"We have not seen any difference as the most BJP workers are either truncates of the Congress or the AGP in our assembly constituancy," said a teacher when asked her about the poll-prospect of different parties in the upcoming election in their constituency. She is from the Teok assembly constituency that falls under the Jorhat Lok Sabha constituency. She added the only ruling BJP has till now election related activities. “We have seen any countable activity of the other parties. What we have seen is BJP's enthusiastic poll-related preparations," she further said. The Teok constituency is currently under the AGP's hold. The constituency was once a strong-hold of the regional party till 1996. In the 2001 election Congress candidates late Membor Gogoi triumphed trouncing the then AGP MLA, Renupoma Rajkhowa. From then to 2011, Gogoi represented the consitiuancy in the state assembly till 2001. In his last assembly election in 2011, he defeated the then AGP candidate, Hemanta Kalita in a margin of around 29 thousand votes. In the 2016 assembly elections, Rajkhowa who contested as a BJP-AGP combine then, defeated Congress's Pallavi Gogoi in a vote-margin of around 5 thousand. The assembly constituancy consists of four Zila Parishads and 19 gaon panchyats. Poll-data reveals that two mouja of the constituency out of the total six played pivotal role in the recent assembly election of the constituency. “In our constituency, no can predict which party will triumph,” said Naren Hazarika, a local veteran Congress worker.
Leeladhar Dutta, a retired government employee and a social worker said that no parties except the BJP have come to meet the voters in our constituency till now. “ Unlike earlier, now-a-days we have felt strong presence of the BJP in our constituency. Many Congress and AJP workers have joined the ruling party. Some government scheme beneficiaries, who were earlier Congress supporters, also joined the BJP, ” he added.
Party sources revealed that Rajkhowa, the incumbent MLA of the constituency, may not contest in the upcoming election due to her growing age. Rajkhowa was elected to assembly thrice. She won in the assembly election for the first time in 1991 after the untimely death of her husband Lalit Chandra Rajkhowa, an Assam agitation leader who achieved the title 'Lion Man' from late prime minister Indira Gandhi. His wife also triumphed in the 1996 assembly elections.
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Local residents in Goalpara district beat him a suspected militant to death on Saturday night. Three motorcycles suspected to have been used by the militants were recovered from the area.One bomb is suspected to be concealed in the MLA's house and a bomb disposal squad of the police reached the place, they added. Another IED went off at Jaleshwar High School. The other explosions in Goalpara district took place at Moriakichi Bazar, Gaurnagar, Porahita and Jamadar Bazar areas. In Dhubri, the areas hit by the blasts are Airketa, Sirajkuthi and Metarteri.
A series of low intensity blasts has forced the security forces to fan in lower Assam on Sunday. Suspected ULFA militants on Saturday night set off eight IED blasts in a space of 90 minutes targeting the house of an AIDUF MLA and crowded markets in Goalpara and Dhubri districts. There, is, however, no report of casualty.ULFA, along with some other insurgents group, gave a call for boycotting the Republic Day celebrations. The first blast took place inside the residential complex of Moinuddin Ahmed, MLA of All India Democratic United Front, at Jaleshwar in Goalpara district.
Over 20 people have been injured when a passenger bus slipped into deep gorge in near Guwahati on Saturday.The accident took place at around 2-30 in the afternoon when the passenger bus was on its way to Kamakhya and suddenly it lost control and fell on a gorge where several people were rescued by police and local residents.
Governor J B Patnaik said that the government's counter insurgency operations have fetched dividends where the republic day boycott call was defied. In his address after unfurling the national flag in Khanapara in Guwahati, he said that steps are being taken to bring about overall socio-economic development in the state.
He said that the government is leaving no stone unturned to put Assam on a track of rapid development process. Patnaik also said that government was committed to fighting corruption.
The N-E insurgent outfits had called for boycott of Republic Day Celebrations from 1am to 5 30 in the morning.
Normal situation prevailed on Republic Day on Saturday. Trains and air services operated as usual though long distance and city private buses kept off the roads as the transport operators gave holiday to their staff on account of R-Day. National flags were seen fluttering in banks, educational institutions, etc., remained closed. Buses, private taxis and autorickshaws of state-run Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) plied as usual. Private vehicles and large number of people on foot were also seen making their way to the various R-Day celebration venues across the state.The N-E insurgent outfits had called for boycott of Republic Day Celebrations from 1am to 5 30 in the morning.
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The media fraternity of the city will hoist the national
tricolor tomorrow (Jan 26) at Guwahati Press Club. The program will
begin at 11 am sharp. Every one is requested to participate in the
program with an aim to pay tributes to the martyrs of India’s Freedom
Movement.
Asom Mohila Samata Society in association with Directorate of Field publicity, Dibrugarh organized an awareness programme on ‘National girl child day’ at Naduwa Panchayet, Dibrugarh on January 24.
Yet another IED was found at Goreswar Gasbari area on Thursday morning. The IED was planted by suspected anti-talk faction group of National Democratic Front of Bodoland near a culvert of Baihata-Goreswar road. Investigation is gong on. ULFA and NDFB are among ten outfits who have called a general strike on Jan 26 and urged people to boycott the Republic Day celebrations.
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