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.
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.
In a bizarre incident a South Korean national has gone missing in Golaghat district on Sunday.
Identified as IM King Bum, he has gone missing from Lotabari area in Bokakhat. He remains clueless immeditely after he got down from the Guwahati bound bus from Dimapur on Sunday midnight.
He was on his way to Shillong from Dimapur via Guwahati. Search operation is underway in Bokakhat from where he went missing. Details are awaited.
Massive water logging in many parts of Guwahati paralyzes norml life in the city on Monday.
Many roads and by lanes in the city have been submerged in waters following a downpur in the wee hours which lashed the city for nearly one hours.
The worst-hit areas include Chandmari, Anil Nagar, Zoo Road, Nabin Nagar, Lachit Nagar where rain waters wreaked no less havoc in the morning.
Parts of the Guwahati-Shillong Road also came under the rainwaters on Monday morning causing much inconvniance for the people in this premier north eastern city.
The massive waterlogging is resulting in the traffic snarl in the RG Baruah Road, GS Road where normal life remains disrupted. ...
Narendra Modi is believed to have inducted an Assam MP in his cabinet would are expected to take oath on Monday.
According to sources, state BJP president Sarbananda Sonowal has been inducted in the new council of ministers.
Sonowal, who ensured a huge successin in Assam apaprt from defeating Union minister Ranee Narah from Lakhimpur in the recent Lok Sabha polls are set to get a crucial portolio in the new council of ministers.
Meanwhile, all state BJP top leaders along with the newly elected MPs have been camping in the capital to attend the swearing in ceremony.
Chief miniser Tarun Gogoi is scheduled to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing in ceremony in New Delhi on Monday.
Gogoi will be among several other top Congress leaders and chief minister to attend the ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi are alsoscheuled to attend the ceremony where President Pranab Mukherjee will administer oath to Modi as prime minister along with around 50 other ministers.
In yet another setback for the state’s aviation sector, the Indian Airlines will pull out of Tezpur and Jorhat within a few days.
According to sources, a team of the country’s premier domestic career has decided to stop its operation in Lakhimpur after the receipt of the assessment report prepared by a special team. The assessment of the Jorhat and Tezpur operations are underway to pave the way for the closure in Jorhat and Tezpur.
If it takes place, it will further result in the infrastructure bottleneck in the state where yawning communication gap has been a matter of concern.
The dissident Congress leaders skipped their visit to the governor after the AICC announced CLP meet by May 28 to sort out the difference.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was believed to have told Sarat Borotoky that AICC would depute Motlal Vora to attend the CLP meet forcing them to halt for a few days.
Top AICC sources told Assam Times that Vora, Congress treasurer has yet to schedule his much-hyped fence-mending visit to Guwahati. It has become clear that the CLP meet is unlikley by May 31.
In a move that signalls a temporary ceasefire, a group of dissident ministers and MLAs is on a visit to Bihar. Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, the front face of the dissident group is leading the 10...
Amid the height of dissidence, the ministers and MLAs camping in New Delhi to lobby for Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have left the capital on Sunday.
The senior ministers including Rockybul Hussain, Pradyut Bodoloi, Nilomoni Sen Deka left the national capital after Gogoi asked them to go back to Guwahati.
Gogoi in a statement which is available to Assam Times made it clear that he had not invited anybody to New Delhi to lobby on his behalf.
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