters that this election is critical for Assam and that the whole country is watching how Assam’s voters will decide. He claimed, based on incoming reports, that Assam’s electorate has already resolved to remove the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. He singled out Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, accusing him of leading “the country’s most corrupt” state administration and urged voters not to reward a government he described as mired in corruption.
Highlighting the crisis in Assam’s farm sector, Hooda said paddy production remains weak because double-cropping has not taken root across the state. He blamed poor infrastructure, inadequate irrigation and limited access to credit for keeping farmers to a single crop each year, unlike other regions where multiple harvests are common. He argued these failures reflect misplaced priorities at the state level.
Hooda compared minimum support price (MSP) trends across governments, alleging that during the earlier UPA Congress-led administration MSP rose by an average of 12.9 percent annually, while under the BJP the increase has fallen to roughly 6 percent. He said similar declines have hurt lentil growers, and that farmers’ incomes and indebtedness have worsened as input costs such as diesel and fertiliser have risen faster than MSP.
On tea estates, Hooda condemned alleged mistreatment of workers and announced Congress promises: if elected, a Congress government would legally guarantee a minimum daily wage of Rs 450 for tea workers and introduce an MSP mechanism to stabilise prices for small tea producers.
He also attacked the state of rural employment schemes, accusing authorities of undermining the MNREGA programme. Hooda cited figures for 2025, saying 6.6 million families and 10.9 million people were registered but only 23,900 individuals received 100 days of work-an example, he said, of the scheme’s collapse.
Raising Assam’s perennial flood problem, Hooda said roughly one million people are affected annually, with some 2,000 lives lost and about 8,000 hectares damaged each year. He criticised the government for failing to make Assam flood-free despite earlier promises.
Listing Congress’s pledges, Hooda reiterated five guarantees for the state: Rs 50,000 support for women starting businesses, health insurance of Rs 25 lakh per person, land rights for one million people, and a monthly pension of Rs 1,250 for the elderly, among other commitments.
Concluding, Hooda called for a neutral probe into allegations of land-grab syndicates and other corruption claims in Assam and urged the central government to intervene. He said he was confident a Congress government in Assam this time would have nationwide impact.
Original Source: https://assam.nenow.in/congress-leader-deepender-singh-hooda-alleges-assam-bjp-govt-as-most-corrupt/
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Publish Date: 2026-04-07 12:31:00
