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.
The Nagaon police have arrested yet another person in connection with Wednesday incident where traders assaulted a group of former ULFA rebel as they were raising fund to feed the flood hit. Popularly known as Mithu, he was on the run as police arrested him on Thursday afternoon. The trader hired him along with three others whom police arrested hours after the incident. As police took him yo the Nagaon police headquarters, over 200 youths thronged in front of asking police to hand over Mithu to the crowd. A section of yarn youths tried to forcibly enter into the police station forcing the police to close the main gate. Interrogation is going on. All they would be produced...
The recent attack on a team of former ULFA rebels by a trader and his associates runs into a hail of anger and protest and anger across the state. The anger grips among the youths who virtually want to leave a strong message to a section of traders whom the authorities have not been able to rein in. Social media is flooded with the fiery comments and condemnation of the new generation people who want to rein in these traders who have been allowing the common people to suffer. Nilkamal Bora, a College student said,”if we still remain mute they will keep harassing us. Who are these traders yo hire goons to attack the youth as they were collecting funds to feed the flood-hit.”...
The Nagaon police have arrested four traders charging them with assaulting the former rebels who were believed to have been raising fund to feed the flood hit people. According to information, the police have arrested the owner of the shop Raju Das along with his associates Manu Das, N Das, Utpal Das who assaulted the former rebels. But two persons who were behind the incident have yet to be identified.
A group of traders in Nagaon assaulted a few surrendered ULFA rebels alleging extortion in the name of fund meant for the flood hit people triggering statewide reaction on Wednesday. The incident took place at around 11 in the morning on Tuesday in the central Assam town where the traders refused to pay anything to the surrendered rebels. Then the rebel tried to convince them and this the altercation broke out. A group of 15 traders who were allegedly waiting somewhere around the area suddenly appeared the scene attacked the former rebels. Police and CRPF rushed to the spot and thus the situation was brought under control. The traders have alleged it to be an...
One month has passed since the management has locked out the Borgaon Tea Estate in Biswanath district allowing 70 workers and their family members to languish in dying agony. Despite repeated appeal, the management is allegedly not in a mood to withdraw the lock out. Even the intervention of the administration has failed to end the logjam. Caught in confusion, the workers sent a memorandum to additional chief secretary through the local BDO demanding on July 24 demanding immediate intervention. But the deadlock exists. The workers have alleged that the management signed a tripartite pact with the workers and labour department last year. But not even a single demand has...
Assam chief minister Sarbanand Sonowal will make a presentation of the implementation of the flagship schemes before prime minister Narendra Modi send BJP president Amit Shah on Monday. Other BJP chief ministers are also attending the meeting convened by party president Amit Shah who is announcing a huge blue print for the 2019 general election.
Three persons died when the vehicle in which they were travelling collided its head on a moving truck in Gohpur on Saturday. The incident took place when the trio who were travelling by their four wheeler and ad they reached the Chariduwar College the vehicle colluded its head on a speedy truck. The trio dead on the spot. The deceased were identified Nipan Dutta, Nipa Saikia and Bhairab Krishna Nath.
The overall flood scene improves following thr halt of rains during that last 70 hours. The water level of thr Brahmaputra and its tributaries have shown a receding trend and if it continues the situation would improve further during the next few days. But the plight of the people trapped in thr flood waters refuses to die down. Lakhs of people are still in the relief camps set up by the authority. “The water level is receding. But we don’t know when we would be able go back. How will be able to resume normal life in the ravaged house,” said Irabala Saikia in Nagaon who shifted to a relief camp. Deepak Bordoloi, a relief camp inmate in Mayong area in Morigaon district broke down in...
Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses worries over the serious health conditions of two young scribes undergoing treatments in the city based hospitals and wishes their early recoveries. The forum also appeals to the government to immediately launch a comprehensive health insurance scheme for the benefit of all working journalists of the State. It may be noted that Gautam Hazarika from DY365 news channel is presently admitted at GNRC Six-mile campus after a brain stroke on the night of last Monday. On the other hand, Kushal Lahan from Amar Asom newspaper faced an accident in Meghalaya on 15 August and currently admitted at Apollo Hospital Guwahati. The JFA also urged the chief minister...
There seems to be marginal let up in the flood scene during the last 24 hours following the halt of rains that lashed the catchment areas. The water levels of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries have shown receding trend during the last 12 hours much to a major respite for millions of people who have been rendered homeless. But the blues have refused to die down where there is report of ten more deaths and with this the toll had gone up to 40 till Friday. Assam Chief minister Sarbanabda Sonowal who came to New Delhi on Wednesday called prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and apprised him of thr situation who assured the flooded state of all help to...
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