issues facing the Northeast for so long. The purpose of visit was evident: strikeing a chord with his audience and finally formulating his government policies to go ahead with its development agenda for the region.

When I heard Modi addressing a mammoth BJP workers’ rally at Sarusajai, he seemed a little bit insensible or less of a wizard than he was expected to be, as he has proved himself everywhere in his each and every party meeting or poll rallies recently. But where Modi seemed to have made a political blunder while addressing the huge gathering there at Sarusajai was his volte face made on the most contentious issue of the land swap deal, also known as the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA). This complete U-turn by him and his saffron party on it has naturally roused resentment among the people of Assam, and has given such political entities as the Congress and the AIUDF a handle on the BJP. It has also provided the AASU, a powerful students’ body in the state, a chance to pick the party to shreds.

Dwaipayan Das Gupta

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