Its a big big day for regional politics in Assam. Despite stiff resistance the main Opposition Asom Gana Parishad on Tuesday announced its unification of regional forces with former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, Pulakesh Baruah, Atul Bora, Pabindra Deka et al. The epoch-making moment came up when the regional party was holding its function to mark its foundation day in Golaghat where the party was born in 1985.
AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary announced unification of AGP(P) led by Mahanta, Trinamool Gana Parishad led under the leadership of Pulakesh Baruah and Atul Bora. All they shaked their hands with smiling faces mending all differences in the crowded function.
On the other hand, the All Assam Students Union leaders and activists across the state observed Betrayal Day opposing the home coming of Mahanta. The state's powerful student body has been protesting the entry of Mahanta terming him the betrayer besides being the man behind the infamous secret killings.
There are reports that AASU leaders and workers across the states blocked roads, staged dharna on Tuesday in protest against Mahanta's home coming. In several places, police had to disperse the AASU picketers for blocking the national highways.
But the united AGP leaders are confident the AASU would reconsider the decision. On Monday, AGP and its breakaway group AGP(P) leadership hoped that the AASU will leave the matter right now for an united AGP atleast to defeat Congress.
PermalinkSubmitted by Juel Narzari on Wed, 15/10/2008 - 14:27
It is a fatal mistake for the party to once again welcome the betrayal leader. Once he was lost with dreams and fancies of his own but now he comes back to bring chaos in the party.The ultimate decision could be made by the people of Assam whether he will dynamic leader or betrayal.
PermalinkSubmitted by Dorika Barua on Thu, 16/10/2008 - 00:43
The Asom Gana Parishad is a party of BETRAYERS.......remember Assam Movement,then election of the AGP to power twice....10 years of corruption, misrule....appeasing Bangladeshis after the agitation, secret killings of Assamese people in villages and towns of Assam, license to open wine shops anywhere and everywhere, suicide of ASTC employees and teachers for non-payment of salary, 400 crore LOC scam......the list goes on and on......
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is the greatest Demon ever born in the history of Assam.
Security forces seized a huge quantity of ganja, weighing more than 80 kgs from the Guwahati Railway station on Saturday.
Patrolling railway police personnel recovered ten packets of the contraband, worth Rs 3 lakh, from a compartment of the Alipurduar-Mariani Passenger train.
In another incident, police recovered 16 packets of ganja, worth about Rs six lakhs, from the guards room of the railway station and took into custody the Guardsman Chandiram Bodo.
BJP and All India United Democratic Front have slammed the Union Budget 2012-13 a day after it was presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament on Friday.
Talking to reporters, BJP MP Ramen Deka said that the Centre should declare a separate time zone for the northeast for increasing the pace of development and work efficiency in the region. Party MP Romen Deka raised the issue of a separate time zone for the northeast under rule 377 on March 14. Deka told a press conference here on Saturday that there was nothing significant for the northeast in the budget and the increase in taxes would cause problems to the common people.
AIUDF president caterogically termed the Union Budget as anti-poor. Talking to reporters on Saturday, he said that the new taxes were going to hurt the common people. He said that the budget has nothing for the common people, and the poor are going to be hit hard. According to him, at a time when the Brahmaputra was creating havoc in the form of floods and erosion, there was a high expectation in Assam Assam that the finance minister would come out with special measures for the state.
He further said that even President Pratibha Patil's address had no mention of flood and erosion problem.
The much-hyped NRC update process is expected to begin from July. The exercise is set to take place in two in three phase from Sadiya.
This was disclosed during a meeting of the ministerial panel and some organizations including AASU. Panel head Prithvi Majhi who chaired the meeting admitted the major demands raised by these orgasnizations. The NRC update forms would have birth place. The update is set to take place from Sadiya in three phases.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has stressed poverty alleviation with gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities.
Addressing the General Body meeting of the Assam State Rural Livelihoods Mission Society on Saturday, Gogoi said that importance would be on providing them access to credit, marketing and other livelihood services to facilitate their upward mobility. He said that ASRLMS would implement the NRLM, the redesigned and restructured programme of Swarnajayanti Gram Swaroajgar Yojana (SGSY) to bail out the rural BPL families.
Union Rural Development Ministry's Joint Secretary T Vijay Kumar called for focused attention on building grassroots capacity to...
The Kaziranga National park got more forest camps. The forest camp inside the abode of one horn rhino has gone up to 152.
The camps would be manned by 6 to 7 guards each of whom will be armed with sophisticated weapons.
Moreover, 170 armed security guards have been deployed inside the national park, a world heritage site, along with personnel from Assam Forest Protection Force.
Local residents in Jakhalabandha town held 75 suspected Bangladeshi immigrants on Saturday after they arrived in the railway station from Dhubri.
The suspected Bangladeshi nationals were coming from Dhubri by the Dhubri-Silghat passenger express which reached Jakhalabandha station in the morning.
When asked, they failed to submit any valid document and later admitted that they were on their way to Kuthori near the Kaziranga National Park.
Sixty members of the group, including a female have been detained at the Jakhalabandha police station. Fifteen others have been released.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday seemed not happy with the Union budget tabled in Parliament on Friday.
Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Saturday, Gogo said that there is no such major announcement for the state. But he was in a fix when the media people repeatedly asked him how the UPA government has virtually donwplayed the interest of Assam. The rail budget is not an exception.
Day long screening of award-winning Assamese Films, organized by Assam association Delhi in association with enajori.com and Pooberun. All are invited.
Date: Sunday, the 18th March 2012 from 11.00hrs to 19.00hrs
Venue: Srimanta Sankardeva Bhawan, New Delhi
List of Feature Films :
1. Firingoti (The Spark) : Directed by Jahnu Baruah.
2. Laaz (Shame) : Directed by Manju Borah
3. Tora (Tora's Love) : Directed by Jahnu Baruah.
List of Short Films and Documentaries
4. Divided Soul : Directed by Dip Bhuyan
5. Their Story : Directed by Reema Borah
6. Seventy-Five Years of Assamese Cinema : Directed by Prabin Hazarika.
For details please call: 26537786,...
Police arrested notorious drug kingpin Elahi Sheikh from his residence in the Chandmari area of Guwahati on Friday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided Sheikh's house and caught him along with a huge consignment of drugs. Police claimed to have found brown sugar weighing over 1 kg in his possession. Two drug peddlers - Bhutu Ali and Nazir Ali - were also arrested along with him.
Sheikh, who is considered the kingpin of the racket in the entire upper Assam region, parts of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, has been escaping police.
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