Skip to content Skip to navigation

Naba Sarania won

Independent candidate backed by Janagostiya Aikhya Manch and ULFA (Pro-talk) leader Naba Kumar Sarania(Hira) won the No. 5 Kokrajhar Lok Sabha seat at a huge votes.

Sarania defeated his nearest Independent candidate Urkhao Gwra Brahma by a margin of over three lakhs of votes.BPF candidate Chandan Brahma adjusted third spot in the election.

Add new comment

Random Stories

Brisk polling in Meghalaya

27 Feb 2018 - 8:41am | AT News
SHILLONG: Amid a massive security blanket voting begins in Meghalaya to elect 59 legislators in the 60 member assembly on Tuesday. Altogether 18.4 lakh voters are exercising their franchise at 3085...

Sadak Puja sends message of peace and intergrity

16 May 2017 - 6:20pm | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
Cutting across barrier of community and religion, people from all casts and religion joined hands unitedly in the observation of the Sadak Puja at  Guwabari-Bahadurpara village along the...

Rangiya women still deprived of education

6 Apr 2010 - 10:45pm | anjanjyotipatowary
With ministry of women and social empowerment keeping provisions of equal access to education for women and girls ensuring the rights in order to eliminate discrimination, universalize education,...

Women soccer to enthral football lovers

18 Aug 2017 - 12:22pm | AT News Guwahati
The Narangi based Luitpaar Club has organized a friendly women football match on Saturday (19 August 2017) in the city. The participating teams include the city based Handique Girls' College eleven...

Other Contents by Author

With few weeks to for general election various political parties and organisations have already started campaigning in the area to gain public support. The pro-talk ULFA leader and a consensus candidate of Janogosthio Aikhya Mancha in Kokrajhar Lok Sabha seat Heera Sarania today visited Fakiragram area in Kokrajhar as part of the election campaign. Sarania said that peoples of the Bodoladn region wanted change and will vote a change.Sarania said that the ruling party in BTC administration and sitting parliamentarian has failed to address the grievances of the majority people for which the public will vote a change. He has expressed serious concern over killing, kidnapping and extortion from...
Utter shock and anger seem to have gripped Kokrajhar a day after three members of a family were killed in the name of witch hunting.The incident took place at Borjhora village in  Monglajhora area under Bogribari police station  where the trio remained clueless.Police have so far arrested 13 persons in this connection after two bodies were exhumed from a jungle.  The entire incident came to light after the victim's youngest son, who is a constable with 7th AP Bn got to the incident . According to Suresh, victim's elder son who lives nearby, about 10-15, with sharp weapons came  on the evening of Wednesday and forcefully took away his mother (Bangali) and d elder sister...
Three people are believed to have been killed in the name of witch-hunting in Kokrajhar.The incident took place on Thursday in Mongoljhar where the three people including a woman have been remaining untraced for the last 48 hours.Acting on the complaints, police have picked up 11 villagers on Saturday morning. They are being interrogated to ascertain the truth.
A woman committed suicide by lying before a moving train in Kokrajhar on Thursday.Identified as Jaya Saki, the 40 year old woman committed suicide on the rail track near the Gauranga bridge in the afternoon.  She is believed to have committed suicide because of domestic affairs hours after her girl eloped with a youth.