Come January 4. A resurgent Assam Congress is set to go all out against BJP one and a half years ahead of the assembly polls. Rahul Gandhi will formally kick-off the campaign at a huge rally in Khanapara.
With “Betrayal Day”, the ruling party in the state will launch Mission 79 Plus in 2016 polls to counter BJP’s Mission 84 Plus.
Senior party leaders told Assam Times that APCC president Anjan Dutta has a target 60,000 party workers in the rally to be addressed by Gandhi which would be a poll bugle for the party.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has already gave hint of capitalizing on BJP’s U turns in land deal and big dams, NEIIPP suspension, slash in the MNREGA budget, suspension of ration in tea gardens.
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The Election Commision of India has today announced the dates of the upcoming Assam Assembly elections along with other four states. As per the ECI's announcement elections in Assam will be held in three phases, starting from March 27. The other two phases polling will be held on April 1 and April 6. The counting of the all five states' elections takes place on May 2. In Assam the first phase polling will be held for
The All Assam Students' Union(AASU) has come victorius in the Gauhati University Students' Association's elections. As per reports the AASU supported candidates have won important posts like the vice-president, general secretary, assistant general secretary, among others.
Guwahati: Alleging that the city based press club had ‘designed to give space to a separatist leader of a banned armed outfit which emerged as a terrorist outfit to threat the sovereignty and integrity’ of India, an FIR has bene lodged against the president and general secretary of Gauhati Press Club (GPC).
Senior journalist Biswajit Nath, who is a former general member of GPC, lodged the compliant at Latashil police station in the city on 23 February 2021, arguing that the press club authority ‘organized a formal audio interview with Paresh Barua (self-styled military chief of United Liberation Front of Assam-Independent) at its auditorium’ by 6.30 pm on 21 February last.
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KOKRAJHAR: Noted singer Zubeen Garg has appealed to the ULFA-I to release the two officials of Quippo on humanitarian ground.
"Please do not play of politics on human life. People wish to live with their family. So Quippo officials should be released",Garg said.
Garg said above remarks in Kokrajhar while attending the cultural nite "Ragam: The Bodoland Sanskriti festival" which concluded on Sunday evening.
Garg inaugurated the cultural evening amidst a huge gathering of of his fans.
BTR chief executive member Pramod Boro was also present in the event.
Dhemaji: Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped hint of the announcement of poll schedule for Assam along with West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry by the first week of March.
Addressing a crowded rally in Silapothar in the north Assam district of Dhemaji on Monday, Modi said that last time the country’s poll panel announced the poll schedule on March 4 and that’s why, it was his guess that the Commission will do it this time by the first week of March.
Opening a slew of government projects, the Prime Minister said that what the north Assam has received since 2014 was never since Independence.
Reiterating the various development initiatives, Modi said,” Bogibeel Bridge...
Guwahati: In a move that brings ray of respite for two kidnapped officials of a private oil exploration firm, ULFA-I has reserved it's decision of extreme steps in view of the mounting pressure from many sides.
Confirming this self styled military head of the proscribed outfit Paresh Barua said as he was talking to a section of journalists over phone in Guwahati on Sunday.
Barua, the fugitive rebel leader told the journalists that they reserved the extreme steps in view of the appeal from the people of all sections.
He however said that extreme step always may not suggest capital punishments as has been interpretated by many media houses.
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Guwahati: The United Liberation Front of Asom has warned of dire consequences for two private oil exploration firm officers whom they kidnapped two months back from Arunachal Pradesh demanding ransomed.
In a statement issued from an undisclosed location, the proscribed outfit said that since no party has come out to meet the demand during the specified time they could execute ultimate punishment for Ram Kumar and Parnab Kumar Gogoi at any moment.
The private oil exploration firm Quipp has yet to make it position clear while the government also allegedly had been least bothered.
ULFA release the disturbing statement on Friday when the family members of the duo in captivity along...
Guwahati: State BJP leadership have hunkered down in Guwahati on Friday to hammer out a slew of strategies for the upcoming Assembly polls due in April.
Attended by Narendra Singh Tomar, Jitendra Singh, Baijayanta J Panda, CM, Ranjit Das and Himanta Biswa Sarma, the meeting discussed the fate of a few party veterans and they options lying ahead to exploit the advantage.
Former Union minister Rajen Gohain and MP Ramen Deka also attended the meeting were the leadership were believed to have tried them to convince the effective poll strategies.
The due were strong contenders for tickets to contest the polls while the party leadership are indecisive on their fate.
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"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...
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