Guwahati, July 27: The fragile peace between Dispur and Rajiv Bhawan is once again under strain with the state Congress taking strong exception to the tongue-lashing by some minority leaders in the Assam ministry against the Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind.

Party leaders said the ministers? criticism of the influential minority group has undone the PCC?s efforts to patch up with the Jamiat.

AICC general secretary in charge of Assam, Digvijay Singh, during his recent visit to Assam, had invited state Jamiat chief Badruddin Ajmal for discussions with the party high command in New Delhi.

A PCC general secretary said the criticism may ?sabotage? the party?s bid to initiate a dialogue with Jamiat, which is cut up with the ruling party.

The statement of the minority leaders was uncalled for at a time when the party high command itself was trying to bridge the gap with the Jamiat, he said.

The minority ministers had yesterday accused Jamiat of having a nexus with the AGP and said its attack on the Congress government over the Supreme Court?s scrapping of the IM(DT) Act was politically motivated.

They were reacting to the Jamiat?s demand that all the minority ministers should resign from the government taking moral responsibility for failing to protect the act.

But Congress leaders pointed out that the Jamiat made the demand before Singh talked to Jamiat leaders over telephone a week ago. ?There was no need to respond to the demand now as it is almost a shut case,? a party spokesperson said.

The minority ministers reportedly launched the attack at the behest of chief minister Tarun Gogoi who was not happy with the party?s move to woo the Jamiat after it had ?openly insulted? him.

Recently, Jamiat chief Asad Madani, sharing a dais with the chief minister, had threatened to topple his government if Gogoi failed to improve the condition of the minorities within six months.

With just a month left for the deadline to expire, the party went on an overdrive to woo the minority organisation, much to the displeasure of the state government.

The PCC is also not happy about the way the minority leaders trained guns on party MP Golam Osmani.

?We had told Osmani to refrain from openly criticising the government. And now some members of the government are going to the extent of calling him senile,? a PCC spokesperson said.