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.
LAKHIMPUR: The Lakhimpur police have arrested four youths on Monday hours after they allegedly gangraped a 14 year girl in Naoboisa before dumping her on the roadside. Acting on a tip off, a team of police picked up the four youths while another is absconding. Identified as Munindra Sarkar, Ramani Ghose, Gushan Mandal and Manoj Biswas, they were picked up from Kolakhowa area in the wee hours.A team of senior police officers has been interrogating the accused persons who would be produced before the local court seeking them in police custody. The gory incident took place on Sunday evening in Naoboisa area where the minor girl was forcibly picked up from the road to be gangraped by...
LAKHIMPUR: Yet another girl was kidnapped and gangraped before being dumped on the roadside in Lakhimpur sending shock and anger across the state on Monday. The gory incident took place on Sunday evening in Naoboisa area where the minor girl was believed to have been forcibly picked up from the road to be gangraped by five miscreants at night. She was rescued in a critical condition on the roadside in the wee hours. Local residents and police have rushed her to the hospital where she has been battling to survive. Police have registered a case and hunt is on to locate the miscreants. “We are waiting for the medical report and the victim is also unwell. But we have been investigating the...
TINSUKIA: A local court in Tinsukia has ordered ten years rigorous imprisonment of a tea garden worker four years after he raped a girl of his locality. Judge PJ Saikia, further has imposed Rs 10,000 as compensation to the victim failing which he would have spend six more months in the jail. Identified a Krishna Karmakar, the tea garden worker in Silikha Tea Estate was arrested on the rape charge in 2013. The police chargesheeted him in 2015. The court convicted him and ordered RI for ten years much to the satisfaction of many local organizations and individuals who lauded the prompt action of the police men who were probing the incident.
GUWAHATI: Eight people sustained serious injury when a devastating fire broke out a semi commercial area in the outskirt of Guwahati on Monday. The incident took place in the wee hours at Bihapara in Goroimari when a house caught fire because of electric short circuit. Within half an hours the fire spread and engulfed as many as ten shops since many LPG cylinders exploded under the impact of the huge inferno. Local residents in large number came and brought the situation under control in the absence of firefighters. The injured were initially rushed to the nearby hospital to be shifted to Guwahati for better treatment. The extent of damage has yet to be ascertained. But it is said to be...
NEW DELHI: A BJP women delegation from Karimganj on Monday is calling on minister for external affairs Sushma Swaraj seeking her intervention to bring back Mousumi Das who has been jailed in Bangladeshi for possession of no valid passport.Led by Shipra Goon, the delegation has been camping in New Delhi to mount pressure on the Centre to repatriate Mousumi, a student who is said to have eloped with a Bangladeshi national before being arrested on the soil of Bangladesh.
Kokrajhar: The Assam Tribal Sangha demands measures to protect the tribal belt and blocks in the state to meet welfare and development of the tribals. The demand took a formal snap as the organization held its triennial conference of the Kokrajhar district unit at Jharbari High School on Saturday. Sangha president Mahesh Chandra Brahma hoisted Sangha flag followed by 14 primary committees while Vice president of the sangha Bhojnath Narzary paid homage to martyrs on the day. Brahma slammed the state government for not taking any measures towards the tribal peoples. He demanded strict protection of tribal belt and blocks mean for tribal communities, fill up the backlog posts...
GUWAHATI: The United Liberation Front of Asom (I) is still firm on its goal of independence. In a statement released to mark the occasion of the rebel outfit’s Raising Day on Saturday, chairman Dr Abhijit Asom said nobody can belittle the struggle for independence. He said the state and its people needs to formulate a policy to implement “equity” in real sense of the term where minor ones must not feel ley down He said the election process needs a drastic change. According to him, the polling authority should hand over a duplicate or carbon copy of the battle paper to the voters for record. He said it would the electoral system vibrant. On this day in 1979, the rebel outfit formed...
GUWAHATI: Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said some outside forces have been trying to monger trouble in the north eastern region. Without naming anybody at a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday, Rijiju said,”I won't name. But I can tell you that some forces from outside have been trying to monger trouble in the state.” Amid summering protest anger over the speculated move to appease the Naga rebels at cost territorial integrity of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur, the home minister said frame work agreement, if implement, in no way will disturb the territory of any north eastern state. “It deals only with the political aspiration of the people. Territorial...
GUWAHATI: Peace talks with the major north eastern rebel groups are in final stage, says Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju as he was addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday. According to him, most of the demands the Centre has received from ULFA are genuine and could be resolved through negotiation. “We are hopeful. The process is in final stage. We have hiked the stipend amount of the surrendered rebels,” said the Union minister. Raju, who himself hails from Arunachal Pradesh said,”normalcy is back to the north east since we formed the government at the Centre. In Assam peace prevails. Manipur is almost calm and Nagaland is comparatively is quiet.”...
Kokrajhar: BTAD chief Hagrama Mohilary reviewed the development works and implementation of the various schemes meant for Chirang district at a meeting in Kajalgaon on Friday.. Mohilary asked the officers to ensure proper and timely implementation of the schemes and that the district wise meetings would keep an eye on the functioning of the departmental heads in the district levels. "The primary objectives of the discussion is to bring visible changes in terms of development in all the district of BTC area,” he added. He further said that the meeting reviewed and examined the problems and grievances of the government departments as to have inclusive development...
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