Congress nominee for Rajya Sabha polls from Assam Sanjay Sinh today accused the local media of alienating the state from rest of the country.
"The media in Assam is creating the division between the state and India. Assam is not any particular community's state. It is everybody's state," he said to a reporter's query here on his nomination in Assam when he hailed from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
You (media) are trying to create the division and controversies. Assam is a part of India. You all are separating Assam from India, he alleged.
The country's government or the Congress does not think that way, he added.
Asked which of the burning issues of Assam - infiltration of foreigners, militancy, flood and erosion he would raise in Parliament, Sinh, a Lok Sabha MP from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, shot back saying "the burning issue is India is one."
Sinh's allegations against the media has drawn flack from several quarters, including political parties and various civil organisations.
The influential Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) activists protesting Sinh's remarks against the media, demonstrated in the hotel where he is staying.
The KMSS also protested against Sinh's nomination asserting he will not be acceptable to the people of the state.
Opposition Asom Gana Parishad, BJP, besides youth organisations condemned his remarks.
