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.
A police man has been suspended in Guwahati for inhuman torture he inflicted on a city bus driver who refused to pay hi m money.The incident took place in Jalukbari area in the city where the policemen asked him to pay fine for halting at unauthorized place. When the driver and his assistance pleaded their inability, he mercilessly beat up the driver damaging his one of the eyes.Then senior police officials rushed to the spot and arrested the constable.
Normal life comes to a grinding halt in BTAD following 12 hour bandh in protest against GK Pillai’s stock taking visit which has already been cancelled.Schools and colleges, shops and markets are remaining closed under the impact of the paralyzing bandh which started at 6 in the morning.The impact in Kokrajhar is not so huge in view of the rally organized on the occasion of the former union home secretary’s visit. The Centre set up a one man commission of GK Pillai to study the separate Bodoland demands afresh.Non Bodo organizations along with a section of Bodo organizations have vehemently opposed the expert panel calling it a delaying tactic. ...
Akhil Gogoi’s mother Priyoda Gogoi is on a hunger strike near Jorhat on Tuesday demanding immediate release of her son who was arrested on Sunday in connection with the recent self immolation case.Flanked by 50 local KMSS workers, Gogoi began her hunger strike at her own residence in Teok from Tuesday morning.Several local organizations also have visited her and promised help.
Two poachers are believed to have sustained injury at an encounter with forest guards in Kaziranga on Tuesday.The encounter took place in the wee hours near Luit forest camp in the Sixth addition of the national park where the poachers are believed to have been injured.A team of forest guards are looking for the injured poachers inside the national park. Forest guards further claimed to have seized a boat along with some bullets from the spot.
KMSS activists are thronging in thousands in Guwahati to hold a meeting in protest against the arrest of Akhil Gogoi who was arrested on Sunday in connection with the Dispur self immolation case.Several prominent citizens are joining the meeting at Dighalipukhuri demanding immediate release of the KMSS president who is in police custody.After the meeting, they would submit a memorandum before the deputy commissioner demanding his immediate rally.
One person died and five others have been injured when suspected ULFA militants exploded a powerful bomb in Tinsukia.The explosion took place at Sripura around 8-30 in the morning where one person was killed on the spot.The injured have been rushed to the hospital after the arrival of police. No organization has so far owned up the responsibility of the blast. But it is believed to be a handiwork of ULFA.
Former Union home secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai has cancelled his stock-taking visit to BTAD on Tuesday.According to home ministry, Pillai has cancelled his visit because of inconvenience in helicopter services on Tuesday.But reliable sources told Assam Times that Pillai has cancelled his visit in the face of simmering protest in BTAD by a section of Bodo and non Bodo organizations.Pillai, however, has not fixed the date of his next attempt.On the other hand, the development has disappointed the Bodo National Convention leaders who were all set to hold a huge rally to woo Pillai who is studying the separate Bodoland demands.
Former minister Hitendra Nath Goswami joined BJP on Monday a week after he left AGP. Goswami is not the first AGP leader to have joined the saffron party. Former AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary and Jagadish Bhuyan are also likely to join the party.Patowary is believed to have been camping in New Delhi for instant touch with central BJP leaders.
Marathon interrogation is in progress on Akhil Gogoi a day after police got the KMSS president in their remand in connection with the recent self immolation of Pramod Boro.A special team of police probing the sensational case has been interrogating the peasant leader in connection to the self immolation case where he is charged with instigating the KMSS worker to take this extreme course of action on February 24.Authorities are tightlipped on his confessional statement.The same investigation team continues to grill five other KMSS leaders in this connection.Kamrup CJM on Sunday remanded Gogoi to police custody for four days when he was produced before it.He would be produced before the same...
Many KMSS activists have staged five hour long dharna at Gorchuk area in the city demanding immediate release of Akhil Gogoi who was arrested on Sunday along with five other leaders.Talking to Assam Times, led by Pramod Boro’s wife Purnima Boro, the protestors said that the agitation would not halt until and unless Gogoi is released.They further blocked a road by burning tyres in protest against the arrest of KMSS president.
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