Guwahati : The All Assam Students Union( AASU) and the All Minority Students Union(AMSU) are exchanged in a bitter war of words.
In a press conference at Guwahati on Saturday, The AMSU Organising Secretary Ajijul Hussain Khondakar, chief organizing secretary of AAMSU had criticised the AASU Adviser, Sammujal Bhattacharya as a Congress stooge and also warned of a backlash against the Asomiya community in the minority dominated districts of Dhubri and Goalpara.
AASU central leaders as well as the Anchalik Units have come down strongly against these statements and they have issued strong warning to the AAMSU to abstain from such dangerous statements.
AGP and BJP have strongly criticised the AMSU statements. BJP wants the government to initiate criminal proceedings against the AMSU leaders. AGP President Brindaban Goswami in a statement wondered why the CM has not uttered a single word on the inflammatory statements made by the AMSU.
Various Organisations in the State have also come out strongly against the AMSU for their statements.
Meanwhile the AMSU in a damage control exercise has said that they had not said that they would drive out the Majority Population from the minority dominated areas but rather they were apprehensive that due to the recent steps taken by AASU and NESO, the minorities may feel aggrieved and they may retaliate.
PermalinkSubmitted by charlie on Tue, 31/07/2007 - 03:50
This is very serious statement given by AMSU Organising Secretary Ajijul Hussain Khondakar, chief organizing secretary of AAMSU and he also criticised the AASU Adviser, Sammujal Bhattacharya as a Congress stooge and he also told driven out Asomiya community in the minority dominated districts of Dhubri and Goalpara how dare he got that he will remove asomiya from those district dinth he donth know how powerfull asomiya people mr.ajiijul u must be a forener that why u told this things u canth remove asomiya from their own house motherland if u touch asomiya people u canth imagine what scquence will come and whole assam will burn and u also told AASU adiviser DR. sammujal congress sooge it make us laughing joke u donth know how he scarifice his life for student community and asomiya people for betterment for future so giving any statement think thrice and donth hurt asomiya people feelling and donth try to play politics in dirty way , the govt now should saw courage to arrest him on anti indian.
Bangladesh would soon extradite ULFA general secretary Anup Chetia as soon as the legal process completes.
Disclosing this, Bangladesh home minister Sahara Khatun said in Delhi that Dhaka won’t detain him after the court procedure is over. She also said that the extradition treaty to exchange the fugitives was at the final stage. Before that she held a crucial round of talks with Union home minister P Chidambaram where they agreed to end border firing incidents.
Guwahati would hold a huge rally on Sunday and Monday to unit the mega dam protestors. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Friday, organizers Ajit Kumar Bhuyan and Udayaditya Bharali said that renowned dam experts including Ramswamy Aiyer, Himangsu Thakkar and Ruhan D Suza who would address the rally.
Two more persons died allegedly because of starvation in a tea garden in Cachar district. The two workers have died at Bhuvan Valley tea garden on February 18 and February 22. This was what the Barak Human Rights Protection Committee alleged on Friday.Notably, the garden was closed for four months from October 8, 2011 to February 8, 2012 and the labourers did not receive any wages which led to the starvation deaths of eighteen workers.Notably, the toll in the garden allegedly due to starvation rose to 12 in the garden during the last six months. The garden re-opened on February 9. But its authorities have still not taken any positive actions Bin terms of providing urgent medical and food...
Assam Chief Minster Tarun Gogoi on Friday sharply criticized noted social activist Medha Patkar a day after she called upon the people to stand united against the NHPC owned big dams.
Speaking at a function in Guwahati, Gogoi said that big dam would give the state pace of development and that what Patkar said was totally baseless.
Notably, the social activist on Thursday addressed a huge rally in Lakhimpur where she criticized the government for proceeding with the deal with NHPC.
Power minister Pradyut Bordoloi inaugurated the 2nd machinery mart 2012 at a function in Guwahati on Friday.
Renowned manufacturing companies displayed their best machineries in the mart being organised at the Maniram Dewan centre by the CII. Machines like evacuators, cranes and stationary would make the construction works more easier. The mart would conclude on February 27.
Assam director general of police Jayanta Narayan Chauidhury on Tuesday has expressed grave concern over the stepped up activities of the Maoist cadres in at least seven districts.
Talking to reporters in Guwahati on Tuesday he said that there were reports of Maoist activities from Golaghat, Sivsagar, Tinsukia, Lakhimpur and Dibrugarh.
He said that there were some areas under about 22 police stations in these districts where the red rebels are active and trying to cobble support.
His comment assumed significance two days after Union home minister P Chidambaram met Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in Guwahati and reviewed the law and order situation.
More and more rhinoceros have been translocated to Manas National Park from Kaziranga. This was done on Monday under the Indian Rhino Vision 2020. The four one-horned endangered rhinos were translocated from Kaziranga National Park and later released in the Buraburijhar range of Manas on Monday. With the latest translocation, a total of 16 rhinos have been released into the wild in Manas National Park, under the Rhino Vision programme.
The Sikkim Lok Sabha MP, Mr Prem Das Rai is an epitome of purposeful entry into politics with his remarkable commitment and idealist standing in public life. A highly educated man from the best of Institutions and with a background of having worked in Corporates, he is a man in a mission. Though he is serving his first term in the Lok Sabha, he exudes a veteran’s qualities with his sound understanding of his own State and the entire north east. Today he is amongst the few most promising leaders from the north east in Indias political horizon who has a clear roadmap for the future. We met him in a rainy morning in New Delhi. Some excerpts of our interview
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A set of spell binding performances by members of the late Dr. Bhupen Hazarika's family, the gospel-choir group, the Nagaland Singing Ambassadors, and the father of Naga blues, Rewben Mashangva, and his 11-year-old son Saka, from Manipur, lifted spirits and brought the rich sounds and enchanting melodies of the North-east to Delhi this evening.
Organized by the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research at the Indian International Centre, the performancesto a packed audience began with an hour-long tribute to Dr. Hazarika by his nephew Mayukh and his wife Laili Dutta Hazarika who brought an ensemble of musicians from Guwahati and played some of the maestro's best known compositions...
Dibrugarh police have arrested four ULFA militants in on Sunday. Acting on a tip off, a police team led by superintendent of Police Arabinda Kalita launched an operation in Phulbagan area where the four ULFA cadres were arrested. Six grenades and 150 live bullets were seized from their possession. The arrested cadres were identified as Numul Gogoi from Moran and Dipankar Borah from Chabua, Dulu Saikia and Robin Borah. Police interrogation is going on to extract more information.
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