After days of will-they-won't-they, four suspended Congress MLAs along with five of their colleagues have joined BJP on Friday fuelling the speculations of a vertical split in the opposition party 6 months ahead of the assembly polls.
Sitting Congress MLAs Pradan Baruah, Jayanta Malla Baruah, Piyush Hazarika and Pallab Lochan Das. Others Abu Taher Bepari, Balin Chetia, Rajen Barthakur, Binanda Saikia and Kripanath Mallah have joined BJP at a function presided over by state unit president Siddarth Bhattacharya at the party headquarter in the afternoon. Party's central leaders Ram Madhab along with many senior leaders attended the ceremony where Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal was conspicuous by his absence.
Many senior BJP leaders have not taken Sonowal's absence easily.
"We are not easily accepting the absence of Sonowal from the ceremony. He was dead opposed to their joining with promise for ticket to contest the polls," said a senior party leaders.
APCC president Anjan Dutta said the party has finally got rid of these, disturbing the party for the last three years. They joined the party a day after they met Sonowal who in principle, allowed them to proceed.
Heatwave toll goes up to 11 on Thursday after three persons person died of heatstroke in Goalpara on Thursday. Before that two persons died in Bokakhat and Gohpur. A street dweller was killed in the heat on Wednesday. The body was found under the Ulubari flyover. Apart from him, a 70-year-old man, Sibulal Rabidas, died in the heatwave at Lalamukh Tea Garden in Hailakandi district. A 65-year-old man died of heatstroke in the Labourputa area of Cachar district. In Nagaon district, one person died due to the heat. But there is no sig of any relief on Thursday. Guwahati is set to break 33 year old record on Thursday.
No relief seems to be waiting the sun-burnt people on Thursday.
Guwahati is set to break 33 year old record on Thursday. The city was
hit by temperature of 39 degree Celsius on Wednesday. The death toll
due to the heatwave went up to 3 in the city on Wednesday.
Heatwave toll goes up to 9 on Thursday after a person died of
heatstroke in Digboi on Thursday. A street dweller was killed in the
heat on Wednesday. The body was found under the Ulubari flyover. Apart
from him, a 70-year-old man, Sibulal Rabidas, died in the heatwave at
Lalamukh Tea Garden in Hailakandi district. A 65-year-old man died of
heatstroke in the Labourputa area of Cachar district. In Nagaon
district, one person died due to the heat.
The regional meteorological centre in Guwahati recorded a maximum
temperature of 38.8°C on Wednesday. It predicts hardly any relief
during the next 48 hours. Schools and colleges are remaining closed
under the impact of the heat-wave. The Kamrup (Metro) district
administration has instructed schools across Guwahati to remain shut
on Thursday and Friday.
Amid growing revolt against Tarun Gogoi, AICC has ruled out a change in the chief ministership which has downplayed the dissidence.Party spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary told reporters in Delhi, “some people have certain views. They have come here to voice those. Concerned people will discuss the issue with them."Gogoi's recent visit to the capital fuelled speculation that he was demanding that certain ministers in the state opposed to him should be dropped.
A group of rebel Congress MLAs have lodged serious complaints to the party leadership against the autocratic style of functioning of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. They alleged that the state is now being run by officials where they have no any say.The MLAs claimed to have got the support of 40 others. They said till the second term of Gogoi government, the MLAs did not have problems in executing works but they have been facing difficulty since Gogoi came to power for the third time in 2011.
A group of twelve legislators met Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in Delhi on Friday and appraised him if the Maoist menace in the state. Shinde, on his part, promised to act soon on this issue.
Tea planters called for a single hotline phone number along with deployment of drones and unmanned aerial vehicles to ensure adequate security for executives and workers of the industry.According to North East Tea Association, the government should provide the tea industry a single hotline phone number in every tea growing area so that well-equipped and well-manned police and paramilitary forces arrive at the spot within 30 minutes of receiving a phone call.
Normal life in Assam remains crippled on fourth day following an indefinite economic blockade imposed against Nagaland.The blockade was imposed after armed miscreants killed a farmer during a firing incident in the Naginijaan area near Mariani in Jorhat District along the Assam-Nagaland border, worsening the unresolved boundary row.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh extended his best wishes to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on the successful completion of second year of the third consecutive term anniversary of the Congress government on Saturday.Dr Singh, in a message said, Assam has seen all round progress and development during the third consecutive term of the Congress Government.
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