The centre is closely monitoring the prevailing law and order situation in Manipur. Violence will only compound the problem. Need of the hour is exercising restraint. This was more or less of what a home ministry team said in Manipur on Tuesday when they were on a stock taking visit to the restive north eastern state a month after 9 people died in a orgy of violence after the assembly passed three controversial bills.
The central team headed by Ashok Prasad, told the agitating people to exercise restraint when they talked to them after arriving in Churachandpur in the morning. Here is the excerpt of the speech for the agitating people.
"I can feel their pains and I understand their extend of bereavement. Loss of lives would always be a tragedy more so when it involved those who are plucked away in the prime of their lives. As a brother I share your tears and grief and as a friend I stand by you in your prayers for peace to the departed souls.
These are difficult time that we faced today. A difficult situation that can only be move forward with the help and sympathetic participations of all the stake holders. In fact the relative calm that we produced here today is a tribute to your understanding in the face of great tragedy. I appeal to all of you for continuation of this steering and I particularly the role play by the mothers and ladies of this area who have appeared in the forefront in helping to stabilized and pacified an extremely volatile situations.
I am also grateful to the elders and leaders of this area for their guidance and their directions that they have provided and continue to provide to steer us through this stormy period. I pray to them to continue to guide and advise us as we work toward the speedy resolution of the issue and the avoidance of further tragedy.
After this I'll be interacting with the different stake holders assisting and listening to their words of concerns and I will be taking their valuable suggestions. Some of you have already been interacting with the Central government and I am aware of their concerns and of the commitment of the government in Delhi to join prosperity and peace of this region with the rest of the country. It will be my endeavor to understand the nuances and complexity of the situation so that necessary and effective steps can be initiated at appropriate levels to bring back peace and stability to this area."
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Why the center is taking time in inclusion of Meitie as ST. The isolation of Meitie in the false pretext of general is a major concern in Manipur. Social integration is hampared by this delay.
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.
The stages are set. The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is all set to announce the results of the HS examinations on May 30.
The council told Assam Times that the results of the examination conducted in February and March thus year would be available for the 2,60,000 candidates acorss the state at 10 in the morning.
The results for arts, science and commerce streams would be available on www.ahsec.org from 10 in the morning. This is apart from the result booklets to be available for the schools and colleges in the district and sub divisional headquarters.
Notbly, the Board of Secondary Education, Assam will annunce the results of HSLC examinations on Wednesday...
Racial discrimination towards the north east people refuses to die down in New Delhi where the students from the region have been bearing the brunt.
In yet another case of racial discrimination in the capital, goons in New Delhi assaulted a Nagaland student at a court premises. The incident took place on Friday evening when the Naga student moved the Tis Hazari Court in protest against an incident on Thursday where a Naga girl was beaten up by the goons at a metro station in the capital. The North East Students association in New Delhi will chalk out a series of agitation to protest the recurrence of the incidents.
A sensational revelation seems to have generated no less heat within the Assam Congress these days. That too in the time of deepening dissidence within the Congress legislative body.
Trouble seems to have brewed for a former Union minister who is believed to have been harbouring dissident activities in the state. The former union minister is one among the twenty political leaders who are accused of holding account in foreign bank.
His name figures in a list submitted before the Supreme Court by senior leader Ram Jethmalani who charged him with stashing Rs 3,025 crores in foreign country.
The development assumes significance at a time when dissidence has paralyzed the Tarun Gogoi cabinet...
Four persons were killed at a tragic road mishap in Nagaon on Saturday. The accident took place when a vehicle carrying four persons collided its head on an ASTC passenger bus at Amguri in Kaliabor on the National Highway No 37 where the four passengers inside the Indica car were killed on the spot. They were identified as Prachurya Phukan, Latu Kalita, Mrinal Saikia.
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