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.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday urged the Centre to explore the US community college model and set up similar colleges in Assam. He requested it to Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal whom he met on Friday in Delhi. Gogoi pointed out that during his visit to community colleges in US in June this year he gained insight into this model and what makes it successful. Gogoi observed that such colleges must be set up in the country, including Assam.
A hardcore ULFA militant was killed at an encounter with security forces at Namsai along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border on Saturday. According to police, the encounter took place in the afternoon with 12th Assam Rifles jawans where the militant died on the spot. The identity of the militant was not yet known.
All of a sudden security has been beefed up across the state. Security forces have concentrated on Guwahati on Friday following a threat by ULFA’s anti-talk faction. According to information, police has specific inputs of ULFA’s plan to strike in Guwahati likely on Saturday. That’s why, security alert has been sounded. Security forces have been put on maximum alert following fresh threat of attack in Sibsagar, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia towns.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday sought more tribunals to detect and deport the Bangladeshi immigrants from the state. During his meeting with Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday in New Delhi, Gogoi told Shinde that the state lacks adequate tribunals to detect Bangladeshi immigrants. According to him, the cases pending before the tribunals are huge in number and that more judges are required to expedite the process. Before that Chief Minister Gogoi submitted a set of guidelines for updating the national registrar of citizens before Shinde.
Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday said that the overall situation in the violence-hit BTAD areas and Dhubri was normal. Talking to reporters after getting update on BTAD situation from Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in Delhi, Shinde said that refugees in large number have left the camps. He said that those still remaining would also be rehabilitated.
An uneasy situation prevails in Nalbari town on Friday after unidentified miscreants shot dead at a local businessman in broad day light. Identified as Ashis Maskara, the victim was on his way to a bank when miscreants sprayed several rounds of bullets before looting Rs 30 lakh from his bag. Maskara was rushed to the civil hospital. But he was declared brought dead. Local people in large number came out alleging it law lawlessness and insecurity. Boxed by circumstances, police arrested two persons in this connection. Identified as Chandan Kalita and Kunaldeep Sindhu, they confessed that they attacked the businessman. Police further recovered 5 lakh rupees from their possession.
The Centre is likely to reject the Assam government’s request to set up more tribunals to clear the immigrants cases. According to sources, the Centre is likely to ask the Assam government to put the existing tribunals to better use by setting out modalities to fast track the pending cases.
Thirty six tribunals, the Centre believes, are enough to decide cases in quick time and it can be done by fast tracking 200 cases on a daily basis.
The Assam government writes to the Centre seeking 64 additional tribunals to fast track the deportation of the Bangladeshi immigrants. In a letter to home ministry, Dispur has asked for more than five extra tribunals in Dhubri, Goalpara, Nagaon, Barpeta, Cachar and Sonitpur and one each in Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri districts. The has 36 foreigner tribunals that are yet to dispose of about 3.13 lakh cases. Notably, the state has been witnessing decadal growth of a particular community in 11 out of 27 districts.
Thousands of tea garden workers are all set to go for a day long strike on September 19 demanding puja bonus on the price of ration items, tea workers of the state. The workers would sit in strike under the aegis of Akhil Bharatiya Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ABCMS) to demand a 20 per cent annual puja bonus before Durga Puja in October. ABCMS officials said that the demand is that the price of the ration items should be incorporated while calculating the annual bonus of tea workers.
Assam home department maintains strict vigil following the reports of mysterious disappearance of a section of refugees from the camps set up at the height of the BTAD violence. According to reports, some inmates of relief camps in the violence-hit Dhubri district have gone missing. These are suspected to have crossed over to Bangladesh.
Dispur has intelligence inputs suggesting that some inmates had crossed over to West Bengal but there is no specific inputs of the exact number of missing inmates. Altogether 213 camps have 1.92 lakh inmates in Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Chirang, Bongaingaon and Barptea districts.
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