Much to a major boost for Congress in rank and file in Assam, Prashant Kishore has agreed to help the ruling party in the assembly polls March next year.
The brain behind the grand alliance in Bihar, who held a round of informal talks with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi recently, left New Delhi for Guwahati on Thursday afternoon.
Sources told Assam Times in New Delhi that the poll Chanakya will hunker down with Tarun Gogoi and Rahul Gandhi on Friday to finalise the pre poll strategy when the Congress vice president will on a two days visit to the state on Friday.
"Gogoi recently talked to Prashant at the instance of Rahulji who agreed, in principle, to help Gogoi retain the power in Dispur," said a senior AICC leader.
Notably, former Chief Minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta met Kishore in the capital on Tuesday evening and discuss the strategy an anti-Congress and anti-BJP wave in Assam. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar helped Mahanta met the poll strategist at the Bihar Bhawan in the evening.
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HAFLONG: Yet another protester succumbed to injury in Maibong police firing on Thursday sending huge shock and anger across the state on Friday. Identified as Prakash Haksama, he died on his way to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital on Friday wee hours. With this, the toll in this incident of police firing in Maibong railway station has gone up to two. The policemen sprang upon a crowd of people who blocked the rails in the morning in protest against the alleged move to annex the hills district in the proposed greater Nagalim. Hours after the firing, MITHUN Dibragede died as he was rushed to the hospital.
GUWAHATI: Defying rebel diktat national tricolour is fluttering in the sky of Assam as the north eastern state joined the nation wide 69th Republic Day on Friday. Governor Jagdish Mukhi is unfurling the tricolour and took salute of the army, police and para military forces at the Khanapara Veterinary Playground in the morning. All cabinet ministers are hoisting the flag at their assigned district headquarters amid an elaborate security arrangement. ULFA-I, NDFB along with other north eastern states have enforced general strike from Thursday mid night opposing the red letter day celebrations and appealed to the people to boycott the Republic Day.
HAFLONG: Normal life remains heavilly disrupted in Dima Hasao from early in the morning on Friday following the 48 hour bandh fall in protest against the police firing in Maibong on Thursday. Roads in the hills district are wearing a deserted look and all shops and markers are remaining closed under the impact of the bandh which began from 5 in the morning. In Maibong, the epicentre an eerie silence prevails after the hills township near Haflong was put under curfew following the Thursday's incident where two persons were left critically injured in police firing. The incident took place at the Maibong Rail Station where hundreds of people blocked the Silchar-Guwahati train in protest...
KOKRAJHAR: Senior Kokrajhar based journalist Govinda Nath passed after prolonged illness on Thursday night. He was 55. Nath, who was associated with Asomiya Pratidin as correspondent was one of the most popular persons in the district who have been suffering from multiple organ failure. Many organizations and individuals have deeply condoled his death and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.
HAFLONG: Two persons are battling with dealth at Gauhati Medical College along with nine others when security forces sprang upon a crowd of people as they blocked the rail tracks on Thursday at Maibang near Haflong alleging a silent move to leave Dima Hasao district in the name of the proposed greater Nagalim. The incident took place in Maibong where police resorted to open firing to disperse the protestors who allegedly pelted stones at them when the clash took an alarming turn. Mithun Dibragede and Sunujit Sengyung who were critically have been battling to survive at the GMCH while others have been rushed to the local hospitals. Top ranked police and civil officials have...
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GUWAHATI: ULFA(I) has released a video opposing the 69th nationwide Republic Day celebrations slated for Friday. Apart from a speech explaining the reasons behind the futile celebration of the red letter day, the video displays a group of rebels setting afire the national tricolor. ULFA(I) along with other major north eastern rebel outfits are enforcing a 24 hour general strike opposing the Republic Day on Friday. The rebels in the video have reiterated the appeal to boycott the celebration saying that for decades the ruling clique in the distant Delhi has been depriving the north eastern region and its dumb millions of their rights with colonial suppression.
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GUWAHATI: The United Liberation Front of Asom(I) has owned up the responsibilities of the attack on army in Namsai where a jawan was killed on Wednesday. In a statement, the rebel outfit's military head Paresh Barua confirmed that they launched the attack on the army troop with grenade explosion in the morning. Security forces are stepping up a combing operation in the entire area in search of the rebels who exploded the grenade. The incident took place in the morning where the rebels exploded the powerful grenade on the road near Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh as the troops crossed the area in the run up to the Republic Day on Friday.
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