Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday made it plain and simple that his government wants 2014 voter list as one of the supportive documents to update the national registrar of citizens.
Responding to the legislators who asked him to clear his position, Gogoi said that the list would be required if the documents earlier announced by the Supreme Court are not available for an indigenous citizen.
He said that his government has already moved the Supreme Court for consideration which has not so far rejected the affidavit.
PermalinkSubmitted by MAITAOYA RICK on Tue, 11/08/2015 - 00:35
Mr. Tarun Gogoi is going mad because the assembly election of Assam is approaching. He is such a person who knows only vote bank politics. He is a useless Chief Minister of Assam who has no interest to protect the indigenous communities of Assam rather he is ready to protect the illegal Bangladeshis who entered illegally to our land. The vote bank politics of Congress in Assam will lead our state to be part of Bangladesh. Tarun Gogoi will sell Assam to Bangladesh and he along with his family will settlen down in London.
The All Assam Students’ Union is holding a statwide protest on Tuesday reiterating the demand for constitutional safeguard for the indigenous people.Hundreds of activists of the state’s influential student body thronged the district and sub divisional headquarters at 11 in the morning and started staging dharna.The protesters in Guwahati told Assam Times that they won’t compromise the demand which they have been raising the last few decades.“We won’t bend. The demand is not new. Constitutional safeguard must be there t protect the indigenous people,” said Ravi Saikia who is holding dharna along with others in Guwahati.Another student Anamika Gogoi told Assam Times that over the years, the...
The death of swine flu patient in Jorhat has forced the Assam government to intensify the measures to curb the killer disease in the state.The authorities have asked the doctors to provide the best possible treatment to ten others who have been undergoing treatment.Official sources told Assam Times that the state till date has ten people who have already tested positive. The state registered the first one H1N1 death on Monday when a 59 year old man died in the wee hours at the Jorhat Medical College Hospital.The government further has appealed to the people to remain alert these days.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is tabling the state budget for 2015-16 on the floor of the Assembly on Tuesday.Gogoi, who is holding the finance portfolio is giving the people a rare dose of good news in his last state budget of his third straight term.The entire budgetary exercise is being made keeping in mind the assembly polls early next year. In March, 2016 Gogoi only table the vote on account in view of the assembly polls.
Speaker Pranab Kumar Gogoi suspended MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed from the Assembly on Monday for refusing to stop asking supplementary questions even after the Zero Hour.Gogoi repeatedly asked the MLA to stop the supplementary question after the Zero Hour. But he refused to halt. When Ahmed continued to raise supplementary questions beyond, the Speaker suspended him for the day.
The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) has show-caused Siddique Ali Ahmed seeking an explanation for his statement.The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has also served a show-cause notice to the legislator asking him to explain his position within three days.Party leaders told Assam Times that he might face action if he fails to substantiate the allegation.The former minister claimed to have requested Gogoi to take up the matter with the Nagaland government after he gathered prior information on the incident.
The Assam government felt the heat of the Dimapur incident on the floor of the House on Monday.Much to a major surprise, Congress legislator Siddeque Ahmed on Sunday disclosed to have informed chief minister Tarun Gogoi that he had prior information on the incident on March 5.Ahmed further claimed to have requested Gogoi to take up the matter with the Nagaland government.He alleged that Gogoi denied the possibility which was why the incident took place. Thus, he blamed it all on the chief minister.Trouble erupted on the floor as soon as the Opposition MLAs demanded a clarification from the government over the statement of Siddeque Ahmed.The government spokesman Rockybul Hussain, however,...
Directorate of Handloom & Textiles, Assam is going to organize a National Level Handloom Expo under North Eastern Region Textile Promotion Scheme.The expo will be held at the playground of Assam Engineering Institute, Chandmari, Guwahati from March 10 to 23 sin collaboration with the Development Commissioner for Handlooms, Govt. of India, Ministry of Textiles, New Delhi. The inauguration ceremony will be held on 10th March at 5 PM at the said venue.
The recent assault on the Assamese student in Delhi mires into controversy with police refusing it to call it case of racial attack.According to Delhi police, a few local residents in Amar Colony area assaulted Arbazuddin as he was mistakenly trying to unlock a door of a someone else’s door in an inebriated condition.Sources told Assam Times that Delhi policemen are on the look out of the goons who beat up the student from Guwahati.But his family members have been claiming it a case of racial attack on the north east student who is undergoing treatment at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. after he suffered fractures in his limbs and jaw.The incident took place March 5 wee hours when he tried to...
The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) will stage a state-wide protest on Tuesday demanding constitutional safeguard for the indigenous people. AASU Advisor Dr Samujjal Kumar Bhattacharya told reporters in Guwhati on Sunday that they would not compromise constitutional safeguard for the indigenous people as per the Assam Accord.“With this state wide protest, we once again want to mount pressure on the government to listen to us seriously,”said Dr Bhattacharya..He further accused the state government of trying to confuse the people on the issue of constitutional safeguards to the indigenous people citing an absence of a proper definition of the Assamese."It is not the question of...
Security forces arrested a Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam militant from Dhubri on Sunday.He was nabbed during a joint operation by the Army and police forces from Baijer Alga village in Dhubri district in the morning.Security forces further claimed to have seized a 9 mm pistol along with four rounds of ammunition from his possession.
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