Guwahati: Opposition MLAs disrupted governor Jagdish Mukhi's customary address on the first day of the budget session of Assam Assembly on Tuesday.

The Congress legislators protested and marched to the well of the House when the governor reached the fourth page of his 51-page address and read, "My government is serious in meeting its commitment for giving a clean and transparent administration."

The Congress MLAs raised slogans, accusing the state government of not being serious about providing clean and transparent governance as claimed by Mukhi. They held placards reading: "Make Naga framework agreement public", "Order judicial probe into Dima Hasao incident", "Don't harass genuine Indian citizens in the name of NRC update", "Stop deterioration of law and order".

AIUDF MLAs also joined the Congress, alleging deterioration of law and order.

AIUDF member Aminul Islam protested when the governor said, "The Prime Minister has great affection for our state." He claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given nothing to Assam after last year's devastating floods.

Mamun Imdadul Haque Chawdhury, also of AIUDF, accused the government of violating the Assam Accord by welcoming Hindu migrants from Bangladesh. He said the government had only wasted public money by holding Namami Brahmaputra in 2017.

Amid the din, Mukhi completed the formality by reading the last few lines of his address and then left the House.

The governor, in his written address, said the government has been quite successful in counter-insurgency operations conducted under the Unified Command structure.

"In 2017, the security forces apprehended a good number of cadres of militant groups and recovered assorted arms and ammunition, IEDs, grenades, detonators and cash from the militants," he said.

He said the names of many genuine citizens may be missing in the first draft of the NRC but that should not be a concern as the state government is extending full cooperation to the Registrar General of India and his team for publishing the complete and correct NRC as early as possible.

On the recently concluded global investors' summit, Mukhi said it afforded an opportunity to showcase the state's potential before a distinguished line-up of top industrialists and policy makers from across the country and around the world.

He said through its newly created department of act east policy affairs, the government is trying to harness the potential and synergy of working with its eastern neighbours and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).