Gogoi faces wrath; effigy burnt
JINTUL TALUKDAR, BARPETA: Minority students are angry with the chief minister Tarun Gogoi who dropped border development minister Siddique Ahmed on Tuesday.
Hundreds of the students hailing from the minority communities on Wednesday burnt the effigy of Tarun Gogoi at Kalgasia in Barpeta district for Siddique’s exclusion.
Talking to Assam, the protestors said that Gogoi has insulted the minority communities by replacing Ahmed who has been making no less contribution for the uplift of the communities.
They further threaten to launch statewide agitation against Tarun Gogoi anti-minority policies.
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The Chirang district administration has relaxed curfew from 10 in the morning. But it would reclamp it at 4 in the afternoon.The decision was taken in view of the normalcy during the last 12 hours where no untoward incident took place.People in this trouble torn district are coming out for shopping amid round the clock vigil by the security forces.
There seems to be no respite from the bloodbath in the BTAD areas. The toll has gone up to 33 with the recovery of 9 more bodies in Baska on Saturday.Local residents and security forces on Saturday morning recovered nine bodies from the bank of the river Beki hours after the miscreants set on fire over 50 houses in Nonke Khagrabari area near Salbari.The bodies were identified as Ibrahim Ali, Majira Khatun, Ariful Islam, Joygan Khatun, Babul Ali, Latifan Dewa, Aariful Islam, Illima Khatun.Apart from clamping curfew, the Kokrajhar, Chirang and Baksa authorities have issued sight at shoot order to deal with the situation.Forest minister Rockybul Hussain, parliamentary secretary Etwa Munda,...
BTAD situation seems to have gone from bad to worse if a fresh orgy of violence is any indication.The worst-hit district is Baska where militants have killed at least nine more people forcing the authority to clamp curfew in the BTAD district.Local residents claimed to have recovered nine more bodies from a village in Nayanpur after the militants set on fire at least 40 houses of a tiny hamlet.Five bodies were identified as Somesh Ali, Hajera Bibi, Rahima Khatun and Aayesha Khatum. With this, the death toll in the BTAD clash has gone up to 20 during the last 24 hours. Further the miscreants set ablazed a local forest office in the evening. On the other hand, army...
War of words among the political leaders seems to have escalating on every passing day in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls.Barpeta BJP candidate Chandra Mohan Patowary on Tuesday hit back at Nilomoni Sen Deka saying the agriculture minister has been running a rotten department.Addressing a poll rally in Bhawanipur on Tuesday, the former AGP president said that Deka was in the helm of affairs of a rotten department like agriculture and that’s why, he sees everything rotten.His reaction came a day after Deka called Patowary a rotten banana.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday said that dissidence is surviving in media only and that there is no crippling dissidence within the ruling party. Talking to reporters in Barpeta after holding a poll rally, Gogoi said that the party in rank and file is gearing up for the polls.According to him, Congress will be able to put up a good show in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Gogoi said called Narendra Modi a cuckoo-like season bird. He further said that BJP president Sarbananda Sonowal would face defeat at the hands of Ranee Narah.
The Gauhati University Inter College Kabadi Tournament gets underway in Bajali College on Thursday.Gauhati varsity vice chancellor inaugurated the event participated by 24 groups of boys and equal number of groups of girls from 25 colleges.
A section of cow thieves has been unleashing terror in Barpeta district these days.Cow theft has been a normal case in Bajali and Bhawanipur areas in the lower Assam district. Police on Wednesday caught four such thieves and seized 7 cows from their possession.The thieves and cows were picked up from a Bolero pick up van bearing No AS-01-DC-0992 in Bhawanipur.An irate mob caught the thieves and assaulted them along with their relatives before handing over to police.Police resorted to lathicharge to bring the situation under control.
Veteran political leader Sarbananda Choudhury is no more. The former Bajali MLA died at his residence on Wednesday after prolonged illness. A pall of gloom descended at the premature death of the politician.Various political parties, organizations and individuals paid their last respect to Chaudury and conveyed their deep sympathies to the bereaved family members.
Hundreds of KMSS activists staged demonstration in front of the Sarupeta outpost on Monday in protest against police excess on their fellows in Guwahati on Monday. They further raised slogans demanding land patta for the landless lot in Bajali subdivision.
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