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.
Tension prevails in Golaghat district of Assam a day after Nagaland police asked the local residents of Merapani to leave the area. High level police and civil officials are camping in the area to monitor the situation and police and para military forces are put on alert. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi dispatched home secretary Jishnu Baruah who is overseeing security arrangement. Tension gripped the entire area after a bunch of Nagaland police asked the local residents of Kolaijan near Merapani to leave the area claiming that they possessed the area from the Assam government.
Meanwhile, All Assam Students' Union would launch a massive agitation in Golaghat in protest against the...
A lower court in Guwahati on Friday sent Ranjit Das to jail a day after he severed his wife's head and surrendered before a police station in Guwahati. Ranjeet who resides at Bikrampur in Japorigog chopped off his wife’s head walked to police station with the severed head and a blood-stained machete was caught by Central Reserve Police Force jawans in Ganeshguri Point and drove him to Dispur police station.
The police said that Ranjeet had confessed to have killed his wife during interrogation. He would be produced before the magistrate again on Monday. Amiya was a health department worker under the National Rural Health Mission posted at Orang in Udalguri district.
A train driver was injured when unidentified miscreants attacked a goods train in Dima Hasao district on Wednesday. According to reports, the incident took place at around 1-30 in the afternoon near Haflong when unidentified miscreants fired from the nearby hill-top at the goods train which was on its way to Silchar from Lumding. The driver suffered bullet injury in his legs and was admitted to the Haflong civil hospital. Details are awaited. Railway and police officials rushed to the area, they said adding that the identity of the insurgents was yet to be ascertained.
The entire Assam is in the grip of Durga Puja festivities. Maha Navami puja is being observed a day before the immersion of the idols. People of all walks of life young and old alike are lined up in the puja mandaps to offer Maha Navami puja from early in the morning. Prominent political leaders are also seen offering puja seeking divine help. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday visited a puja pandal in Ganeshguri a day after he wrapped up a foreign tour.
Talking to reporters, Gogoi hoped that the puja will help the state end the bloody chapter and that he would try to rein the in soaring price line to give the people some sort of respite. Replying to a question on whether he...
Two policemen have been injured and arms were looted when suspected Maoists sprang upon the 19th Assam Police Battalion. According tom information, a group of suspected Maoist cadres launched a sudden attack on the policemen namely Nitual Gogoi and Ajit Buragohain leaving seriously injured. Immediately after the incident the duo have been shifted to the Assam Medical College Hospital. Meanwhile, security forces are fanning in the entire area with a joint operation to nab the culprit. The incident is suspected to be a Maoist attack but the authorities are yet to confirm it. Details are awaited.
It was a colourful blend of young achievers from various parts of the Northeast as they gathered at the Bamboo Hall at Kisama on Monday for the first time in history under the banner “Young Leaders Connect”. In a day-long conference with about fifteen speakers, four moderators and over 200 delegates, leaders from the eight NE states came together under the theme ‘Connect, Exchange, Strengthen’ to deliberate discussions on a range of topics including “Governance as Leadership: Connecting policies with aspirations”, “Redefining Development through Social Entrepreneurship”, “The Role of North East in the growing economy of India”...
Electronic Media Forum Assam has expressed profound grief at the sudden and untimely demise of young television journalist Manideep Boro. The active journalist from Kokrajhar, who had vast experience of working for both print and electronic media in Assam, was suffering from hypertension and other ailments. Boro, 40, who worked The Telegraph, NE Television and later shifted to News Live channel, died at 5 pm of October 3 in GNRC Hospital. May his soul rest in peace, EMFA release added.
Assam is celebrating Durga puja across the state with much pomp and gaiety. Devotees are thronging in thousands to offer puja to the goddess Durga on Tuesday to end the evil dominance. Tuesday is Maha Navami where from early in the morning the devotees are visiting the pujas mandaps in different places of the state.
There seems to be an undeclared race of puja mandaps in the state where Guwahati city seems to have stole the limelight. The puja ,mandap at Laxmimandir in Beltola is teeming with visitors from morning till midnight to see the idol of goddess. Another striking feature this year there is a show to spread message of wild life.
Latasheel mandap is also pulling no less...
On the auspicious day of ‘International Day of Non- Violence’, various North East bands came together to appeal for Harmony in the North East Region at KASSA Indoor Stadium, Diphu, Assam on 2nd October 2011. The 3rd Indigenous Music Festival was organized by Abiogenesis Society, Dimapur in collaboration with North East Zone Cultural Centre, Ministry Of Culture, Government of India. The previous 1st and 2nd Indigenous Music Festival was held at Dimapur in 2007 and 2009 respectively. The bands that performed in this years festival are Ragga Muffin (Diphu), Rokrar (Diphu), Maestro ( Halflong), Jambili (Diphu) and Incipit (Nagaland) with Premson Bey taking the mic as host for the...
The death toll in the tragic mishap in the outskirt of the city has gone up to 8 with five more succumbed to injuries on Sunday night. Three persons died on the spot immediately after the Tata Sumo vehicle carrying them to Mancachar collided its head on a speeding truck at Kenduguri in Boko in the evening. All the three deceased who died on the spot were Tata Sky employees. All nine injured persons were rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital where five of them died on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, a pall of gloom descended to the entire area following the incident that marred the Durga puja festivities in the area. The bodies were kept for post mortem. Investigation is on. The...
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