India, March 13 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged people in Assam to punish the Congress in the upcoming assembly polls for encouraging illegal infiltrators and ignoring indigenous people.

"Congress always encouraged illegal infiltrators and continues to do the same. For decades, the party didn't provide land rights to the indigenous people of Assam and even handed over lands of Adivasis to infiltrators," Modi said.

PM Modi, who began a two-day-visit to the state on Friday, was addressing a public meeting in Kokrajhar virtually from Guwahati.

PM Modi was to attend the meeting, but couldn't due to inclement weather.

"The situation had become very dangerous in districts like Dhubri and Goalpara. I am happy that the present...