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.
BJP state president Sarbananda Sonowal claimed to have got the maximum number of seats in the Lok Sabha polls.Addressing a press conference in Dibrugarh, Sonowal said that the internal assessment of the party suggested that the opposition party have polled huge number of votes in all the three phases of Lok Sabha polls.“I can’t go constituency wise assessment right now. But I can tell you that we will get maximum number of 14 seats,” said the BJP state president.Sonowal further urged the election authority to ensure tight security at the strong rooms so that the verdicts are kept intact.
Assam Congress leadership is confident of ten seats a day after the third and final phase of Lok Sabha polls in the state.Talking to reporters at Rajiv Bhawan, APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita said that the ruling party will not get less than ten seats on May 16.Kalita further denied any adverse impact of dissidence in the polls saying that difference may be there within the legislators. But in the same breath, he said that dissidence have little impact on the polls as the party in rank and file tried to put up a good show in the just concluded polls.
A record nearly 41 degree Celsius heat seems to have turned the state into a boiling pot.There is hardly any hope of respite during the next couple of days if the weathermen are to be believed.The soaring heat and humidity level is attributed to some development of cyclonic winds in the northwest Bay of Bengal, which diverted the monsoon winds.The Regional Meteorological Centre at Borjhar has forecast no change in weather conditions in the next 72 hours.The 38.5 degrees Celsius temperature broke 33 year old record last year. In June 1979, Guwahati recorded a maximum temperature of 38.4 degrees Celsius. But the 40 degree degree Celsius has set new record during the last couple of days. The...
Former minister Prabin Gogoi is critically ailing. The former minister in the Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s cabinet has been suffering from cancer for the last couple of years.His condition suddenly deteriorated on Thursday at the Kushal Konwar Civil Hospital in Golaghat where he has been undergoing treatment.
A soaring mercury level has forced the authorities to keep schools and colleges closed in Guwahati.Kamrup (Metro) district administration has asked all schools and colleges to remain closed on Friday and Saturday because of unprecedented heat.The Goalpara district administration has also followed the suit asking the schools and college goers to keep at home to get rid of the sweltering heat on Friday and Saturday.Notably, parts of Assam have been burning in 40 degree Celsius for the last couple of days. The meteorological centre in Guwahati has predicted hardly any respite during the next couple of days.
Mani Kumar Subba’s condition is believed to have deteriorated during the last couple of hours.According to the sources, Subba’s condition is “very critical” and a team of specialists is closely monitoring his condition. Subba, who has been undergoing treatment of cardiac ailment at the Medanta,the Medicity in Gurgaon is on ventilation support.The independent candidate from Tezpur was shifted to the Gurgaon based hospital on April 6 two days after he was rushed to Guwahati following the complaint of heart attack.
There has been sharp rise in the voters’ turn out in the Lok Sabha polls this time.The initial report of the Election Commission suggested on Thursday evening that the overall turn out is 77 per cent which was 71 per cent in 2009. The turn out figure is expected to increase as the state polling authority has yet to ascertain the figure.
Guwahati BJP candidate Bijoya Chakrabarty on Thursday moved the Election Commission demanding fresh polling at two booths in Guwahati metro.The sitting MP has written to the country’s poll panel alleging anomalies in the electronic voting machines in Hengrabari LP School and Gneshpara booths.
A huge turn out seems to have set record in the third and final phase of Lok Sabha polls in six constituencies on Thursday.The average percentage polling in all the six constituencies stands at 75 per cent when voting formally closed at 5 in the afternoon. The Election Commission would confirm the real figure of turn out only on Friday. Defying scorching heat, voters in large numbers were waiting in huge queues in front of the polling booths to exercise their franchise.Long queues started even before the polling got off to a start in all the six constituencies Nagaon, Barpeta, Guwahati, Mangaldoi, Dhubri and Kokrajhar.Barring some technical glitches, the polling was by and...
Voting has formally closed in Guwahati Lok Sabha constituency at 5 on Thursday evening. The fate of 18 candidates has sealed in the electronic voting machines to be taken out for counting on May 16. The turn out in the city has not picked up as it was anticipated in the city. But the picture in the outskirt of the city is quite encouraging.Barring the city, the overall turn out of voters is set to cross 80 per cent. Voters in large numbers were seen in long queues in a section of polling booth till 5 in the evening.Barring a few incidents of technical glitches in EVMs, the polling was by and large peaceful in the 2345 booths. The crucial seat witnesses a keen contest between sitting...
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