Thowra MLA Sushanta Buragohain gets home department a week after he took oath as parliamentary secretary. Rupjyoti Kurmi was given power portfolio while his counterpart in health department is Dr Rumi Nath. Aarti Kachair gets social welfare department while kamalakha Purkayastha will look after the water resources.
The chief minister has given animal husbandry department to Sanjay Raj Subba. Manika Bora will look after the revenue department while Hemanta Talukdar will be the parliamentary secretary for agriculture.
PermalinkSubmitted by SANDEEP LANGTHASA on Wed, 23/09/2015 - 12:02
This is a ploy of Congress government giving portfolios before the Assembly elections. It means that Congress is giving a chance to its MLA to loot the money as much as possible before the elections so that they can cover up the bank balance as Congress is going to lose the upcoming election in Assam.
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The dissident Congress legislators would have to face action if they proceed with the practice.AICC General secretary Digvijaya Singh told reporters in Guwahati on Saturdaythat that the party would take action if a member is found to have violated the partyline. Before revealing it, a Congress MLA from Guwahati, who is a close associate of Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma left the executive meet calling it a monotonous.Talking to the waiting reporters outside the Rajiv Bhawan premises, he said that he is tired of hearing the same for the last 30 years.
AICC General secretary Digvijaya Singh on Saturday made it clear that there would be no poll pact with AIUDF. Talking to reporters in Rajiv Bhawan after the party executive body meeting, he said that the alliance with BPF will continue.His statement assumes significance amid speculation of theAICC high command’s decision to strike deal with AIUDF. AIUDF president Badruddin Ajmal also confirmed the development.
AICC General secretary Digvijaya Singh outrightly denied voice of dissidence within the Congress legislators and urged the party leaders and workers to be prepared for the next Lok Sabha polls.In his address at the party’s executive body meet in Rajiv Bhawan on Saturday morning, Singh said that its time for the party workers to remain prepared for the polls. Only Singh, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita spoke in the pact meeting. This was much to the utter disappointment of the dissident legislators who have been vocal of Tarun Gogoi and a few of his trusted ones. After holding the meeting, Singh left for New Delhi along with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
Despite heavy presence of security forces Guwahati till remains a safe transit route for arms smugglers.Guwahati police seized a huge cache of arms and weapons from the Paltanbazar area on Thursday evening. These include 8 pistols. Four persons including a woman were arrested for the seizure from their possession.
The Assam government will go for quality parameters under which, off-campus PhD degrees will not be recognised during recruitment and promotion of faculty.Even serving faculties with off-campus PhD degrees who have got time-scale promotions during recent years will be affected. Notably, in the past few years we have seen a rising trend of research scholars opting for universities where rules are relaxed and there is less academic pressure.
All India United Democratic Front in Assam accused the Congress- led state government of failing in implementing minority welfare schemes. During Question Hour, AIUDF MLA Abdur Rahman Ajmal raised the issue of fund allocation under Multi-Sectoral Development Programme (MSDP) during the 11th Five Year Plan in 13 minority concentrated districts of Assam.
In yet another incident of rape, a 29-year-old woman died after being brutally raped and dumped by a driver in Silchar on Thursday. The incident took place when the woman and her husband were travelling by a private vehicle from Bolpui town of Mizoram to Lumding in on Wednesday when the driver, feigning problem in the vehicle, asked the man to push it, they said. As soon as the man got off, the driver sped away with the woman inside.
Stung by incessant criticism Guwahati police on Thursday arrested a businessman charging him with holding syndicate.Popularly known as Naanka, the businessman was nabbed by police at 2-30 in the afternoon. His arrest comes a day after police raided a house in Beltola area for holding a coal syndicate in Nalbari.
AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh is on a three days visit to Guwahati amid speculation of an effort to mend differences within the ruling party.The dissident ministers, parliamentary secretaries and MLAs are likely to reveal their resentment before Singh on Friday. Immediately after landing at the Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, the AICC general secretary in charge of Assam affairs drove to the Hotel Green wood Resort to hold talks with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and party president Bhuibneswar Kalita. Dissidence is believed to have come up in the crucial meeting along with some other issues. The dissident camp is all set to raise the issue Friday. ...
Stern action awaits fake financial institutions. Disclosing this in the Assam assembly on Thursday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Nilomoni Sen Deka said that as of March 6, 2013, a total of 192 cases had been filed against 117 such companies. He said that police have also seized 106 bank accounts and Rs 93.81 lakh. He said that this was apart from seizure of property worth Rs 24.28 crore and six bighas of land have also been seized from fake financial companies.
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