Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has announced that the state will give Rs 2 lakh for the treatment of 76- year-old Drupad Borgohain, a former Rajya Sabha MP.
He also directed the district magistrate, superintendent of police and Jorhat MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, also from the BJP, to visit him immediately and provide the veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader with all help.
"I came to know yesterday that Borgohain is unwell. I immediately released Rs 2 lakh from the chief minister's relief fund for his treatment. If required, more funds will be given to him for his medical expenses," Sonowal, 54, told PTI.
"In Assam, there are no violent clashes between political workers. Besides, Borgohain is one of the tallest leaders of the Northeast. So it is a small humanitarian gesture from our side," he said.
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Sonowal said he took inspiration from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had said there were no enemies but only competitors in politics.
After the BJP's victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Modi said at a public rally in Vadodara, "There are no enemies, only competitors in politics and democracy".
"That's the beauty of democracy. The strength of democracy lies in taking everyone together," he had said.
On August 6, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley visited the family of an RSS activist who was murdered by suspected CPM workers in Kerala and called it the "most brutal and barbaric killing".
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, however, accused the BJP and RSS of "propagating lies" to "defame" the state.
At an all-party meeting held on August 6, Vijayan expressed concern over the depiction of Kerala as "trouble- torn" and called for coordinated efforts of all political parties to end the violence.
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