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.
AGP activists are hoisting black flags in the district head quarters on Tuesday in protest against the police excess on the party protesters in Dispur. Party leaders and workers assembled in the district headquarters and wore black badges to protest police lathi charge on their party leaders on Monday when they staged dharna opposing the cabinet descision to provide asylum to the Hindu Bangladeshi immigrants.
Almost a week has passed since unidentified miscreants kidnapped Niron Kumar Mahajan from Dima Hasao district. But there is no trace of the construction company manager engaged in a four lane road construction project. Search operation is going on across the hills district. The top company officials have been monitoring the development. According to sources, the miscreants are in touch with the family members demanding a huge amount of money for the release of the Kolkata based construction company manager. But the senior police officials engaged in the rescue operation are tightlipped on Mahajan’s family members’ contact with the abductors. The project manager in Langting area when he...
The Supreme Court has asked Delhi and Dispur to file the status report on updating the National Register of Citizens. Hearing a writ petition moved by Assam Public Works on Monday, a division bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice MY Eqbal the Centre and the State to submit the progress report of the NRC update process. The court will further hear the petition after examining the status report on August 20.
Koliabor MP Gaurav Gogoi has demanded an All India Institute of Medical Science in Golaghat. In his speech in the Lok Sabha on Monday, Gogoi said that the premier medical institute would be a major boost for the health sector in upper Assam along with the neighbouring north eastern states. He further urged the ministry of external affairs to ban the manufacture of products made of rhino horn saying that to would help Assam discourage rhino poaching in Kaziranga. /
An alleged move to impeach Pranab Gogoi as Speaker created no less flutter among the Congress legislators in the first day of the Assam assembly’s budget session on Monday. But the Assam government made it plain and simple that it has no idea of how two ruling party legislators have been seeking legal opinion to remove Gogoi. The clarification came from parliamentary affairs minister Nilomoni Sendeka as he was caught in a war of words with Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma who raised the issue in the zero hour. Quoting a report published in a newspaper, Dr Sarma who recently put in his papers refusing to work under Tarun Gogoi as chief minister said that two Congress MLAs have taken legal opinion...
The break down in law and order, if any, can be attributed to the shortage of police strength. The Assam government on Monday informed the House that nearly 20 per cent posts of the 75,559-strong Assam Police have been lying vacant at present. Replying to a query by AGP MLA Keshab Mahanta during Question Hour in the Assam Legislative Assembly on Monday, state Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said 14,356 posts were vacant out of the 75,559 sanctioned posts in the police department. Hussain said that of these vacancies, four posts at the level of IGP could not be filled as "there are no eligible officers completing 18 years of service in the IPS cadre for promotion to...
Can a ruling party legislator play the role of the Opposition parties in the assembly? The question seems bizarre. But the answer is a simple yes if Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma is any indication. Hardly a month after he put in his papers as cabinet minister refusing to work under Tarun Gogoi, Dr Sarma on Monday criticized a section of his party colleagues alleging that they were trying to remove Pranab Gogoi as the Speaker. The outgoing education and health minister alleged that two Congress legislators have sought legal opinions to dislodge Gogoi as the Assembly Speaker who enjoys a separate degree of veneration among the legislators of all parties. Dr Sarma’s role was on the expected line...
In a bizarre incident that sends shickwaves across the state, a few miscreants killed a school boy for not getting ransome from his parents. The gruesome incident took place in Mongoldoi where Class VI student Nipon Nath was kidnapped a couple of days . The abductors sent message to his parents demanding Rs 10 lakh. But they killed Nipon and dumped the body in Sipajhar to be recovered on Monday morning. Police investgation is going on. But nobody has so far been arrested in this connection.
BJP has appointed Jadav Chandra Deka as the new leader of the party in the Assam Assembly. party leadership has reorganised the legislative team to strengthen the operations within the Assembly. Deka is new leader on the floor. Earlier, Prasanta Phukan took the lead in the legislative team on the floor. BJP has also appointed Manoranjan Das as the Chief Whip of the party and Dilip Moran as the Secretary of the legislative team.
The Assam assembly begins its budget session on Monday with a stormy note with the Opposition taking on the government alleging failure on all fronts. As the House met at 9 in the morning with question hours, the Opposition parties started launching scathing attack on the government citing the issues one by one. Despite repeated order from Speaker Pranab Gogoi, the legislators from AGP, BJP and AIUDF held the government responsible for the issues confronting the state for years. Later normalcy was restored and the Opposition allowed the House to proceed with the question hours.v Chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who is holding the finance portfolio, is all set to table the state budget on...
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