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 crisis that cripples the Congress legislature party is set to end very soon. The dissident ministers and MLAs seem to have climbed down after holding a series of meeting on Saturday. Talking to reporters at the end of the last session at night, health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, who led the entire camp said that they would abide by the party high command and that they would listen to chief minister Tarun Gogoi. Dr Sarma further said that he and his the ministerial colleagues would quit if the chief minister wants. He said that none of the dissident ministers and MLAs are hankering after power. He...
In a most bizarre incident that tocuhes off a seismic wave of anger, a woman died after she was repeated raped and tortured for 36 hours in Dhubri district. The incident took place at Koimari in Golokganj when the mother of three children was on the way to her husband’s house where three miscreants kidnapped on June 9 and kept for 36 hours. They repeatedly raped her and assaulted her for 36 hours before dumping at the roadside. She was rushed to the hospital. But she succumbed to her injuruies on Friday. Golokganj police have resigtered cases against three accused on the basis of the complaint lodged by the family members. The accused are absconding. Police investigation is going on to...
The Assam government is yet to decide on the permanent memorial in the name of Khagen Mahanta.
Talking to reporters in the sidelines of the funeral function on Friday evening, chief minister Tarun Gogoi said that the decision would be taken due course of time.
“The decision would be taken after proper consultation with all sections of the people. I do hope that the people will help us,” said the chief minister.
Noted singer Angarag Mahanta said on Friday that he has nobody to giude him fron now and onwards.
A day after losing his father and folk song exponent Khagen Mahanta said,” I am shocked. I have not seen him at the end.”
Mahanta arrived in the morning only from Mumbai where he stays with his wife and boy. The cultural icon died of cardaic arrest at his own residence on Thursday sending shockwaves across the state.
The mortal remains of Khagen Mahanta consigned to flames on Friday a day after the folk song exponent passed away at his own residence in Guwahati.
His son Angarag Mahanta lit the funeral pyre at a plot adjacent to the Sankardev Kalakhetra in presence of thousands of bereaved people in the afternoon.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, social welfare minister Akon Bora, forest minister Rockybul Hussain, cultural affairs minister Pranati Phukan, Guwahati MP Bijoya Chakravartty were prominent among those who attended the funeral.
Before that his body was taken from his residence to the Seuj Sangha who he set up a few decades ago in Ambikagiri Nagar.
Then it was kept at the Ravindra Bhawan...
Khagen Mahanta’s sudden is a irrepairable lost on Assam’s cutural front. This was more or less if what a cross section of the people told Assam Times on Friday.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who visited Mahanta’s bereaved family on Thursday apart from attending the funeral function in Panjabari said that Mahanta united the people of the various castes and creeds with his songs.
BJP, AGP, AIUDF leaders also joined the condolence with a number of messages. All Assam Students Union said that a permanent site is necessary to keep his works alive.More and more condolence messages are pouring in from different parts of the state.
Noted singer Khagen Mahanta is no more. The exponent in folk and traditional music of Assam died a sudden death at his own residence in Guwahati on Thursday afternoon. The end came at 3 in the afternoon sending shockwaves across the state.
Popularly known as the king of bihu, Mahanta is survived by his wife Archana Mahanta and son Angaraag Mahanta . Mahanta was born to Harendra Nath Mahanta and Laxmipriya Deviin in Nagaon who showed his musical talent in his childhood. A pall of gloom descends in the entire state following the untimely death of this legend.
The simmering dissidence within the Congress legislature party would soon die down if senior AICC leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is to be believed.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi on Wednesday evening, the AICC leader dealing with the crisis along with Dr CP Joshi and Motilal Vhora said that the amicable solution was in sight and that the party will gear up for the 2016 Assembly polls.
When asked about the fate of the sitting Chief minister Tarun Gogoi, Azad parried a direct reply to it and said,”let’s see what would take place.”
Whatever Azad told reporters in New Delhi assumes significance hours before he was scheduled to meet Dr Sarma, who is camping in New Delhi to meet Congress president...
Karbi Anglong police recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition during a combing operation against UPLA inside a dense jungle on Wednesday.
These include 6 AK-47 rifles, 21 grenades, a pistol along with many other ammunitions-- --seized from Nawang area in the district bordering Meghalaya.
According to information, the UPLA militants managed to escape from the inaccessable jungle where they have been camping for the last couple of months.
Police claimed to have achieved this success a day afte they arrested the UPLA militants responsible for killing of Hamren SP Nityananda Goswami and his PSO Ratul Nunisa.
Assam police and Nagaland police launched the combing operation a week after...
Agriculture minister Nilomoni Sen Deka met Sarat Borotoky Wednesday on fuelling the specualtion of Chief minister’s new measures to contain the dissident ministers and MLAs.
Deka, the trusted minister of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi arrived in Sarat Borkotoky’s official residence at 11 in the morning.
The duo held a close door meeting for nearly one hour in presence of Gautom Roy who is also known to be a close associate of Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Later talking to reporters Deka said that the visit was purely a personal and that they had not discussed anything about the dissidence.
He futher sais that it is for chief minister Tarun Gogoi to take a decision on holding CLP meeting....
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