have something to do with their voting record in the last Rajya Sabha elections? And yet, didn't the Party shortlist Shri Ranjit Das for the State Presidentship in the last round? I could go on, but let me summarise that | do not have any faith in the political integrity of many of our MPs and MLAS. And to think that the Party hopes to win the 2016 Vidhan Sabha elections with these fifth-columnists at the helm! I feel sorry for the poor Party cadres in the frontlines who bear the violence of Congress goondas while their leaders at the top engage in machinations with rivals, It is regretable that Congress politicians like Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma have more influence over the affairs of Assam BJP than any of us ever had. 4. The Model BJP Karyakarts hri Himanta Biswa Sarma I don't know how far you are familiar with the chequered career and colourful life of former Assam Congress minister Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma, but here's a small run-down for your benefit. Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma was a student leader of the All Assam Students's Union (AASU). During this time, he also became a money-collector for the outlawed ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom). Caught by the police while on an extortion drive, he was rescued by Congress Chief Minister Shri Hiteswar Saikia who made him join his Party. Now this young man, whe once, shouted Khed, Khed, Bangladeshi Khed (Chase, Chase, Bangladeshi Chase), started parroting Chief Minister Saikia's statement that there are no Bangladeshis (illegal migrants) in Assam. mn is today the owner of a newspaper, 3 television channels, and countless denami in Guwahati; possibly Assam’s richest politician. He has also been named in the Sharada seam and questioned by CBI. (hitpi//indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/saradha-seam- assam-ex-minister-himanta-biswa-sarma-appears-before-cbi/) During the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Shri Sarma had made an inflammatory speech in an election rally that it is not water, but the blood of muslims that flow through the water pipes of Gujarat. In response, the then Party Prabhari for Assam, Shri SS Ahluwalia, announced in Guwahati that all pending cases would be opened against. «Shri Himanta_—Biswa Sarma (hupi/www.telegraphindia,com/1140422/isp/northeasv/story_18263296,jsp). 1 wonder what has happened to Ahluwalia jis pronouncements? Today, far from being prosecuted for the cases against him, I understand that you are considering inducting him into the BJP. | am flabbergasted! Wasn't Shri Sarma the person former Assam Governor Gen SK Sinha was referring to when he said, “I don't want to name, but everyone knows. that a former ULFA person is a member of the Cabinet in. Assam,” (http://indiatoday, intoday.in/story/a-former-ulfa-member-is-now-part-of-gogois-cabinet-former- assam-govemor/1/277892,himl) Please let us know what great virtue do you see in Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma, apart from winning elections by hook or crook, that you are considering inducting him into the Party? Is he going to be BIP’s paradigm of a model Karykaria’? Or do the considerations of winning elections make you overlook a person's antecedents completely?