"Manmohan Singh Never Spoke On NE Violence": BJP Spokesperson Makes False Claim
By Nidhi Jacob Bharatiya Janata Party's national spokesperson, Shehzad Poonawalla, in a recent TV debate with national spokesperson for the Indian National Congress Supriya Shrinate claimed that the then prime minister of the UPA government, Manmohan Singh never visited or spoke about Assam or any other northeast state when violence erupted during his tenure. "During the 8-year rule of the UPA government, 8,000 incidents occurred of which 2,000 people of the northeast region were killed. If one word had been uttered by Manmohan Singh then I will change my name," Poonawalla said. "He (Singh) wa...