SILCHAR, June 13: In the backdrop of a verbal duel between Gautam Roy and Dinesh Prasad Goala over the rein of Silchar Congress, Sontosh Mohan Dev, who was defeated in general elections recently, clearly announced that he was still very much at helm of affairs with the State.
Dev, for the first time after his defeat, addressed mediapersons yesterday evening to make it clear that although he was defeated in the polls, he was not out of politics.
Simultaneously, making an oblique dig at Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Dev said how Gogoi was admitting that the AUDF was a factor, but when he tried to forge an alliance between the Congress and the AUDF, it was Gogoi who blindly opposed the move.
Addressing a press conference, Dev, in his usual jovial mood, said from now onwards he would engage himself with party works.
He would also sit in the district Congress office daily, he added.
Pooh-poohing the apprehension expressed by Gautam Roy that projects like NATRIP, CCI and power plant by BHEL which were brought to Cachar by the then Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise Minister Dev would now never be completed, Dev said it was a baseless propaganda.
“I had an elaborate discussion with the new Heavy Industries Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh” said Dev and said that once a project was on, there should be no cause of it being dropped.
Dev said he had already met Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for the Silchar-Lumding broad gauge project, surface Transport Minister Kamal Nath for East-West Corridor.
He further took up the matter of night landing at Silchar Airport with Defence Minister AK Anthony.
On the issue of sabotage by the party leaders, Dev said every aspect would be thoroughly checked and the district committee would review the matter in its meeting on Sunday.
Dev, however, said it would obviously take some time. He further said that since he was the Chairman of the party’s state Disciplinary Committee, he would definitely try to zero in on the party colleagues who hatched the sabotage plot.
Indirectly hinting at the State Government’s indifferent attitude towards development schemes he had brought for Silchar from Delhi, he said he was told by the then Central Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy that the Rs 170 crore storm water drainage project for Silchar town had not figured in the State Government’s priority list.
He also alleged that although Goala was the State Urban Development Minister he did not take any interest to enlist the project in the priority list.Dev, in a self-introspection mode, admitted that he had also committed some mistakes which ultimately resulted into his defeat. He said everybody was now blaming Partha Dhar, Dev’s trusted lieutenant, for his defeat but Partha should not be singled out. “I have my own quota of errors”, Dev admitted. THE SENTINEL
Dev, for the first time after his defeat, addressed mediapersons yesterday evening to make it clear that although he was defeated in the polls, he was not out of politics.
Simultaneously, making an oblique dig at Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Dev said how Gogoi was admitting that the AUDF was a factor, but when he tried to forge an alliance between the Congress and the AUDF, it was Gogoi who blindly opposed the move.
Addressing a press conference, Dev, in his usual jovial mood, said from now onwards he would engage himself with party works.
He would also sit in the district Congress office daily, he added.
Pooh-poohing the apprehension expressed by Gautam Roy that projects like NATRIP, CCI and power plant by BHEL which were brought to Cachar by the then Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise Minister Dev would now never be completed, Dev said it was a baseless propaganda.
“I had an elaborate discussion with the new Heavy Industries Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh” said Dev and said that once a project was on, there should be no cause of it being dropped.
Dev said he had already met Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for the Silchar-Lumding broad gauge project, surface Transport Minister Kamal Nath for East-West Corridor.
He further took up the matter of night landing at Silchar Airport with Defence Minister AK Anthony.
On the issue of sabotage by the party leaders, Dev said every aspect would be thoroughly checked and the district committee would review the matter in its meeting on Sunday.
Dev, however, said it would obviously take some time. He further said that since he was the Chairman of the party’s state Disciplinary Committee, he would definitely try to zero in on the party colleagues who hatched the sabotage plot.
Indirectly hinting at the State Government’s indifferent attitude towards development schemes he had brought for Silchar from Delhi, he said he was told by the then Central Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy that the Rs 170 crore storm water drainage project for Silchar town had not figured in the State Government’s priority list.
He also alleged that although Goala was the State Urban Development Minister he did not take any interest to enlist the project in the priority list.Dev, in a self-introspection mode, admitted that he had also committed some mistakes which ultimately resulted into his defeat. He said everybody was now blaming Partha Dhar, Dev’s trusted lieutenant, for his defeat but Partha should not be singled out. “I have my own quota of errors”, Dev admitted. THE SENTINEL
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