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 Assam government has on Tuesday announced the Madhabdev Award to Mrinal Miri. Instituted after the saint, the veteran educationist will receive the award.
Come February 25. Assam Congress is gearing up to hold a huge rally to be addressed by Rahul Gandhi in Guwahati.Disclosing this, senior Congress leaders told Assam Times that Gandhi is scheduled to address a huge rally on youth and women empowerment in the city.The rally was earlier scheduled on February 16. But only to be deferred to February 26. The rally aims at countering the Narendra Modi rally on February 8.
Two forest officials faced wrath of people in Majuli after a strayed rhino killed a local villager on Tuesday.The incident took place at 10 in the morning at Pohumara paddy field where despite repeated information of rhino terror, the forest officials needed nearly 4 hours to reach the spot.Local residents told Assam Times that they did inform the forest department in the wee hours that a full grown rhino is moving freely in the area striking panic among the villagers. But of no avail.At 7-30, the animal killed one person when he was trying to disperse the rhino. The shocking news also passed to the department.Three hours after it, two forest officials reached the spot. But strangely, the...
The Central Bureau of Investigation will probe into the death of Nido Tania at the hands of a few miscreants in New Delhi.The confirmation came from Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde when he met Tania’s parents in the capital on Tuesday.Before that Tania’s parents called on Rahul Gandhi who assured them of help. Tania’s was killed in racial attack in Lajpotnagar and six accused have been arrested in the face of growing protest.
Four BJP legislators are dead opposed to Prasanta Phukan as the party’s legislature committee head in the Assembly.They write to the party leadership to remove him from the post following the allegations of his role in the voting anomalies in the Rajya Sabha polls where the Opposition consensus candidate was defeated.According to them, Phukan has no right to continue his leadership in the party’s legislative body. But Phukan has urged the state election officer to make his ballot public to vindicate what he has been claiming.
The body of Gopi Gogoi was identified a day after it was found floating on the Brahmapputra river in Guwahati on Monday.His family member identified it on Tuesday after the post mortem at GMCH three days after he left his home on Khowang for Guwahati to attend the Narendra Modi rally.State BJP has expressed shock at the mysterious death of the its activist along with Ananta Hazarika who died after falling from a moving train carrying him back to Dibrugarh from Guwahati.
The body of Gopi Gogoi was identified a day after it was found floating on the Brahmapputra river in Guwahati on Monday.His family member identified it on Tuesday after the post mortem at GMCH three days after he left his home on Khowang for Guwahati to attend the Narendra Modi rally.State BJP has expressed shock at the mysterious death of the its activist along with Ananta Hazarika who died after falling from a moving train carrying him back to Dibrugarh from Guwahati.
BJP legislator Prasanta Phukan has written to the Chief Electoral Officer seeking a probe into the allegations that his ballot was cancelled in the recent Rajya Sabha polls.In a letter on Tuesday, the MLA from Dibrugarh further requested the state poll authority to make his ballot papers public. Notably, his ballot is understood to have been rejected for openly displaying in the voting room before dropping into the box.According to what the four other legislators alleged, Phukan ignored the party whip by getting the ballot verified by the party agent deployed on the day.Phukan, however, called it a Congress-sponsored conspiracy to malign his image in the upper Assam...
After a brief lull, terror seems to have revisited Karbi Anglong district where a local businessman has been kidnapped at gunpoint.The incident took place on Monday night when armed miscreants kidnapped a local businessman from his residence in Rajbari area in the hills district.Identified as Bijay Das, he was running a wine shop in the area. A combing rescue operation is in progress to rescue Das.
A strayed rhino is unleashing no less reign of terror killing a person in Majuli on Tuesday.The animal was spotted in the open paddy field at Pohumora area early in the morning to be chased away by a group of local people. But it sneaked into the nearby village in the wee hours.The angry animal killed a person when he along with a few others tried to disperse it from the river island. The local resident was hit by its horn and then trampled to death. Forest officials arrived in the spot at 8-30 in the morning and they are monitoring the animal.
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