KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi, who is currently at Guwahati jail, talking to media while brought to GMCH , Guwahati for routine health checkup on 07-09-20. Photo by UB Photos
Peasant leader Akhil Gogoi urged anti BJP parties and forces to remain united.
Talking to reporters at the GMCH premises after his routine check up on Monday, Gogoi said that all parties including the proposed regional parties by the All Assam Students Union should stand tall under one flag to beat BJP in the 2021 assembly poll.
Gogoi gave hint of his party’s support to an united forum against BJP.
Guwahati: BJP is set to script yet another history of landslide victory in the north eastern region in the next Lok Sabha polls if Amit Shah is to be believed. Sounding panchayat poll bugle at a huge rally in Guwahati on Saturday the party president claimed to have got wind of a surging wave of the people in the eight states. According to him, out of 25 seats in the region BJP alone would get 21 seats drawing huge applause from the party workers who thronged in thousands to her him at the Veterinary Playground in Khanapara. In his address, the BJP chief asked the booth level members to leave no stone unturned to achieve the vision. "This is my target for 2019 polls...
GUWAHATI: People are throbbing in thousands in Guwahati on Saturday to hear Amit Shah when the BJP president is sounding bugle for the upcoming panchayat polls. Party in rank and file have been gearing up to make the rally a success where Shah along with other heavyweights in the party will explain what the grass root leaders and activists should do to ensure a landslide victory in the rural body polls which would be the base for the next year’s Lok Sabha polls. Hundreds of party workers have arrived in the city while some others from the far flung areas came on Friday. The party has provided buses for the workers to come to the rally in the city from the far flung areas of the state....
GUWAHATI: KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi on Friday tore apart the NDA government at the Centre for removing the special category state status for the northeastern states. Talking to reporters in Guwahati, Gogoi said, "Assam is known for pathetic economic health where there is hardly any process of development. The state has been lagging behind on the infrastructure front. The Centre accorded special category status in 1969 to help the state get more fund. But the BJP led government has finished it.” “Not only Assam. Other north eastern states will have to pay heavy price after losing the status thanks to Narendra Modi,”said the KMSS leader.
GUWAHATI: RTI activist Akhil Gogoi has given hint of a massive agitation in Assam to keep at bay the RSS-BJP sponsored Hindutva culture calling it a huge threat to the state’s social fabric. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Friday, Gogoi, the KMSS leader said the All Indian Kisan Sabha would also be the part of his organization’s statewide agitation to thwart the culture in question. "After being voted to power, BJP has been trying to destroy our age old social fabric in the name of Hindutva which to make Assam another Gujarat which we wont allow to happen. We are fully prepared to fight,” said Gogoi.
GUWAHATI: The Indo-Bhutan bonhomie is set to receive a huge boost if the golden jubilee celebration of the formal diplomatic relations is any indication.The Himalayan kingdom celebrated the Festival of Assam at Thimphu on Thursday and Friday at Hotel Taj Tashi, which was attended by the Home Minister of Bhutan, Dawa Gyeltshen, Home Secretary of Bhutan, Sonam Topgay, the Ambassador of India to Bhutan, Jaideep Sarkar and the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Bhutan. A high level delegation led by the Minister, Cultural Affairs Department of Assam, Naba Kumar Doley, 8 MLAs and other officials also participated in the events.The speakers in the event recalled the age old relations between...
GUWAHATI: Brisk preparations are afoot in Guwahati for the BJP rally where party president Amit Shah is sounding panchayat poll bugle on Saturday. Party leaders have been closely monitoring the preparations for the rally where at least a dozen of party leaders are addressing the grass root level leaders and workers. A section of party workers has already arrived in the city on Friday and many others are on the way. The party has provided buses for the workers to come to the rally in the city from the far flung areas of the state. The rally for the grass root level leaders and workers assumes significance since the saffron party will go it alone in the poll unlike the assembly polls...
GUWAHATI: Guwahati, the gateway to the north eastern region has become a safe route for gold smuggling these days. Security forces attached to the Northeast Frontier Railway seized twelve pieces of gold worth Rs 70 lakh from a New Delhi bound train on Friday. Acting on a tip off, a team of railway police raided two passengers from the Rajdhani Express just before it departing the city in the morning and seized the gold biscuits brought from Dimapur. Later, the duo were taken to the hospital since they brought the biscuits in the question in their rectum.
KOKRAJHAR: Public properties worth several lakh along with many crucial documents reduced to ashes when a devastating the BTC secretariat caught fire in Kokrajhar on Friday. The fire which is believed to have originated from electric short circuit ravaged a portion of the ground floor in the wee hours. Five fire fighters took around four hours to bring the situation under control. The extent of damage has yet to be assessed.
GUWAHATI: A special court in Guwahati remanded Sdipto Sen to 14 days judicial custody after the Enforcement Directorate produced the Saradha Chit Fund chief was produced before it on Friday. The court further sent Sen’s main associate Debojani Mukherjee to the jail after she was produced before it in the same multi crore scam where the chit fund duped lakhs of investors in the state a couple of years back. The Enforcement Directorate probing the multi crore Sharadha chit fund scam produced Sudipto Sen before the special court in the morning. An ED team brought the duo on Thursday afternoon to be kept at the Panbazar police station for the night. Before being produced before...
GUWAHATI: The Enforcement Directorate probing the multi crore chit fund scam is producing Sudipto Sen before a special court in Guwahati on Friday to carry out more investigation. Sen, the Saradha chief and his main associate Debojani Mukherjee were brought to the capital city to be kept at the Panbazar police station. The duo would be produced before the court by the afternoon, said a police officer in Guwahati.
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