ULFA-I uses guerrilla tactic only for self defence and not for waging any waragainstIndia, said Dr Abhizeet Asom.
In a message sent to media on the Protest Day on Saturday, the ULFA-I chairman said that the outfit has been struggling to save the rights of the indigenous people of Assam.
According to the elusive ULFA-I leader, the "immature" studentleaders who spearheaded the Assam Agitation surrendered before New Delhi when they signed an accord to deport Bangladeshi aliens in 1985 with Rajiv Gandhi.
"However, India in contrast is seeking military solution to our legitimate struggle to establish our birthright as enshrined in international statues and our indigenous masses are responding to the call of the hour to own what belong to them," said the ULFA supremo.
He further spoke of the India, Bangladesh land deal with reference to the history of East Pakistan. The outfit also said that the move to give refugee status to the non-Muslim Bangladeshis are strange.
BJP president Rajnath Singh is on a day long visit to Assam to hold three huge poll rallies on Saturday.Accompanied by state unit president Sarbananda Sonowal, Singh is scheduled to hold the first rally at Diphu at 11-30 in the morning. He would campaign for Joiram Englang who of late, joined the party.Then he would leave for Karimganj where he would address another poll rally at 2 in the afternoon. Then he would leave for Sivasagar to address his third poll rallies to campaign for Kamakhya Prasad Tasa.
In major boost for poll bond Ranee Narah, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to hold a huge rally in Lakhimpur on Sunday.The ruling party has ferried around 20,000 people to the rally hiring various buses and other four wheeler vehicles from early in the morning.Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita are also scheduled to attend the rally to campaign for the Union minister for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.The Congress president is scheduled to land at the Lilabari Airport at around 11-30 in the morning. Then she would straightly leave for the rally by a chopper. The polling in Lakhimpur will take place on April 7 along with Jorhar, Tezpur, Koliabor...
The Election Commission seems to have stepped up efforts to enforce model code of conduction for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Flying squads on Saturday suddenly conducted a raid at a hotel in Sivasagar town where Jorhat Congress candidate Biojoy Krishna Handique had a meeting with a few party men.But Handique said that he was holding a party meeting inside the hotel and the flying squad found nothing to incriminating materials to be seized.The raid was conducted hours after Handique distributed money to a section of tea community leaders. But the money in cash was removed minutes before the flying squads arrived in the hotel.
After Sokal Bela, yet another Bangla daily is closing. Its none other than Sangbad Lohori which is set to wrap up its existence from April 1. But the employees are at their wit’s end as soon as they received the notification by the management. Employees told Assam Times that they got to know the closure move through the notification bearing No Ref no ST/63/14, dated 26 March 2014). The management, however, offered a month's salary to its employees as a token of support to them. But that’s too inadequate. The employees have appealed to the management to reconsider its decision. But there is hardly any hope. The federation also urged Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi and Meghalaya...
Apprehending law and order breakdown after the sensational rape and murder of a tribal girl in Boldia gaon, the Chirang district administration has clamped curfew on Saturday.The curfew in the entire area was imposed from 6-30 in the evening when some of the local residents tried to call it the beginning of the riot-rerun.A section of the local residents told Assam Times that a circle of the youths belonging to a particular community have been trying to foment trouble in the area.
Chirang police have arrested altogether 14 youths in connection with rape and murder of a Bodo girl on Saturday.According to information, the survivor herself identified four of them who picked up the girl from the river where they were fishing in the morning.Police interrogation is going on to extract more and more confession that can help them get more clues.The incident took place at Boldi gaon near Amguri along the Indo-Bhutan border where around 7 miscreants picked up a girl to be raped and murdered in a nearby jungle.Another girl, however, managed to survive who is giving vital clues to the police officials probing the sensational case.Hours after the victim’s body was found by the...
Titabor police on Saturday got remand of Akhil Gogoi to be shifted from Guwahati in connection with three cases pending against the KMSS president. The court of Kamrup Chief Judicial magistrate allowed Titabor police to shift Gogoi from the Guwahati Central Jail after the transit remand was sought on Saturday.But hundreds of KMSS activists are staged dharna in front of the jail to prevent police from shifting their leader to Jorhat.
Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that the people of Assam would get nothing but raw deal if BJP forms the government at the Centre. Address a poll rally to campaign for BK Handique and Pawan Singh Ghatowar at Mahmara in Sivasagar on Saturday, Dr Singh said that the entire opposition party is busy with Narendra Modi and that Modi, if made the prime minister, would have no business but the own party and the party men.According to the prime minister the north east has immense potential for sustainable development and that a stable Congress government is required to tap these potentials.
Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh said the ten year long wonderful performance of the UPA government and the Tarun Gogoi government in Dispur would be the key to the victory of the ruling party in the general elections in Assam.In his address at a huge poll rally to campaign for BK Handique and Pawan Singh Ghatowar at Mahmara in Sivasagar on Saturday, Dr Singh said that the Congress led government has delivered the goods almost on all fronts.He said that his government, if allowed to retain power, would take strong measures to rein in the price line. According to the prime minister the north east has immense potential for sustainable development and that a stable Congress government is...
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday predicted stool defeat for BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in Assam.Addressing a huge rally in presence of prime minister Dr Mamnohan Singh in Sivasagar, Gogoi said that the voters have already decided not to support BJP in view of the wonderful performance of Congress government in Dispur and NDA government in Delhi.He said that the ruling party will get more than 10 seats in the polls this time adding that the voters are intelligent and aware of the parties and their performances.
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