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.
DIMAPUR: Normal life remains heavily disrupted in Nagaland following a statewide bandh call on Thursday by the civil society organizations opposing the ongoing poll process without resolving the decade old confronting Naga settlement issue. Roads in this restive north eastern state started wearing a deserted look from early in the morning when the bandh call was enforced. Security forces are only moving on the streets to deal with possible outbreak of law and order mess. Shops and markets, schools and colleges, banks and offices have remained closed under the impact of the 12 hour bandh. Amid water right security, the state election office is opening with thin attendance of employees in...
NEW DELHI: Caught in a deep dilemma Nagaland BJP leadership is holding a crucial meeting with Central party leadership in Delhi on Thursday to find a way out. Led by state party president Visasolie Lohungue, a delegation is camping in the capital to appraise the party leadership of the prevailing logjam where the civil society organizations have asked them to boycott the upcoming assembly polls without resolving the vexed decade old issue. "We have been trying to convince the party leadership of the real impasse in Nagaland. We beg to put the ball on the central leader's court. They must find a way out," said a Nagaland BJP leader in Delhi. "We have been trying our best to apprise our...
BY RAJESH MANDAL TEZPUR: Despite a stepped up vigil smuggling of forest resources refuses to die down along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. The safe transit route, these days, is the Bhalukpung area where these resources in question are brought to Assam even with support from a section a section of police and forest officials. A joint team of Dhekiajuli forest department and police intercepted a huge consignment of illegal wood logs worth over ₹ 6 lakh in Kalamati on Wednesday. According to information loaded in six trucks, these were brought from Arunachal Pradesh to Sonitpur district through Bhalukpung to be intercepted by a team of forest department led by ranger Prabhat...
BY SUBANSHU BORA GOLAGHAT: Golaghat also joins Me Dam Me Fi celebrations along with other places across the state on Wednesday. Apart from offering pujas with traditional Tai religious fervor to appease the Ahom forefathers, a colouful procession was taken out which pulled huge crowd in the town. Some other programmes are also lined up to mark the occasion.
BY MARCUS KONYAK Kohima: The Election Commission on Wednesday issued notification for the assembly polls in Nagaland slated for February 27 even after ten major political parties have decided to boycott it. BJP, however, have withdrawn its consent suspending a senior leader who signed the joint declaration allegedly without any consent from the competent authority. According to the office of the state Chief Electoral office, the candidates are now free to file their nomination papers before the returning officers from 11 AM to 3 PM. The returning officers will receive the nominations till February 7. Talking to Assam Times, the nomination can be filed before the 7 returning...
GUWAHATI:Assam celebrates Me Dam Me Fi marking the homage to the Ahom forefathers with traditional Tai religious fervour across the state on Wednesday. The celebration started from early in the morning with puja offering to appease the Ahom forefathers. Seminars and cultural programmes are lined up on the occasion in many places. For the first time, the Assam government sponsored the occasion as the International Me Dam Me Fi with a day long programme. Chief minister Sarbanabda Sonowal, his cabinet colleagues, former chief minister Tarun Gogoi attended Me Dam Me Fi celebrations and sought divine blessings from the Ahom forefathers. Namrup Correspondent adds: Me Dam Me Fi was celebrated...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has received a PIL challenging Himanta Biswa Sarma as the Badminton Association of India chairman.In his PIL, Kamalesh Verma said the appointment of the senior BJP leader and cabinet minister in the Sarbanabda Sonowal government is a clear violation of the apex court order against appointment of minister or civil service in the vital sports body. Verma further said Sarma has no connection with sports and that there are graft charges against him. He said CBI team probing the chit fund scam in Assam has already interrogated him.Sarma took over aS BAI president last year. The top court is expected to look in to the PIL in a couple of days.
NEW DELHI: Caught in a barrage of criticism from the central leadership Nagaland state BJP has pulled out of the joint statement signed to boycott the upcoming assembly polls slated for February 27. The state party leadership has further suspended executive member Kheto Semaparty charging him with signing the joint declaration without being authorized by the leadership. The fresh development took place on Tuesday when central leader and state election in charge Kiren Rijiju talked to the state leadership not to go with the civil society organizations that would disallow the polls to take place. Talking to www.assamtimes.org, state BJP leaders said only the central leadership would take up...
KOHIMA: Nagaland state election authority has not received any instruction from the Election Commission 24 hours after all major political parties agreed not to contest the upcoming assembly polls slated for February 27 alleging the Centre's failure to resolve the main political problem. According to state election department sources, the authority was aware of the decision and they passed the message to the Election Commission. "But so far we have not received any information from ECI. We are doing our duty. This is for ECI and the Centre to decide. We have limitations," said a senior official in Kohima. Many political functionaries in Kohima caller state chief election officer Abhijeet...
GUWAHATI: Yet another shoot out strikes no less shock and anger in Kamrup suggesting utter failure of police to make the premier north eastern city and it's outskirt areas a safe and secured. Unidentified gunmen shot dead a BPF worker in Musolpur on Tuesday night a day after a businessman was killed to take away money from his possession. The new incident took place at around 9 in Lamidara area where two motorcycle born youths sprayed two rounds of bullets at Banajeet Haloi as the BPF worker was on his way to attend the Bathow puja festival. Banaheet was rushed to the hospital where he was declared brought dead. Police men rushed to the spot. But there seems to be no lead so far on the...
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