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.
As many as 15 dissident MLAs and ministers have been camping in New Delhi to appear before the three member panel set up to deal with the issue.
Health and family welfare minister Dr Himanta Biswa, who has been leading the dissidence against chief minister Tarun Gogoi left for the capital on Sunday evening after he was sought.
Fifteen others including Sarat Borkotoky arrived in the capital on Tuesday evening.
Sources said that consisting of Dr CP Joshi, Motilal Vhora and Dr Gulam Nabi Azad, the three member panel will talk to 5 MLAs and Minister on Wednesday.
The panel is expected to submit the findings by mid-June. Gandhi will take her final call on the basis of the report. ...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is back in Guwahati. Gogoi, who is facing challenge from the dissidents arrived back in Guwahati on Tuesday afternoon.
Sources told Assam Times that the party high command has given him special authority to effect massive reshuffle in his cabinet.
Gogoi who resigned before Sonia Gandhi last week is believed to have been authorized to drop the controversial ministers after June 1.
Sarbananda Sonowal took over as sports and youth affairs minister in New Delhi on Tuesday a day after he was sworn in as minister of state of independent charge.
Sonowal, the state BJP president who defeated Union minister and Lakhimpur Congress candidate Ranee Narah reached the ministry office in the morning.
After assuming charges, Sonowal met the senior officials of the ministry and sought their cooperation.
Sonia Gandhi steps in to mend the deepening differences within the Congress Legislative party.
In a bid to end the dissidence problem, the Congress president has set up a three member panel to look into the problem confronting the Tarun Gogoi goverment.
Consisting of Dr CP Joshi, Motilal Vhora and Dr Gulam Nabi Azad, the three member panel is scheduled to arrive in Guwahati on June 5.
The panel is expected to submit the findings by mid-June. Gandhi will take her final call on the basis of the report.
The decision was taken hours after the APCC scrapped the proposed extended executive meeting slated for May 29.
Dissident Congress ministers and MLAs are all set to rush to New Delhi on Wednesday to intensify their demands.
According to sources, senior Congress MLAs who have been dead opposed to Gogoi as chief minister will try to call on Sonia Gandhi to mount pressure on her to remove Gogoi.
Sarvananda Sonowal took oath as Union minister of state from President Pranab Mukherjee at a function in New Delhi on Monday.
Arunachal Pradesh BJP leader Kiren Rijiju also took in the same capacity in the swearing in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan premises in the evening.
Chief Minister Tarun also attended the swearing in ceremony along with his other counterparts.
There is no trace of the South Korean tourist 12 hours after he went missing in Bokakhat on Sunday night. Security forces are fanning in the entire area at Latabari where he got down from the bus.
Local residents who looked for the tourists recovered his sopples in the morning. A section of the villagers told Assam Times that two leopards have been unleashing terror in the area during the last couple of days.
“We wont find it hard to believe he might be a victim of feline attack,” said a villager who along with some others joined the search operation.
He was on his way to Shillong from Dimapur via Guwahati. Search operation is underway in Bokakhat from where he went missing.
People of all walks of life in Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur are celebrating in a big way when they got to know the ministerial berth for Sarbananda Sonowal.
As the encouraging news started spreading like wildfire on Monday morning, people of all sections of the society thronged the public places to celebrate the big day.
“We have big dreams. We hope a lot. Sonowal will do something forus,” this was what Joganka Das told Assam Times in Dibrugarh.
Hundreds of people in the public places and clubs and BJP offices have organized feast to celebrate the ministerial berth for the state BJP president.
“We will celebrate the ocassion in a big way,” said the local...
In yet another major development, APCC has cancelled its extended executive body meeting slated for May 29 in Guwahati.
According to sources, APCC wil hold the meeting of the district Congress presidents on May 29 instead of the executive body meeting where AICC observers were scheduled to attend.
The state Congress committee has yet to finalise the new date for holding the crucial meeting to examine the reasons behind the poll debacle and to listen to the dissidents who have been replacement of Tarun Gogi’s resignation as chief minister.
In response to the dissidents’ demands party high command asked AICC observers to listen to the dissidents’ demands after Tarun Gogoi sought Sonia...
Its confirm. Sarvananda Sonowal get a berth in the Narendra Modi’s council of ministers on Monday.
Modi himself confirmed it to Sonowal at a meeting in Gujarat House in New Delhi in the morning.
Sonowal is expected to be sworn in as the minister of state in independent charge at the Rashtrapati Bhawan at 6 in the evening.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will attend the swearing in ceremony along with his other counterparts.
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