Election in Assam got over on May 7 but the Opposition AAP launched a fresh salvo at the BJP-led state government on Tuesday by releasing a booklet on “eight years of failure” of the current dispensation to resolve the state’s pressing problems since taking charge in 2016.

The state AAP’s leadership in company of the AAP’s northeast in-charge Rajesh Sharma released an eight-page booklet here with the photograph of the incumbent chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on the cover page flagging the unfulfilled promises made by the BJP and other pressing issues confronting the state.

The AAP leaders attacked the BJP-led state government for not ensuring the parivartan (change) it had promised in 2016 and not keeping its “promise” of protecting the state’s “mati, jati and bheti”. Sharma said the BJP-led government has “fooled” the people of Assam for eight years and has not done anything to resolve the issues of people in the state.

The AAP press meet on Tuesday saw the Opposition party in election mode the way it targetted the ruling BJP even though the three-phase elections in the state ended on May 7.

The AAP had contested two seats (Dibrugarh and Sonitpur) despite being part of the United Opposition Forum in the state.

A party insider said a trigger for the attack on the BJP government in Assam and chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was the the latter’s efforts to “belittle” the Delhi chief minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and the achievements his government in Delhi. Sarma had said in a Delhi meeting last week said there were mohalla clinics in Delhi but Assam is setting up medical colleges.

He had also taken a dig at Kejriwal for “accepting” the interim bail granted to him by the Supreme Court in the Delhi excise policy case on May 10.

Sarma had said that a person with “self-respect” would not have accepted such type of bail. “ What type of bail... said you are a thief but you go and campaign for a month. Is this called bail? Any respectful person would not avail such a bail, would say I politely decline. What kind of bail is this that you go but return on June 1,” Sarma had said.

On Tuesday, he posted, “I want to tell Mr Kejriwal that Adarniya Modi ji is here to stay for a long time; he should be rather worried about his humiliating bail conditions.”

Kejriwal’s bail is till June 1. He has been asked to stay away from the CMO and the Delhi Secretariat and not to sign
any file.

At the media interaction on Tuesday, Assam AAP unit chief Bhaben Choudhury flagged the deficiencies in the state’s health, education and power sectors in the state, while stressing on the closure/amalgamation of 4000 government schools, “non-availability” of medicines at government heath hospitals and water in Guwahati.