Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday made it plain and simple that his government wants 2014 voter list as one of the supportive documents to update the national registrar of citizens.
Responding to the legislators who asked him to clear his position, Gogoi said that the list would be required if the documents earlier announced by the Supreme Court are not available for an indigenous citizen.
He said that his government has already moved the Supreme Court for consideration which has not so far rejected the affidavit.
PermalinkSubmitted by MAITAOYA RICK on Tue, 11/08/2015 - 00:35
Mr. Tarun Gogoi is going mad because the assembly election of Assam is approaching. He is such a person who knows only vote bank politics. He is a useless Chief Minister of Assam who has no interest to protect the indigenous communities of Assam rather he is ready to protect the illegal Bangladeshis who entered illegally to our land. The vote bank politics of Congress in Assam will lead our state to be part of Bangladesh. Tarun Gogoi will sell Assam to Bangladesh and he along with his family will settlen down in London.
A joint mechanism would be devised to defuse the Assam-Nagaland border tension. This was simple what Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju told reporters after meeting Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and his Nagaland counterpart in Guwahati on Thursday. Before leaving for Golaghat, Rijiju said that the senior officials from both states will meet frequently at a designated place so that no lapses occur in future. The mechanism will be worked out as soon as possible. He further said that the government was looking to reinforce the central forces and that there is need to deploy more CRPF men along the border. According to the Union minister, the clash broke out because of lack of...
The AGP-sponsored 12 hour statewide bandh ended as soonas the clock struck 5 in the evening. Backed by atleast 13 organizations, the bandh was total to be marred by a few untoward incidents. Bandh supporters in many districts blocked the movement of vehicles by burning tyres while they vandalized many shops in some places. Shops and markets, schools and colleges, banks and offices remained closed under the impact of the bandh. In Guwahati, ASTC was running its buses causing immense inconvenience for the commuters. The bandh was called in protest against the police firing in Golaghat on Tuesday and Wednesday where three killed and several others sustained injury. //
At least five persons including a policeman sustained injury in Golaghat district in a fresh clash between security forces and protesters Thursday. The clash erupted in Numligharh when protestors in large number blocked the National Highway. A section of protesters threw stones at police vehicles forcing the security forces to resort to blank firing apart from bursting tear gas shells to disperse protesters. /
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has appealed to Assam and Nagaland chief ministers to amicably settle the issue of border disturbance through dialogue. Talking to reporters in Guwahati after attending the north east chief minister’s meeting on Thursday, Sarkar said the presence of central force may be helpful in this regard. So presence of central force and effective intervention and management is needed from their the Centre’s side. According to him, the Assam and Nagaland chief ministers should persuade their people to think in a proper manner and sort out the differences.
The uneasy situation refuses to die down in Golaghat a day after three people were killed in clash with security forces. The Army is holding a flag march in violence hit areas to bring the situation under control a day after the administration clamped curfew in some sensitive pockets. People in many places thronged in thousands in protest against the police firing on Tuesday and Wednesday. In the tea garden areas, armed with bows and arrows a section bandh supporters blocked the roads.
The AGP-sponsored statewide bandh is total disrupting normal life on Thursday. AGP leaders and activists along with some other bandh supporters came out to the streets in many places. A section of the bandh supporters burnt tyres on the streets to block the vehicles. Shouting slogans, the protesters asked chief minister Tarun Gogoi to step down immediately owning moral responsibility for the border flare up. Our correspondents from Sivasagar, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, BTAD, Darrang, Nagaon, Barpeta, Dhubri have reported total bandh on Wednesday. Backed by 13 organizations, the AGP sponsored bandh will end at 5 in the evening.
What triggered the flare up along the Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat district? The answer is bizarre if one go through the home ministry report. According to the report sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the entire shocking episode was triggered by a trifle and dispute between Salman Sama, an Adivasi farmer and a Naga person Ekon Lotha. Then it took an ethnic turn when the Adivasi National Liberation Army took the side of Salman while NSCN-IM and Khole Kitovi backed Lotha. But the situation was compounded by simmering protest by the so-called activists like Akhil Gogoi indirectly backed by a section of Congress leaders---opposed to Chief minister Tarun Gogoi. Violent protest...
The Centre is in a mood to relocate more forces to Golaghat district bordering Nagaland to defuse the escalating tension. These are apart from the existing 200 companies of central paramilitary forces already in the region. It further wants the 10,000 people displaced resettled under the protection of the central forces. The Central government also wants Nagaland to announce compensation equal to the Rs. 8 lakh each announced by the Assam government for all those killed in the ethnic clash.
Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju meets chief minister Tarun Gogoi and his Nagaland counterpart TR Zeliang in Dispur on Thursday. Rijiju reviewed the law and order situation along the inter state border with Gogoi before talking to TR Zeliang who apprised him of the situation prevailing in Nagaland. A joint statement is expected anytime from now. Rijiju prepared his Guwahati schedule suddenly on Wednesday night hours after chief minister Tarun Gogoi criticized him for not visiting the state. The chief minister duo are likely to come out with a joint statement after the end of the meeting in the afternoon. On Wednesday, Union home minister Rajnath Singh asked Gogoi and...
Union home minister Rajnath Singh asked Assam and Nagaland chief ministers to defuse tension along the borders of the two states where at least 18 people lost their lives in Golaghat districts. Singh’s appeal came to Tarun Gogoi and TR Zeliang a day before the much-awaited fence-mending talks in Dispur on Thursday. The Union home minister told both the CMs to come up with a joint statement on Thursday. Talking to Singh over telephone on Wednesday, Gogoi sought from him additional companies of paramilitary forces to restore normalcy in the affected areas. A joint Secretary would be visiting the trouble torn areas on Thursday to take stock of the situation.
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