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.
Several political heavyweights are set to approach the returning officers on Wednesday on the last day of filing nominations for the second phase of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls slated for April 12.Security forces have been guarding the Deputy Commissioner’s offices in Silchar, Karimganj, Diphu where the candidates are set to file their nomination papers.
Its official. Sonia Gandhi has rescheduled her visit to Assam to campaign for the party candidates.The Congress president is scheduled to hold a huge poll rally in Lakhimpur on March 20.Earlier, she was scheduled to hold the rallies on March 28. Before that on March 29, prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh is scheduled to hold two poll rallies in Jorhat and Dibrugarh. On March 27, party vice president Rahul Gandhi will hold two rallies in Tezpur and Dibrugarh where the poll would take place on April 7.
Nagaon police have arrested a person and seized a huge amount of money from his possession on Tuesday.The entire amount was seized from the person during a stepped up operation in Borghat.Identified as Hari Singh, the person was believed to have been carrying the amount of Rs ,71,000 among a section of the voters on behalf of a Lok Sabha poll candidate.
There seems to be no respite for Akhil Gogoi. The KMSS president wont be able to come out of the jail even after the Gauhati High Court granted bail to him in four more cases.Police on Tuesday produced Gogoi before the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate a day after he was arrested in connection with three fresh cases.The CJM court remanded Gogoi to judicial custody for 14 days in connection two cases pending against him in Khetri police station apart from one case in Bharalumukh police station.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi claimed that the ruling party is sure of ten seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Tuesday, Gogoi said that nobody can stop Congress from getting at least ten seats this time.He further called Bijoya Chakravartty a biggest lier adding that he has not seen such a person anywhere. The sharp reaction came a day after the BJP candidate from Guwahati charged him with seeking Rs 1,000 crore from a Kolkata based cement company.
NDFB-S steps up its attack in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls scheduled from April 7.Two CRPF jawans sustained bullet injury at an encounter with security forces in Udalguri district on Tuesday.The encounter took place at Majbat in the wee hours a day after the Bodo insurgent outfit called for bandh on March 27 when Rahul Gandhi will hold a poll rally in Tezpur.The injured have been shifted to the hospital amid heavy gun battle with the Bodo insurgent outfit.
A construction worker was killed at an incident of firing by miscreants in Mongoldoi on Monday. The shocking incident took place in Holouchuka 8 in the evening when unidentified miscreants started indiscriminate firing at a bridge construction project where the worker was killed on the spot. Then the miscreants fled away from the spot. Identified as Saifuddin Ahmed, the deceased hailed from Morigaon district.Senior police and civil officials arrived in the spot. Investigation is going on.
Congress high command has directed party leaders in Assam to ensure massive victory in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.AICC vice president on Monday was believed to have got tougher with the dissident legislators for allegedly not helping a section of candidates in the run up to the polls.The directives were passed acting on the allegations of Lakhimpur and Tezpur candidates. Apart from the duo, health minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and legislator Piyush Hazarika were present in the crucial meeting at Jindal House in New Delhi. Talking to reporters after the meeting, Dr Sarma said that the party in rank and file would ensure a massive win in the polls.He said that he himself would...
Hantigiri Narzary from KokrajharAfter being denied ticket to contest in the Lok Sabha polls in Kokrajhar, BPF leader SK Bwiswmuthiary is preparing to contest independently.Minutes after the party announced the name of Chandan Brahma, the sitting MP called it a family conspiracy against him. Talking to reporters, he accused Hagrama Mohilary of functioning in autocratic style.“I have been working for the interest of people of Bodoland and raising issues, including on Bodoland on the floor of Parliament. I still enjoy the support of 5 lakhs people,” he told Assam Times.
Two former ULFA militants are contesting in the first phase of Lok Sabha polls slated for April 7.The Opposition Asom Gana Parishad has fielded Horiprasad Dihingia in Lakhimpur. AGP is only the party to give a ticket to a former ULFA militant. He has cases pending against him under the TADA Act. Another former ULFA militant Jiten Gogoi is contesting independently from Koliabor.The former two time independent MLA also faces charges pending against him in the Additional Sessions Court of Golaghat.
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