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\nImphal, Dec 10: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday attacked the Congress saying the Northeast region has been kept isolated from the mainland India by this party thereby making the region underdeveloped.
\n\u201cIn the 60 years of Congress rule in India, we do not see development in the Northeast. There is no road connectivity in the region\u201d, BJP vice president and former Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson Dr. Najma Heptulla told pressman at the Manipur State unit BJP office here. Dr. Heptulla arrived here today on a three-day visit.
\nShe said the Government has done nothing for the youth of Manipur even as they have made the country proud, particularly in the field of sports.
\nThe BJP vice president categorically made assertion that some anti-BJP people are deliberately trying to spread propaganda against BJP for what they say an anti-Muslim party which is totally wrong and destructive.
\n\u201cMy forefathers were used to work with Congress party but I joined BJP as I like the way the party works for the public\u201d, she added.
\nHeptulla also earnestly appealed to the Muslim community of the State not to consider BJP an anti-Muslim party and said that they need to join and work with non-Congress parties for their betterment.
\n A reception function of O. Indira Devi an aspiring candidate of BJP of Thoubal Kendra was held today at BJP office Nityaipat Chuthek Keishampat. O. Indira Devi had joined BJP with 1500 followers. Dr. Najma Heptulla general secy BJP, Sh. Shantikumar Sharma, BJP Manipur unit were also present on the occasion.
\nO. Indira Devi said that she joined BJP because the party can save Manipur from corruption. She will fight the ensuing tenth assembly election at Thoubal. Thoubal is the most backward constituency in Manipur she said. There is no drinking water in Thoubal. No water reservoir. She will make up the deficiencies if she is elected in Thoubal. She wants to change the present culture of corruption and muscle power in election. The Chief Mninister O. Ibobi betrayed the people of Thoubal for the last ten years. But now, the people of Thoubal has wake up and it is the time to defeat the corrupted Chief Minister, she added.<\/p>\n\n