Guwahati: Union home minister Amit Shah virtually threatened to firmly deal with the orgy of agitations in the state.
In his address at a crowded function in the outskirt of Guwahati city on Saturday without specifying any agitation, he said that the agitation will only create more martyrs and nothing else.
He said that Congress has patronized a number of regional parties to divide the BJP votes in 2021 assembly polls. "BJP will get absolute majority in the upcoming assembly polls. There is no doubt about it, " said the Union home minister.
Shah kept mum on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 which ran into a hail of protest across the state and relented temporarily only during the COVID19 endemic.
He claimed that only BJP government managed to stop rhino poaching and illegal settlement in the Kaziranga National Park. He further assured the people of steps to solve the perennial flood problem in the state if BJP retains the power.
Shah reached the city on Friday night and held a series of meetings with party leaders. He further discussed strategies for 2021assembly polls at a meeting of BJP-AGP-UPPL-GSP leaders.
The Supreme Court is quite unhappy with the alleged unabetted influx into Assam from across the Indo-Bangladesh border.Hearing a set of petitions on Tuesday pertaining to infiltration, NRC, Assam Accord, Citizenship amendment move, a division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice SK Kaul called the alleged non stop infiltration an external aggression.If it is allowed yo continue the state would be overcrowded by those who have no rights to live on the soil of Assam, the bench observed fearing that unabetted infiltration will ultimately result in the erosion of culture.The bench asked the Gauhati High court to expedite the...
A constitutional bench of the Supreme Court will hear a set of petitions pertaining to 13 issues confronting Assam and its people. These include the validity of the Assam Accord, move to amend the Citizenship Act and its impending impact on Assam, NRC, infiltration. A division bench of the country’s apex court comprising chief justice JS Khehar. Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice SK Kaul on Tuesday decided to set up the special bench to start hearing on day to day basis from May 11. The petitioners include Asom Sahitya Sabha, Ahom Sabha, Assam Public Works who moved the court challenging the validity of certain clauses of the Assam Accord 1985, cut off date, Citizenship Amendment Bill,...
Assault on sitting judge in Assam, PPFA demands stern actions against anti-national culprits Guwahati: Patriotic Peoples’ Front Assam (PPFA) expresses serious concern over the Goalpara incident, where a sitting judge was physically manhandled by some lawyers recently and demands stern actions against those unruly law practitioners to maintain the dignity of the Indian judicial entity. The forum strongly argues that the anti-national culprits, who targeted the Foreigners Tribunal member Ajay Kumar Phukan inside his office at Goalpara in western Assam, must be punished to protect the image of judicial personalities among the mass. It may be noted that a group of lawyers, while engaging with...
He is a 20 year old youth whom Delhi police caught charging him with raping and slapping a woman from Nagaland in Hauz Khas village on Saturday.Popularly known as Raja, police arrested him on Tuesday from South Delhi when he was sleeping inside a park. Since Saturday he has not visited his home and only moved from one park to another.The casual utensil washer in the hotels and pubs also sustained head injury when the rape victim hit him with a stone as he was committed the sexual crime. But still he has not visited any doctor for treatment.How the incident took place? It took place at 11.30 midnight on Saturday. The victim and her cousin were on the way back to their home. The 20 year...
Delhi police claimed to have arrested a person in connection with the recent sexual assault on a woman from Nagaland in Hauz Khas village. According to police, interrogation is going on to extract the information of the crime where a person took a 24 year old woman away to a park to be repeatedly raped at 11.30 night on Saturday. Police registered the case against unknown person and during the course of investigation one person was arrested on Tuesday in this connection. Meanwhile, a group of people from the north east staged a silent protest in the afternoon at the entrance gate of Hauz Khas village demanding justice and rehabilitation measure for the victim.
Caught in a barrage of criticism a day after the examination bungling, education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is not at all interested to continue the portfolio.Addressing a press conference in Dispur on Tuesday, Sarma said he would request the chief minister to relieve him of the portfolio saying that he does not want the students to bear the brunt of his conflict with a leading media baron.He strongly denied the allegations of any leakage of HSLC question papers on Monday but in the same breath he said that in a bid to clear the doubts SEBA will hold the examination again.On Monday a few examination centres claimed to have received Assamese and Social Science question papers instead of...
Shurhozelie Liezietsu is taking oath as Nagaland Chief Minister on Wednesday two days after the Naga Peoples’ Front legislators elected the party president as their legislative body chief. Immediately after NPF legislators met Governor P B Acharya on Monday staking claim to form the new government with Liezietsu as chief minister, the date of oath taking ceremony was fixed on Wednesday. Acharya will administer the 81 old Naga politician and author as chief minister at the Raj Bhawan in the morning. His cabinet colleagues are also set to take the oath of office and secrecy in the ceremony. The cabinet colleagues, more or less, would remain unchanged. But the portfolios might be slightly...
An Assam police man is going to set yet another record that could fetch no less pride for the state after clinching a few awards within a short spell of time. He is none other than Manjit Dihingia. Dihingia, a 12th Assam Police Battalion Jawan in Jamugurihat is preparing for 25 hour marathon race with barefoot. He would start the marathon race from Gohpur to Kusumtola and from Kusumyola. His success will break the 24 hour marathon race record by Abhijit Baruah in Jorhat. Dihingia told Assam Times that he is busy with preparation to crack the success and that he has already obtained permission from the authority to allow him for the wonderful task. Dihingia, who has already set a...
The paralyzing political turmoil is nearing an end after a crucial meeting of Naga Peopls’ Front legislators unanimously elected Shurhozelie Lieztietsu the right person to replace TR Zeliang as Nagaland chief minister on Monday.The 81 year old political leader’s name was formally proposed at the NPF legislative body meeting at the State Banquet Hall in Kohima in the morning 12 hours after Zeliang tendered his resignation before governor PB Acharya.Minutes after the unanimous decision, the DAN legislators met and endorsed the decision and drive down to the Raj Bhawan to stake claims to form the new government. Former chief minister Neuphu Rio also tried his level best poaching a section of...
Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang formally is resigning on Monday to pave the way for finalizing a new successor amid the ongoing logjam that paralyzes normal life across the north eastern state.In a statement issued immediately after he arrived from Delhi, Zeliang convened an emergency meeting if the NPF legislative body meeting at the State Banquet Hall In Kohima at 10 in the morning.The meeting is electing Zeliang’s successor. Then this would be followed by the meeting of DAN legislators who would endorse the new chief ministerial candidate.Then the legislators are set to rush to the Raj Bhawan where Zeliang is putting in his papers and his successor is staking claims to form the...
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