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Caught in a deep dilemma over the citizenship amendment controversy Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is hunkering down with Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Monday. Sonowal, who has arrived in the capital is holding talks with the Union home minister at the latter’s official residence to discuss the controversy over the move to amend the citizenship Act where the Hindu refugees from the neighbouring countries would get the citizenship status. Since the controversy is directly linked to the ongoing process to update the NRC, the issue is also expected to figure in the discussion. Further, the Chief Minister is expected to apprise the party leadership of the political scene hardly a month...

The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-I) has warned against the steps to eulogize the outside personalities by installing their statues who have downplayed Assam and its people. In a statement released on Sunday, the outfit’s publicity secretary Aronodoi Dohotia said that the state’s political leaders who have been kowtowing their bosses in the distant Delhi should stop paying homage to the outside heroes. He said Assam has no dearth of heroes to be highlighted. Eulogizing outsiders would undermine the heroes at home, said the ULFA(I) leader adding questioning the major roads and projects named after Nehru who bad farewell to Assam in his radio speech during the Chinese aggression.

Assam paid glowing tribute to Dr Bhupen Hazarika on the third death anniversary of the music maestro across the state on Saturday. Jalukbari broke into a sea of humanity as thousands of his fans made long queue to catch a glimpse of the grave. Many day long cultural programmes, mostly, the Bhupendra Sangeet are lined up on the occasion heavily attended by the people of all walks of life. Some others thronged his Nijarapar based residence to pay homage to the film maker and music maestro. The Dada Saheb Phalke award winner breathed his last on this day five years back at a hospital in Mumbai.

Senior minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma blamed it all on the country’s internal disparity for allowing the north eastern region to linger in the back stage of progress. In his speech at a three day long convocation in Goa on Saturday, the health and education minister said the north eastern people have been lagging behind without any fault of their own. “ What crime an Assamese has committed? What goes wrong with a Naga? Who can point out at the Arunachalese which was why they can’t ride on a Metro when people of Karnataka and Delhi can? According to him, the time is not far when every citizen would have the access of development. He observed that a heavy expenditure on the law and order...