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.
Amid a pall gloom, the mortal remains of Amarjyoti Kashyap has reached Jorhat two days after the Dibrugarh university professor met watery grave on the Arabian sea in Gujarat.Hundreds of people thronged his residence as soon as the varsity’s director of the Centre for Social Work Studies Dr Jayanta Borbora, law officer Debraj Sharma and Kaustav Kashyap, the younger brother of the deceased have arrived in Jorhat from Diu with the lifeless professor along with the members of the study team in the evening. Cremation would take place on Sunday morning.The assistant Professor was believed to have drowned in the sea while bathing in a beach near Diu on Thursday afternoon during an outing after...
Dissident Congress leader Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma met chief minister Tarun Gogoi at Koinadhara on Saturday amid speculations his comeback to the soon to be reshuffled cabinet.Dr Sarma, who put in papers before governor refusing to accpet Gogoi as chief minister in August met Gogoi at his official residence at 9 in the morning. The meeting lasted for one hour.This is for the second time Dr Sarma met Gogoi since he resigned as health an education minister. Dr Sarma's loyalists are tightlipped on it.
North east is a storehouse of youth talents. From painting to sand art, from dance to drama not even a single front of creativity is left untouched if one gets a glimpse of a carnival in Guwahati.Organized by Metropolish, the three days event begins today at the Shradhanjali Kanon in the heart of the city which is set to pull huge crowd. All activists of the non governmental organization are busy in the last minute preparations to make the event a grand success.Apart from holding a number of contest and competitions, the youths are exhibiting their creativity from Friday evening. nother focus of the festival is expected to be a Siberian delegation who has already landed in the premier...
If Magh Bihu comes can the battle of birds be far behind? No, it can’t. That’s why, Hajo wears a fresh look a few days before the festival. Women are heavily engaged in preparing sweets and pastries. But their husbands, mostly, are busy with training up the birds meant for the battle, a traditional game of bird fight on the occasion of Bhugali bihu.“We have caught the birds available in this area. The training is underway. From early in the morning we take them out for training. I hope my bird would be able to face any other strong birds this time,” said Jeevan Das who is keeping a bird for the battle on January 15.“ I serve my bird with banana so that it can ensure victory at ease. Last...
Assam BJP will go it alone in the next assembly polls. This was what central BJP leader Mahendra Singh said in Guwahati on Wednesday. The BJP heavyweight who is on a visit to Guwahati told reporters that the party has no plan to forge any pre poll alliance with other parties. According to Singh, the party has every strength to ensure landslide victory in the 2016 assembly polls. He further denied any move to replace state party unit president Siddharth Bhattacharya saying that there is no factionalism in the party.
After Congress, factionalism seems to have surfaced in Assam BJP unit forcing the party top guns in Delhi to rush a senior leader to deal with the situation before it goes out of proportion. Sources told Assam Times that the factionalism centres around the simmering tussle between Sarbananda Sonowal and Siddharth Bhattarcharya. Both the camps have different views on some crucial issues. But the major issue is the move to induct Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and his associates in the party.The state unit president wants the dissident Congress leaders to be inducted in the party. But his predecessor the Union minister is dead opposed to it fearing a dent in the party’s image in the...
Saturday is nearing. Assam Pradesh Congress is gearing up to hold the betrayal protest rally in Guwahati against the NDA government at the Centre.The rally is scheduled at the playground of College of Veterinary Science at Khanapara. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi along with the senior party leaders vowed to make it a success when they attended a meeting at Koinadhara on Tuesday night.Sources told Assam Times that the party will expose the Modi government on the Indo-Bangla land swap deal, the dilution of the land acquisition act to allegedly favour the corporate and construction of big dams.
Policemen are again on maximum alert. Security has been beefed up acting on the inputs that ULFA is trying to strike in the run up to the Republic Day.This was what IGP RM Singh said on Tuesday a day after police nabbed a hardcore ULFA rebel in Nagaon. He said that the revelation came up during interrogation of the ULFA rebel who was dispatched by Dristi Rajkhowa to the district to carry out subversive activities in Guwahati.
NIA director general Sharad Kumar is on a three days stock taking visit to the state amid the probe into the recent violence that left 81 dead on Kokrajhar and Sonitpur. Kumar on Tuesday met Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Director General of Police (DGP) Khagen Sarma, Chief Secretary Jitesh Khosla and other officials to discuss the investigation.The NIA chief is scheduled to visit the violence-affected areas in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts on Wednesday.
Normalcy is back to Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts where NDFB-S rebels killed at least 75 Adivshi people in 5 simultaneous last month. But the situation has improved a lot. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) Chief Executive Officer Pramod Kumar Tiwari said that over 25,000 violence people who have returned to their homes in the last 24 hours with gradual improvement of the situation though around 1.3 lakh people are still lodged in these temporary shelters across four districts. At least 1,29,828 persons are living in 77 relief camps in Kokrajhar, Sonitpur, Chirang and Udalguri districts at this moment.
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