Skip to content Skip to navigation

Amit Shah on visit to Guwahati

BJP president is on stock taking visit to Guwahati nine months ahead of the assembly polls.

Immediately after landing at the Borjhar airport, he along with 10 other top leaders straightly arrived at the Machkhowa ITA to address the convention of the party’s north eastern leaders.

Later in the day he would met the state leadership to take stock of the state’s pre poll political landscape.   

He is scheduled to leave the city in the evening.

bjp

Comments

Ash Ketcham's picture

Wrong News. After landing at Borjhar LGBI Airport, he went to Hotel Rituraj where he conducted a personal meeting for more than one hour and then around 12:10 proceeded to ITA Machkhowa from where he left for Delhi.

Pages

Add new comment

Assamese Translator

Assam Times seeks English to Assamese translators!
Join our volunteer team.
Email editor@assamtimes.org.

Random Stories

Bank employees staged dharna

27 Mar 2015 - 3:03pm | Hantigiri Narzary
Hundreds of employees from Assam Gramin Vikash Bank(AGVB) staged dharna with banner,placards in front of Regional Office of AGVB at Kokrajhar along the RNB Road today in Kokrajhar demanding solutions...

Dissidence again!

12 Jan 2014 - 6:37pm | AT News
Dissidence against Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi refuses to die down if the ongoing affairs within the Congress legislature party is anything indication.A section of party legislators is preparing to...

25 Assam child scientists to attend national level NCSC in Jaipur

23 Dec 2011 - 1:02pm | Jayanta Kumar Das
25 child scientists from Assam will attend the 19th National Children's Science Congress to be held in Jaipur National University campus (Rajasthan) from December 27 to 31.The child scientists had...

Conspiracy against CM: Akhil

18 Jul 2012 - 2:50am | editor
Was the Guwahati moleststion case was a part to taint Tarun Gogoi? Akhil Gogoi thinks so. According to the KMSS leader, the entire incident instigated by an off duty reporter of Newslive may be a...

Other Contents by Author

Come February 25. Assam Congress is gearing up to hold a huge rally to be addressed by Rahul Gandhi in Guwahati.Disclosing this, senior Congress leaders told Assam Times that Gandhi is scheduled to address a huge rally on youth and women empowerment in the city.The rally was earlier scheduled on February 16. But only to be deferred to February 26. The rally aims at countering the Narendra Modi rally on February 8.
Two forest officials faced wrath of people in Majuli after a strayed rhino killed a local villager on Tuesday.The incident took place at 10 in the morning at Pohumara paddy field where despite repeated information of rhino terror, the forest officials needed nearly 4 hours to reach the spot.Local residents told Assam Times that they did inform the forest department in the wee hours that a full grown rhino is moving freely in the area striking panic among the villagers. But of no avail.At 7-30, the animal killed one person when he was trying to disperse the rhino. The shocking news also passed to the department.Three hours after it, two forest officials reached the spot. But strangely, the...
The Central Bureau of Investigation will probe into the death of Nido Tania at the hands of a few miscreants in New Delhi.The confirmation came from Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde when he met Tania’s parents in the capital on Tuesday.Before that Tania’s parents called on Rahul Gandhi who assured them of help. Tania’s was killed in racial attack in Lajpotnagar and six accused have been arrested in the face of growing protest.
Four BJP legislators are dead opposed to Prasanta Phukan as the party’s legislature committee head in the Assembly.They write to the party leadership to remove him from the post following the allegations of his role in the voting anomalies in the Rajya Sabha polls where the Opposition consensus candidate was defeated.According to them, Phukan has no right to continue his leadership in the party’s legislative body. But Phukan has urged the state election officer to make his ballot public to vindicate what he has been claiming.   
The body of Gopi Gogoi was identified a day after it was found floating on the Brahmapputra river in Guwahati on Monday.His family member identified it on Tuesday after the post mortem at GMCH three days after he left his home on Khowang for Guwahati to attend the Narendra Modi rally.State BJP has expressed shock at the mysterious death of the its activist along with Ananta Hazarika who died after falling from a moving train carrying him back to Dibrugarh from Guwahati.
The body of Gopi Gogoi was identified a day after it was found floating on the Brahmapputra river in Guwahati on Monday.His family member identified it on Tuesday after the post mortem at GMCH three days after he left his home on Khowang for Guwahati to attend the Narendra Modi rally.State BJP has expressed shock at the mysterious death of the its activist along with Ananta Hazarika who died after falling from a moving train carrying him back to Dibrugarh from Guwahati.
BJP legislator Prasanta Phukan has written to the Chief Electoral Officer seeking a probe into the allegations that his ballot was cancelled in the recent Rajya Sabha polls.In a letter on Tuesday, the MLA from Dibrugarh further requested the state poll authority to make his ballot papers public.    Notably, his ballot is understood to have been rejected for openly displaying in the voting room before dropping into the box.According to what the four other legislators alleged, Phukan ignored the party whip by getting the ballot verified by the party agent deployed on the day.Phukan, however, called it a Congress-sponsored conspiracy to malign his image in the upper Assam...
After a brief lull, terror seems to have revisited Karbi Anglong district where a local businessman has been kidnapped at gunpoint.The incident took place on Monday night when armed miscreants kidnapped a local businessman from his residence in Rajbari area in the hills district.Identified as Bijay Das, he was running a wine shop in the area. A combing rescue operation is in progress to rescue Das.
A strayed rhino is unleashing no less reign of terror killing a person in Majuli on Tuesday.The animal was spotted in the open paddy field at Pohumora area early in the morning to be chased away by a group of local people. But it sneaked into the nearby village in the wee hours.The angry animal killed a person when he along with a few others tried to disperse it from the river island. The local resident was hit by its horn and then trampled to death.  Forest officials arrived in the spot at 8-30 in the morning and they are monitoring the animal.
Sensation prevails in Demow area in Sivasagar district after the local residents spotted two bodies on Tuesday.The bodies were spotted at Disang Rajabari area near the National Highway 37 in the morning. The bodies were believed to have been dumped beside the road. Police investigations are going on.