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.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the eviction drive would not halt until and unless the illegal settlers are not evicted at all. Talking to reporters on Wednesday, Gogoi said that not even a single illegal settlers would be spared. He made it plain and simple that the entire drive against the rampant encroachment in the wetlands and hill tops would be carried out as per the law. District administration officials told Assam Times that altogether 46 pucca and huts were demolished apart from 21 temples ad mosque and 35 boundary walls to clear 14 bighas of land.
The ongoing drive to clear the encroached wetlands is likely to touch several high rise buildings in Guwahati in a day or two. According to sources, if this drive is allowed to continue a 17-storied building owned by Himatsingka Group may be demolished at Pathorquarry. Other under the scanner in Chachal include Ginger Hotel, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Hamja Properties are likely to be demolished. The possibility grips a day after the eviction officials demolished a part of the Hyundai shpwroom in Ganeshguri on Tuesday. Talking to Assam Times, district administration said that the drive would continue till the city is not made...
Assam gets a raw deal in the Narendra Modi government’s rail budget. Once again if the various political parties, Centre’s step motherly attitude reflects in the Modi government’s rail budget.This was more or less of what the various political parties, organizations and individuals said after rail minister Sadananda Gowda tabled his maiden rail budget in parliament on Tuesday. The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee said the Railway Budget has nothing new for the state and that it is full of the promises made by the erstwhile UPA government. Party leaders told Assam Times that the budget has hardly anything for Assam.Asom Gana Parishad has alleged large scale discrimination towards the...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is arriving in Guwahati on Wednesday after meeting president Pranab Mukherjee, prime minister Narendra Modi along with several other AICC leaders and Union ministers during the last three days. Gogoi on Tuesday met Mukherjee in New Delhi apart from calling on Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Union human resources development minister.
FINER has welcomed the rail budget after it was tabled in Parliamnt by Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday. According to the industry body, the rail budget has not only rightly diagnosed the ailments of the Indian Railways, but also prescribed a clear roadmap and corrective actions ahead. FINER officials said that Gowda has come out with a strong action plan to complete pending projects including projects of national status in the North Eastern region in a time-bound manner.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi pins hopes on a Rs 1,450 crore central fund for infrastructure development in10 state universities. The fund would also be utilized to set up the proposed women varsity in the state. Gogoi raised the demands when he met Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani in New Delhi on Tuesday. According to official sources, Gogoi sought a special incentive package for development of higher education and adequate funding for promotion of literacy and education in the state. Apart from seeking a special incentive package to boost the higher education sector by attracting private investments, Gogoi underlined the need of central funding for filling up of...
Amid simmering controversy over the eviction drive in Guwahati, the Assam State Human Right Commission has asked chief secretary to conduct an enquiry into the allegations that Chandra Devi had to lose her life after failing to bribe the eviction officials. A division bench of Commission, comprising its chairman Aftab H. Saikia, member Tarun Phookan, taking suo moto cognizance based on news paper reports and a complaint issued notice to the Chief Secretary asking him to cause a prompt and inclusive enquiry to be conducted into the complaint as well as the news item submit the report thereof before this Commission within 30 days of receipt of the Notice, vide its order dated 07/07/...
A huge Rs 750-crore project will give Guwahati fresh lease of life. The entire fund would be utilized in revamping the capital city’s drainage system. According to the Kamrup Metro district administration, the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority was working on a scientific drainage plan for the city. A detailed project report for the plan has been under discussion. GMDA is in the process of identifying low lying areas to start a scientific survey to plan a modern drainage system.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi urged the Centre to set up a counter-insurgency coordination mechanism involving police forces to deal with the insurgency problem in the state. During his meeting with prime minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Monday, Gogoi said that the Maoists have spread its base in some pockets of upper Assam. The chief requested Modi to include Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts within the ambit of the integrated action plan to combat extremism. Gogoi apprised Modi of the plans to strengthen policing the riverine areas by setting up river police stations.
Floodwaters are still wreaking havoc in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts displacing thousands of people. The river Brahmaputra and its tributaries are flowing above the danger level striking panic among the people in both the districts. The recurrence of rains in the catchment areas seems to have added more woes these days. The district administrations have yet to set up relief camps for the affected in Jonai revenue circle of Dhemaji district and Subansiri revenue circle of North Lakhimpur district.
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