The Asam Agitation which started in 1979 and ended with The Assam Accord in 1985, is a major timeline of history of Assam.
The Assam Accord, which sought to end a six-year-long agitation against illegal immigrants in Assam, was signed between members of the All Assam Students Union (AASU), and state and central governments just a few hours before Rajiv Gandhi was to deliver the Independence Day address in 1985. Immediately afterwards, the student leaders were catapulted from their hostel rooms into the corridors of power. Their party, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), was voted to power the same year, with Prafulla Kumar Mahanta becoming the youngest ever chief minister of an Indian state.
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Key clauses of the Assam Accord remained unimplemented during Mahanta's often controversial tenures (1985-1990, 1996-2001), and through three terms of Congress rule, which ended with the BJP's victory in the state in 2016. Central to the Accord was deportation of those who could not prove their roots in India prior to 24 March 1971. In 2015, the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) based on the 1971 cut-off of the Accord began. The first list was released in December 2017, and did not include 14 million names.
Assam: The Accord, The Discord authored by journalist Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty looks at the making of the Assam Accord and its long shadow on the state, through political gamesmanship between principle players, periods of ULFA and Bodo militancies, and right-wing propaganda that has split the state along communal lines.
GUWAHATI: Traditional Assamese Bihuwan or drape along with lemon and smoked rice(kumol chaul) might get the GI tag. Courtesy Assam Agricultural University (AAU) which is working overnight to ensure it. GI is granted by the GI Registry Office based in Chennai, established under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration & Protection) Act, 1999 that came into force with effect from September 15, 2003. The varsity did no less help muga silk, Assam (orthodox) tea, Karbi Anglong ginger and Tezpur litchi are the other products procure the rare tah. AAU director Dr GN Hazarika said that the university has undertaken an initiative to offer its expertise to organisations seeking GI...
HOJAI:Altogether 21 teams from different state have joined the National Sub Junior Hockey Championship which begins in Hojai on Friday. The participating teams started polling matches from early in the morning since chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal is formally opening the clash in the afternoon. Talking to www.assamtimes.org, the Hojai Sports Association officials who have organized the event said all participating teams have arrived in the venue. They said all players are getting adequate accommodation to put up wonderful performance in the tourney which Hojai hosts for the first time.
GUWAHATI: Trouble brews for Mamata Banerjee a day after the West Bengal Chief Minister called the updated NRC in Assam a conspiracy against the Bangla speaking people.The Gauhati police have booked Banerjee when TN Das, a lawyer based in Guwahati moved the Latashil police station with a complaint against her. In his FIR, Das said that her inflammatory speech at the public meeting in Birbhum might create communal riot in Assam where the people of different castes, creeds and religious have been living peacefully for decades.Acting on the FIR, the police booked the chief minister under the Section 153-A of the Indian Penal Code.Banerjee in her speech said she won't tolerate the conspiracy of...
NEW DELHI: A soon to be convened tripartite talks over the Assam Accord is expected to clear the citizenship controversy. This was what the impression of Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya after the AASU adviser along with Dipankar Nath and Lurinjyoti Gogoi called on Union home minister Rajnath Singh in the capital on Thursday. The three member AASU delegation has warned Singh that they were not prepared to compromise the implementation of the Assam Accord and the cut off date for detecting and deporting the Bangladeshi immigrants. The AASU team told the reporters here that they have made it plain before the home minister that they won't allow the Centre to proceed with the Citizenship (Amendment...
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Rajnath Singh said no Indian living in Assam would be left out in the updated NRC in Assam. Replying to Saugata Roy of Trinamool Congress in Parliament on Thursday, Singh said process is on to update NRC in the north eastern state under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court. Singh was responding to Roy who alleged that NRC is a conspiracy in Assam against the Bangla speaking people in the state. His party chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked her MPs to go all out against NRC in Parliament. She in her address in a public rally in Birbhum called it a conspiracy to drive out the Bangla speaking lots and said that if...
Guwahati: Expressing utter dismay on a responsible politician’s communal remarks over the ongoing process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) updaion in the State, the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urges the politician in power to exercise restrain while making a public statement. The Assam based forum, while reacting sharply to a recent outburst of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee claiming that the NRC updating process in the State was a ‘conspiracy to drive away Bengalis’, also appeals to the conscious people of the neighboring State to prevent their talkative chief minister from making such inflammatory statements. The much waited updation of NRC of 1951 is...
GUWAHATI: The Dibrugarh police probing the APSC scam have indicted 25 more civil and police officers in its next charge sheet filed before a special court on Thursday. The special operation unit set up to probe the cash for job scam has chargesheeted all the accused they have arrested already whom the court sent to the Guwahati Central Jail. The police have enclosed the details of the forensic reports, answer scripts of the accused officers in the civil service examination along with the charge sheet filed before the court. This is said to be the third charge sheet in this nefarious case where the candidates who bribed chairman Rakesh Paul and his associates to ensure selection and with...
MARGHERITA: More than 200 AASU leaders and activists blocked the National Highway No 38 in Margherita on Thursday for one hour demanding immediate steps to repair the vital road which has been lying in a shamble for years. Talking to reporters, Margherita AASU unit president Dipankar Buragohain and General Secretary Bulbul Saikia said the vital road which has been playing a pivotal role in the surface communication network has been remaining in a dilapidated condition only because of the lackadaisical attitude of the government. The protestors slammed chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who before the assembly polls promised to rev up the road sector, has gone back to his own promise....
KOKRAJHAR: Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju has drawn no less ire in BTAD areas on Thursday a day after he told in Parliament that the Centre has no plan for separate statehood. Many BTAD organizations have categorically slammed the junior minister saying that his information in Parliament was unwanted in view of the ongoing tripartite talks in Delhi. All Bodo Students Union has pledged to go all out against the minister saying that his remarks in Parliament was irresponsible indeed.
Guwahati, 4 January 2018 — In a historic development northeast India gets its first Skill Development Center of Excellence, an initiative through industry-academia participation under government facilitation when Electronics Sector Skill Council of India (ESSCI) signed an MoU with Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati to jointly set up a state of the art Center of Excellence (CoE) at the University campus in Guwahati. ESSCI is one of the sector skill councils setup as an autonomous body by Nation Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under MSDE (Ministry of Skill Development). The MoU was signed by Chief Executive Officer of ESSCI Mr. N.K.Mohapatra, and Vice...
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