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.
The death of Dr Sarita Toshniwal seems to have been shrouded in mystery. Her father Kishanlal Agarwalla, a businessman in Sivasagar have alleged that his daughter was murdered.But no outside person is allowed to come inside the duty room where she was found dead with her throat cut with surgical knife.A section of classmates found it strange to have found that how somebody could kill her inside the room attached to the ICU.Police sources refused to confirm anything without a thorough probe.Meanwhile, forensic team has collected some crucial evidence from the spot for probe.
Doctors at the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh have threatened to sit in strike their safety and security in the duty hours.Talking to Assam Times, the junior doctors said that if the Sarita Toshniwal case is murder then it is a fit case of security lapse.They further demanded a thorough probe into the entire incident of how a doctor on duty was allegedly murdered with a surgical knife by cutting in her throat. That too in duty hours at the intensive care unit.Some others slammed the college authority for deploying her alone at the ICU at night. “If the college authority does not listen to us, we have no option but to sit in strike immediately,” told a doctor to Assam Times.
The mysterious death of a doctor at her duty room in the Assam Medical College Hospital oozes no less shock and sensation in Dibrugarh on Friday.Identified as Dr Sarita Toshniwal from first year post graduate student of gynecology department was found dead in the wee hours.The body which was found lying on a bed has a grave cut marks with a surgical knife in the neck. The knife was recovered from the injury portion of her neck.The incident came to light when a nurse went to the duty room attached to the ICU to met her at 7-30 in the morning.Senior police officials arrived in the spot and gathered preliminary inputs in this connection.Sarita’s who is a businessman by profession in Sivasagar...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday announced a special force in the vulnerable areas of BTAD.Addressing a press conference, Gogoi said that the force would be raised with the help of the local residents to ensure the safety and security of the people.He said another special force would be raised to seized illegal firearms in the BTAD areas.According to Gogoi, 12 people have been remaining traceless since the incidents of attack.Gogoi, however, added that section of the local residents in Naranguri area who survived the attack jumped into the Beki river on Friday night.Apart from these, Gogoi has written to the Centre asking for 50 more additional forces to be deployed in BTAD which...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday claimed to have brought the situation under control in BTAD areas where at least 40 people were killed by unidentified miscreants.Addressing a press conference in Dispur, Gogoi said,” the situation is by and large under control. But feeling of insecurity still grips the people.”He said that the government has confirmed report of 39 deaths and that 22 people have been arrested so far in this connection.“We would contact the SOS village to adopt the children who lost their parents in the bloodletting,” said Gogoi who was shocked to have seen the children of the victims’ family members in Narayannguri and Balapara.
Men-elephant conflict refuses to die down in Assam. After a brief lull, two women lost their lives in two different incidents of attack on men on Thursday.The first incident took place in Guwahati where a hard of wild elephants trampled to death a 50 year old women after damaging her house.The shocking incident took place at Botahghuli area in the city in the wee hours were the elephants suddenly barged into a hut and damaged it after trampling to death a woman who was identified as Phuljan Bibi.In yet another incident on the same hour, wild elephants killed a 65 year old woman at Kothiatoli in Nagaon district.
A truck driver sustained serious injury when his vehicle rammed into a train in Tinsukia on Wednesday.The incident took place at Panitola in the midnight when the speeding truck rammed into the Tinsukia-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express after the driver lost his control.The seriously injured driver was sent to the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh.Three coaches of the luxurious train were damaged in the incident and a few passengers sustained minor injury.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi reviewed the state’s law and order at a high level meeting with Chief Secretary and DGP at Koinadhora in Guwahati on Wednesday.Hours after his BTAD visit, Gogoi talked to chief secretary JS Khosla and DGP Khagen Sarma asking them to be prepared to face any eventuality in BTAD areas after May 16.He further asked the top police officials to keep a close watch on the day to day happenings in the trouble torn BTAD areas where violence is likely to recur May 16.
RASHMITA GOGOI FROM NEW DELHI: The BTAD bloodbath seems to have erupted anger and protest in New Delhi. Hundreds of students staged dharna in front of the Assam House on Wednesday in protest against the bloodletting in BTAD.Holding play cards and banners, the students from JNU and Delhi University thronged in front of Assam Hose and shouted slogans demanding measures to contain the situation.Further, they demanded exemplary punishment for the perpetrators in the carnage where over 50 people were killed and 2000 rendered homeless.
Repolling has passed off peacefully in three booths in Karimganj on Wednesday. The turn out was moderate possibly because of the incessant rains that lashed the entire area from the morning.Initially, the polling booths had no crowds. The numbers of voters increased towards the noon. Voters in large number had to wait outside the booths to exercise their franchise till 5 in the evening.Repolling took place at Haricharan Mahamaya LP School, Kaberiband LP School and Matijhuri Girls’ HS School where large scale rigging was alleged.Notably, BJP alleged large scale rigging in these three booths in Karimganj in the second phase of polling on April 12.The repolling was ordered after examining the...
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