The Assam Congress on Monday demanded the state government to give relief to all sections of people irrespective of their economic condition and continue relief distribution till December, saying lockdown impact will continue to affect people for months to come.

Assam PCC president Ripun Bora on Monday wrote a letter to chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal with a number of Congress demands and intimating him about reported anomalies in relief distributions among the needy.

This was the second such letter from Bora to Sonowal.

In his previous letter on April 8 he had also made 15 demands and brought up the issue of alleged anomaly in relief distribution.

Although Sonowal has not mentioned Bora’s letter publicly, BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass later told reporters that Sonowal was hurt to receive the anomaly complaints. Bora on Monday lamented that the government did not give importance to his earlier demands.

Bora told Sonowal that 5kg of rice and 1kg of masur per person as promised to people in addition to the food items they receive under the National Food Security Act is yet to reach to everyone.

Among others, Bora demanded the state government to pay the fee of students in all government and private educational institutions upto university level till December, cover the workers of unorganised sectors under government schemes for help, assist those who are stuck in other states, provide diesel to farmers for their farming activities, buy agricultural produce from farmers and waive EMIs of loans taken by self-help groups.

“We hoped that the government would fight coronavirus pandemic by taking together other parties and organisations. But today I am frustrated to some extent to see the way the government is not giving importance to the demands of the Opposition parties,” Bora said.