New Delhi, February 15 Trinamool Congress leader Sushmita Dev on Sunday alleged that Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was "jeopardizing" the internal security of the state and disturbing peace with his statements.
Dev made the remark in a post on X, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited poll-bound Assam and launched several projects.
She also mentioned a remark by the prime minister that termed the states of the northeast as extremely sensitive and strategic areas.
"But what he doesn't realize is that the chief minister of Assam is constantly disturbing the internal peace of Assam," she said in a video statement.
"Inciting animosity between two communities is prohibited by law, section 196 of the BNS. But the chief minister of Assam is consistently jeopardizing the internal security of Assam, something that the chief minister of Manipur has already done and ruined Manipur," the TMC Rajya Sabha MP alleged.
"Therefore, I ask the prime minister not to simply pay lip service to the fact that the Northeastern states are sensitive. Those who are disturbing the peace, those who are threatening internal security, are your own people," she said.
"Unless you rein them in, making any runway where fighter planes can land will not be able to stop the Northeastern states from being disturbed. Rein in the chief minister of Assam!" she said.
Modi inaugurated projects worth over Rs 5,500 crore in Assam on Saturday, including a bridge on the Brahmaputra River, an IIM, a data center for the northeastern region, and an emergency landing facility.