In a major blow for NSCN(IM) and its negotiation for a greater Nagalim, Isaac Chishi Swu passed away on Tuesday. The end came at 12.30 noon at the Fortis Hospital where he was undergoing treatment for the last couple of months.
Born in 1929 at a Sema village in the Zunheboto district of Nagaland, he did his early education at American Mission School at Chishilimi and then studied at Government High School in Kohima before obtaining his graduation with honours in Political Science from St. Anthony’s College in Shillong.
He joined NSCN in late 1950’s and served as Foreign Secretary. The Naga National Council (NNC) which was a political organization of Naga people, active from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. Under the leadership of Angami Zapu Phizo in the 1940s, it unsuccessfully campaigned for the secession of the Naga territory from India and creation for a sovereign Naga state after he became the foreign secretary he was later elevated to Vice President NNC.
The 85-year-old NSCNleader Isak Chishi Swu is married to Khulu, and has five sons and one daughter.
Isak Chishi Swu, Thuingaleng Muivah and S.S. Khaplang were behind the formation of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) on 31 January 1980 opposing the Shillong Accord signed by the then Naga National Council (NNC) with the Centre. Following a disagreement, the group split into two factions, the NSCN-K led by S S Khaplang, and the NSCN-IM, led by Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah.
BJP leaders and workers in large number have gathered in Biswanath Chariali on Monday to attend the Narendra Modi’s poll rally to campaign for Tezpur candidate Ram Prasad Sarma.After landing at the Mohanbari airport by a special aircraft, the BJP prime ministerial candidate will straightly leave for the Kamala Kanta Playground at 10-30 in the morning to hold the rally.BJP state unit president Sarbananda Sonowal along with all senior leaders have already arrived in the rally. Lok Sabha polls in this constituency will take place on April 7 along with Jorhat, Dibrugah, Lakhimpur and Koliabor.
A lower court in Titabor has remanded Akhil Gogoi to 14 days judicial custody after the KMSS president was arrested on Sunday.When produced before judicial magistrate in Titabor, Gogoi was sent to the Jorhat Central Jail in the afternoon.The court further asked police to produce the case diary and the documents of medical treatment to the KMSS leader.Gogoi was rushed to the court by an ambulance after being air dashed to Jorhat.The KMSS leader is likely to move a bail petition before the court on Monday. The development came two days after the Gauhati High Court granted bail to Gogoi in all cases.
After months of will-they-won’t-they, Sootea AGP in rank and file quit the party on Sunday.The formal announcement was made at a meeting in Sootea presided over by MLA Padma Hazarika. The suspended legislator, however, did not formally resigned because of some legal implications. The party workers told Assam Times that they were disappointed with the party leadership and that they had hardly any option to buy time.Notably, the party leadership on Saturday invited Hazarika and his supporters to formally withdraw his suspension. But Hazarika did not turn up citing personal reasons.He was suspended for 6 years for refusing to toe on the party line in the recent...
BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday accused of the Congress government of encouraging infiltration from the Indo-Bangladesh border.Addressing a poll rally in Karimganj, he said that a Bangla national is free to work in Assam. But he should be pushed back.
Akhil Gogoi has dropped yet another bombshell against Tarun Gogoi when the KMSS was airlifted to Titabor on Sunday.Talking to reporters before leaving Guwahati, the KMSS leader said that the chief minister has a conspiracy to kill him.He alleged that he has been tortured in the judicial custody and that a conspiracy is on to kill him with slow poisoning.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Sunday that the UPA government has done a lot during the last ten years. Now its turn for the people to retain the party in power to help them do more.This was what Gandhi appealed when she addressed a huge rally in Lakhimpur to campaign for Union minister Ranee Narah.She said that her party has been reaching the people in the time of any crisis.She appealed to the people to judge the performance of the Tarun Gogoi government in Dispur and UPA government in Delhi.“You have seen whatever you got from the NDA or AGP governments. Now see the differences with the Tarun Gogoi government,” said Sonia.Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and APCC president Bhubneswar...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday claimed to have done excellent jobs which would help the party show wonderful performance in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Addressing a huge rally in Lakhimpur to campaign for party candidate Ranee Narah, Gogoi said that Congress always looks after the poor lot and that’s why these people would vote for the party.He hoped that the ruling party in Assam would be able to put up wonderful performance in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Sonia Gandhi seems to have pulled huge crowd as the Congress president arrived to campaign for Ranee Narah in Lakhimpur on Sunday.Over 20,000 people have already thronged at the venue before the arrival of the UPA chairperson. The workers, mostly, ferried by hiring various buses and other four wheeler vehicles from early in the morning.Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita also attended the rally to campaign for the Union minister for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Earlier, the Congress president landed at the Lilabari Airport at around 11-30 in the morning. Then she left or the rally by a chopper. The polling in Lakhimpur will take place on April 7 along with...
Amid massive security, police shifted Akhil Gogoi to Titabor on Sunday a day after the court allowed transit remand of the KMSS president.At 11 in the morning, Gogoi was taken to Sarusajai to be airlifted to Titabor where police would grill him in connection with two cases pending against him.Gogoi was to be released on Saturday when on Friday he procured bail from Gauhati High Court in cases.Hundreds of KMSS workers staged dharna in front of the Guwahati Central Jail where he was lodged. But security forces did not allow them to meet Gogoi even when he was taken out of the Guwahati Central jail.
Insurgent outfits seem to have stepped up activities in Karbi Anglong district in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls.Minister Kahrsing Ingty has a narrow escape on Saturday evening when a hand made grenade exploded in Howraghat minutes before he arrived the stop.The explosion took place at Phubari in the hills district in front of a Congress leader Michale Bey who escaped unhurt.The grenade is believed to have been planted by KLNLA.
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