ULFA-I uses guerrilla tactic only for self defence and not for waging any waragainstIndia, said Dr Abhizeet Asom.
In a message sent to media on the Protest Day on Saturday, the ULFA-I chairman said that the outfit has been struggling to save the rights of the indigenous people of Assam.
According to the elusive ULFA-I leader, the "immature" studentleaders who spearheaded the Assam Agitation surrendered before New Delhi when they signed an accord to deport Bangladeshi aliens in 1985 with Rajiv Gandhi.
"However, India in contrast is seeking military solution to our legitimate struggle to establish our birthright as enshrined in international statues and our indigenous masses are responding to the call of the hour to own what belong to them," said the ULFA supremo.
He further spoke of the India, Bangladesh land deal with reference to the history of East Pakistan. The outfit also said that the move to give refugee status to the non-Muslim Bangladeshis are strange.
ITANAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed to have accelerated the pace of development of the north eastern region with a slew of initiatives during the last three years. Addressing a huge public meeting in Itanagar organized to open the new secretariat building on Thursday, Modi said that he has instructed his cabinet colleagues to visit the region once in a month. “Our government is not running from Delhi. It is running from the nook and corner of the country. I have issued the instructions to the ministers to visit the region to take stock of the development initiatives once in a month. “An union minister keeps visiting the region once in a month. Doing something for the region...
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his second leg of visit to Tripura on Thursday to campaign for BJP candidate for the February 18 assembly polls. Modi, who is addressing a huge gathering in Itanagar in the morning is arriving in Agartala in the afternoon. He is addressing the first rally in Shantir Bazar. This would be followed by another rally in the capital city of Agartala just before leaving back for New Delhi. The Left ruled north eastern state is going to the assembly polls on February 18 and the electioneering ends on Friday evening.
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: More than ten people sustained injury when two group of political activists clashed with each other in Tripura on Wednesday. The clash took place in Matabari area in the afternoon when two parties took out a simultaneous procession in support of their local poll candidate. All of a sudden, a section of the processionists turned violent and had an altercation provoking each other. Then the mild tussle broke into a clash where at least 15 people from both the groups sustained injury. The seriously injured processionists have been undergoing treatment in the hospital.
MARCUS KANYAK KOHIMA: Amid the electioneering heat and dust three top CMO officials in Nagaland feel the heat of extortion charges. The trio is facing NIA interrogation in Guwahati on Thursday. According to sources NIA has issued notices to the officials to appear in the Guwahati based office to be questioned on the allegations of extortion. NIA Deputy Superintendent of Police Jasveer Singh who happens to be the Chief Investigating Officer is all set to interrogate the trio on Thursday. The investigation agency has been probing the charges since 2016. Some incriminating documents have suggested their involvement in the extortion cases in the state.
MARCUS KANYAK KOHIMA: The Election Commission is fully satisfied with the preparations for the February 27 assembly pills in Nagaland. The commission pined hopes on a free and fair poll when the full bench of the country's poll panel wrapped up its stock taking visit to Kohima on Wednesday. Led by CEC OP Rawat, the bench which already visited Tripura is assessing the poll preparations in Nagaland on Wednesday. The trio talked to the top officials in the Nagaland capital city of Kohima who have been attached with the poll duties. Further, the poll panel delegation is meeting the representatives of the major political parties. Rawat and his team is visiting Shillong on...
GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister’s anti corruption and vigilance cell conducted a raid at the residence of a senior forest officer in Guwahati on Wednesday. The sleuths reached the residence of Aftabuddin Ahmed at Sundarpur area in the city in the morning and started the raid. Some of these officials raided a girls’ hostel Aashiyana owned by Ahmed who is known for his close association with former forest minister Rockybul Hussain. Amhed was Nagaon DFO when Hussain was forest minister during the Congress regime.
GUWAHATI: The Shiva temples scattering in the nook and corner of Assam witnessed huge gathering when devotees waited in serpentine queue to offer puja to the Lord to mark the Maha Shivatri on Wednesday. From early in the morning the devotees in large number started offering pujas to the Lord Shiva amid traditional religious fervor. Sivasagar breaks into a sea of humanity when nearly three lakh people thronged the historic town to join the International Shivratri Festival which got underway on Tuesday. In Guwahati also, devotees have crossed the river Brahmaputra to land the tiny island where the historic Umananda temple houses. Thousands of devotees offered puja to the Lord on this...
JORHAT: Precisely, it’s a boomtime for organizations in Assam in response to a number of issues that keep confronting the northeastern state and its people. But the mission matters here. We need to look at the ideology and modus operandi of an organization in rank and file. Today we are leaving before our visitors an interview with Manoj Gogoi, who is leading the Asom Premi Yuva Chatra Samaj, a one year old organization which claims to have been proliferating its mission in the nook and corner of the state. Here is an except of the interview with Jorhat correspondent BIJOY KUMAR BURAGOHAIN AT: Welcome to Assam Times. Since you have been leading Asom Premi Yuva Chatra...
Marcus Kanyak KOHIMA: Former Nagaland chief minister and NDPP candidate Neiphu Rio elected unopposed after his sole rival and NPF candidate in the Northern Angami constituency C Angami withdrew his nomination on Monday. Rio, the NDPP-BJP alliance chief ministerial candidate received certificate from the returning officer in the evening. Altogether 192 candidates are contesting in the February 27 assembly polls in the north eastern state.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is not at all satisfied with the CBI probe into the secret killing cases in Manipur. A division bench of the country's apex court comprising Justice MB Lokur and Justice UU Lalit on Monday said that the premier investigation agency has not been probing the nefarious cases where Army, police and para military forces were involved in the extra judicial cases. The bench further asked NHRC to dispatch a team of officials to help the SIT to complete the probe. The bench observed that the status report has not seal of approval from CBI director which needs to be done in the next report.
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