If you are moving to Chennai and want any kind of help please contact the Assam Association, here are the details of the office bearers of the association.
Sulakshan Saikia (President): 9444391730
G.N.Baruah (Secretary): 9445005186
B.K.Sharma (Asstt.Secretary): 9445005171
Kishore Kalita (Organising Secy): 9840588738
Pradeep Hazarika (Organising Secy):9884269490
Himangshu Hazarika(Organising Secy):9176445196
S.K.Borah(Organising Secy):9445005962
Indukalpa Saikia(Megazine Secy): 9840943308
P.K.Bhattacharjee (Treasurer & Cultural Secy):9445005154
PermalinkSubmitted by Dr. Devdas Kakati on Fri, 05/12/2014 - 21:16
Very happy to know that the association is continuing to do well and growing. I had the privilege of being the President of the association around 1981-82 when I was a Professor of IIT-Madras ( now Chennai). During Assam Movement, we published the Brahmaputra Beckons. You will be happy to know recently a book by me on the life & events in Majuli was published by Partridge India of Penguin-Random House Group :"An Insane Moon". I can send some details if you send me a contact email address.
With best wishes to you all, Devdas Kakati. 05 December 2014.
AIUDF has not announced the second list of candidates on Saturday for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.The party on Saturday morning decided to announce the names of the polls candidates in Silchar, Tezpur, Koliabor, Lakhimpur. But that has not happened.“We would announce the second list of the candidates very soon,” party leaders told Assam Times.The party is believed to have finalized Dr Parvez Ali Ahmed in Silchar, Mani Kumar Subba in Tezpur, Vijay Tiru in Koliabor.
KMSS on Saturday made it plain and simple that under no circumstances, they would halt their agitation for the landless lot.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, officials of the organization said that they would fight for land for the farmers in the forest and water bodies.They further said that they would intensify their demands for arrest of Chief minister and the revenue minister at a huge rally in Guwahati this months.
APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita downplayed the NDTV opinion poll saying that these are not true.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of a function in Guwahati on Saturday, Kalita said that each of the elections are some challenges and that it is not easy to win an election.It assumes significance two days after NDTV opinion predicts absolute majority for NDA and the poll suggest clean sweep for Congress.
Railway police foiled a nefarious blueprint of a car bomb explosion when they seized a huge consignment of explosives in Paltanbazar on Saturday.Acting on a tip off, railway police in Paltanbazar picked up three persons from a train and seized these explosives from their possession.During interrogation, they are believed to have confessed that these explosives were meant for NDFB-S to be exploded a powerful car bomb. Interrogation is in progress.
Tension is simmering near Diphu after a group of people clashed with police at Matipung forest on Saturday.The incident took place when over 100 landless people were trying to occupy a plot of land earlier Congress leader and Diphu candidate Biren Singh Ingty received from the government.Police resorted to blank firing to disperse the local residents immediately after they locked in a clash with the illegal settlers.Then senior police and civil officials arrived in the spot and the situation was brought under control.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has asked his party men not to repose any faith on the opinion polls.In his response to a question posed by Apurba Bhattacharya in the video conference at Rajiv Bhawan in Guwahati on Saturday, Gandhi said that these predictions are not true.Gandhi’s response to the APCC leader assumes significance two days after NDTV opinion predicts absolute majority for NDA and the poll suggest clean sweep for Congress.
BJP is likely to avoid Koliabor constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.State party leadership think it necessary to check further division of non Congress votes in the crucial seat where chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s son is in the fray. Central leadership prepared a panel of three contenders. But the state leadership on Friday suggested the high command not to field any candidate where AGP candidate Dr Arun Sarma is set to extract the mileage.
Dispur police arrested Akhil Gogoi in a fresh case on Saturday before the court of chief judicial magistrate in Kamrup had sent the KMSS president to the jail.Gogoi was produced before the CJM court in the morning where he was remanded to judicial custody for yet another period of 14 days.Gogoi has been languishing in jail from March 5 after five days in police custody in connection with the self immolation of a KMSS activist. The Gauhati High Court on March 19 will hear his bail petition in three other cases.
Normal life continues to remain disrupted in some parts of the state for the third consecutive day on Saturday following the AKRSU-sponsored Assam Bandh raising separate Kamatapur demand.The bandh is response in the Koch Rajbanshi dominated areas in Barpeta, Kokrajhar, Morigaon and Darrang districts.A string of uneasy incidents took place during the last 24 hours where bandh supporters damaged several vehicles.A section of supporters have been enforcing the bandh by burning tyres on the roads. Roads in these pockets remained deserted, schools and colleges, shops and markets remained closed under the impact of the bandh that came into force from early in the morning on...
Congress is believed to have finalized the candidate for the Mongoldoi seat.The crucial seat has three top contenders and that’s why, the party’s poll panel found it difficult to finalise it.The announcement is expected on Saturday. Former MP Kirip Chaliha, Pranjeet Chaudhury, Pradyut Bhuytan are the three top contenders for the seat.
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