India, April 5 -- BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Saturday alleged that the previous Congress governments in Assam had turned Barak Valley into a "crime hub" for vote bank politics. He said people punished the Grand Old Party for its "politics of appeasement of infiltrators" by voting it out of power in the state.

Addressing a poll rally in support of the party's Ram Krishna Nagar candidate in Sribhumi district, Nabin said, "Previous governments had turned Barak Valley into a crime hub for vote bank politics. The politics of appeasement was at its peak as Congress governments were more concerned about infiltrators than the local people."

He said people decided to "punish" the Congress and voted it out of power, and installed a BJP...