‘A2 Saante Titha Apartments Prodyut Bora Gowahat, Assam 781025." Tol: 91-9436408658, Email: prodyuiassam@gmallcom 18 Feb 2015 Dear Shri Amit Shah ji Namaskar! | am writing to let you know that I have decided to resign from the National Executive Committee as well as the primary membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BIP), effective this day, Should you wish to know the reasons, here's why: NATIONAL LEVEL 1. On the Periphery: Assam the Mindspace of the National Leadership It was with much hope and belief that the people of India gave a decisive mandate to the BJP under the leadership of Shri Narendra Modi i in the last Lok Sabha elections. After 10 dismal years under the Congress, people really bought into the idea of Ache Din Aa Rake Hain. Today, alter 9 months, 1am wondering if Acche Din are really around the comer, specially for my native state of Assam, Let me give you three reasons why I say this: During the Lok Sabha elections Modi ji made waves by announcing that should BJP come to power, Bangladeshis (illegal migrants) have to pack their bags. Assam still wonders what happened to that announcement. For the last couple of years | have been fighting a PIL (No. 401 of 2012) in the Supreme Court on the Assam flood situation. In my petition it is mentioned that in the 84 years between 1912 and 1996, Assam lost 2358 sq km to erosion by the Brahmaputra. Now compare this to the total area of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (1484 sq km) and Mumbai city (603 sq km). In other words, Brahmaputra has devoured land equal to four Mumbais, But is anybody in the Central Goverment even bothered? Each time there are floods in Assam, the Prime Minister or the Union Water Resource Minister would do an pler, get down to meet the waiting Press and announce a''relief & rehabilitation package’. Period! And from then, it would be till the next flood season. ‘This charade has been going on for the last 50 years. Everybody loves a good flood; nobady wants a permanent solution to it. Shri Manmohan Singh ji, former PM and ‘ resident of Assam’, played this charade during his 10 years in office. Granted, Modi ji has been in office only for 9 months, but is there likely to be a different response this April/May when the first flush of floods would hit the state? In December, the Commerce ry directed the scrapping of the North East Indust and Investment Policy (NEIPP) 2007, without putting an alternate policy in its place. According to the industry body FINER (Federation of Industry & Commerce of North Eastern Region), almost Rs. 30,000 crores of prospective investment in the North East has been lost as a result of this move, Did the DONER Minister—responsible for the development of the Northeast—have a clue about this? Is this how the union government proposes to undertake its’Make in Northeast’ manufacturing programme?