BJP Legal Cell's complaint against me & fellow colleagues makes them a laughing stock: Upamanyu Hazarika

BJP Legal Cell's complaint against me & fellow colleagues makes them a laughing stock: Upamanyu Hazarika

Guwahati: Reacting to the complaint filed by the BJP Legal Cell on April 7, Senior Advocate and Independent candidate for Guwahati Lok Sabha constituency Upamanyu Hazarika on Monday claimed that the matter to be a laughing stock.

In a press statement, Hazarika stated that in the last one week, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had lied and got caught in the process twice; first in the case of their candidate in Guwahati, where she files a false affidavit which is enough to disqualify her even if by chance, she manages to win the elections and the second is the complaint against him at the Noonmati Police Station on April 7, 2019.

Hazarika further claimed that the entire entry for campaigning in their office is recorded on video, live on Facebook and by various TV channels who accompanied me on the walking campaign from Noonmati to Bharalumukh. "The complaint records that we entered their office at between 1 and 1:30 pm, whereas the Facebook live screenshot attached clearly shows 3:38 pm. Secondly, the video footage is explicit in showing that it is an entirely empty office with no publicity material around and the charge of theft, therefore, is self-evidently false. They have no answer to the charge I made from their empty office, that it’s reflective of their loss of support for having betrayed the indigenous people," Hazarika claimed in his press statement.

He also claimed that If the BJP is opening roadside campaign offices only to accuse visitors of trespass, this only shows how far they are divorced from the people and they believe that the sole route to electoral success is only money and not popular support.

"These two events in the last week apart from exposing the hollowness of the BJP leadership also shows how incompetent they are. Their candidate doesn’t even know what educational qualification and their BJP legal cell convenor, a lawyer, doesn’t even do his homework before filing a complaint. It is a matter of tragedy for the people that politics today is preserve of the incompetent and the corrupt and for which we all have to pay a very heavy price, and for which reason the indigenous today are on the way to become a minority," Hazarika alleged countering the complaint filed BJP Legal Cell.

It is to be noted that on Sunday, BJP Law and Legal Affairs Department Convener Benudhar Nath lodged an FIR against Upamanyu Hazarika and his associates stating that "around 1 to 1.30 pm while our party office bearers went to take lunch Independent candidate for Lok Sabha Election contesting from Guwahati entered into the election office under BJP Dispur Mandal situated at New Guwahati Tiniali of ward no 48, with ill and malafide intention to cause disturbance of peace and tranquility in area along with his 30 to 40 supporters. We also found missing huge numbers of papers, pamphlets, banners and other election-related valuable items from our said party officials. Therefore, we suspect that Upamanyu Hazarika and his associates were involved in the activity".

A case was registered at Noonmati Police Station for case vide no (Case No. 175/19).

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