In a bizarre move that leaves the BJP-led government red faced on the floor on Monday, AGP thrashed the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre for the controversial move on the Hindu Bangladeshi nationals.
Former Chief Minister and AGP leader PK Mahanta said that he was dead opposed to the move and that it would be an insult to the spirit of Assam Accord.
However, AGP president Atul Bora who holds the agriculture minister looked very disappointed when his predecessor rose to speak on the controversial move to give refugee status for the Hindu nationals of the neighbouring countries.
PermalinkSubmitted by jay Boro on Mon, 08/08/2016 - 19:44
Why Can't they go and settle in west bengal? Assam is already a semi-bengal. Mahanta did a good job by raising his opinion. Ruling the govt doesn't mean you don't have a voice against election manifesto.
Assam BJP will go it alone in the next assembly polls. This was what central BJP leader Mahendra Singh said in Guwahati on Wednesday. The BJP heavyweight who is on a visit to Guwahati told reporters that the party has no plan to forge any pre poll alliance with other parties. According to Singh, the party has every strength to ensure landslide victory in the 2016 assembly polls. He further denied any move to replace state party unit president Siddharth Bhattacharya saying that there is no factionalism in the party.
After Congress, factionalism seems to have surfaced in Assam BJP unit forcing the party top guns in Delhi to rush a senior leader to deal with the situation before it goes out of proportion. Sources told Assam Times that the factionalism centres around the simmering tussle between Sarbananda Sonowal and Siddharth Bhattarcharya. Both the camps have different views on some crucial issues. But the major issue is the move to induct Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and his associates in the party.The state unit president wants the dissident Congress leaders to be inducted in the party. But his predecessor the Union minister is dead opposed to it fearing a dent in the party’s image in the...
Saturday is nearing. Assam Pradesh Congress is gearing up to hold the betrayal protest rally in Guwahati against the NDA government at the Centre.The rally is scheduled at the playground of College of Veterinary Science at Khanapara. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi along with the senior party leaders vowed to make it a success when they attended a meeting at Koinadhara on Tuesday night.Sources told Assam Times that the party will expose the Modi government on the Indo-Bangla land swap deal, the dilution of the land acquisition act to allegedly favour the corporate and construction of big dams.
Policemen are again on maximum alert. Security has been beefed up acting on the inputs that ULFA is trying to strike in the run up to the Republic Day.This was what IGP RM Singh said on Tuesday a day after police nabbed a hardcore ULFA rebel in Nagaon. He said that the revelation came up during interrogation of the ULFA rebel who was dispatched by Dristi Rajkhowa to the district to carry out subversive activities in Guwahati.
NIA director general Sharad Kumar is on a three days stock taking visit to the state amid the probe into the recent violence that left 81 dead on Kokrajhar and Sonitpur. Kumar on Tuesday met Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Director General of Police (DGP) Khagen Sarma, Chief Secretary Jitesh Khosla and other officials to discuss the investigation.The NIA chief is scheduled to visit the violence-affected areas in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts on Wednesday.
Normalcy is back to Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts where NDFB-S rebels killed at least 75 Adivshi people in 5 simultaneous last month. But the situation has improved a lot. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) Chief Executive Officer Pramod Kumar Tiwari said that over 25,000 violence people who have returned to their homes in the last 24 hours with gradual improvement of the situation though around 1.3 lakh people are still lodged in these temporary shelters across four districts. At least 1,29,828 persons are living in 77 relief camps in Kokrajhar, Sonitpur, Chirang and Udalguri districts at this moment.
The Kokrajhar district administration has set up peace committees to ensure unity among the various tribes and community in the aftermath of the Adivasi carnage.The Bodo and Adivasi peoples held peace meetings Serfanguri and Athiabari in the presence district administration officials.Serfanguri Relief camp was formed with Mantu Rawani as president and Ranen Mashahary as secretary along with seven members both from Bodo and Adivasi peoples.The peace committee at Athiabari Forest office relief camp was formed with Mantu Minz as president and Purna Mushahary as secretary.Principal Secretary Rajib Kumar Bora and Kokrajhar DC ThaneswarMalakar visited Pakriguri, Serfanguri and Patgaon relief...
Security forces claimed to have killed yet another NDFB (S) rebel at an encounter in Karbi Anglong district. The encounter took place at Bogijan area bordering Golaghat in the evening.Sources told Assam Times that police had to fire upon after they came to see three suspected NDFB (S) militants. A rebel was killed on the spot while two others managed to escape. Police further recovered a pistol, two grenades and seven live cartridges were recovered from the spot.
Come April. A new cancer hospital will start functioning at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital. The hospital would be ready by March and that 90 per cent work of the new cancer hospital on the GMCH premises was complete.Health minister Dr Nazrul Islam said that it would help the B Barooah Cancer Institute reduce the increasing load of patients. The health and family welfare minister said it on Monday when he inaugurated a dual head gamma camera machine with SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) at B. Borooah Cancer Institute.
NIA director general Sharad Kumar is on a 3 days visit to Guwahati to review the probe into the recent Adivasi carnage in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts.Kumar is scheduled to meet the NIA officials who have been probing the cases today. Then he will meet the chief secretary and DGP to discuss the probe. On Wednesday and Thursday, Kumar is expected to visit the massacres sites to assess the situation. NIA has been probing 4 cases.
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