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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NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Tarun Gogoi said the ongoing process to update NRC will be a meaningless exercise if the Centre ensures safe passage of the Citizenship(Amendment) Bill,2016 in Parliament. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, the three time chief minister said thr NDA government and Assam BJP leadership have been working overnight to clear the Bill in question where the grant citizenship to the illegal Hindu settlers whose names would not be there in the updated NRC. "Then why NRC is required? Crores of rupees have been spent. Won't it be a meaningless exercise?," said Gogoi. The former chief minister further is unhappy with thr first NRC draft alleging lack of...
KOKRAJHAR: Security forces claimed to have busted a NDFB(S) camp inside a dense jungle in Kokrajhar on Tuesday. Acting in a tip off, army, police and para military forces conducted a raid inside the Rangapara Reserved Forest near Saraibeel where the make shift camp was discovered. At least 15 rebels were believed to have been camping in it for a couple of days. But they managed to desert it before the crackdown. Police seized some used materials including blanket, knives from the deserted camp.
GUWAHATI:Nishamoni Deka, an accused ACS officer in the APSC scan has been sent to judicial custody on Tuesday after the end of police custody for the ACS officer involved in the APSC dcsm. After the end of her 14 days remand police did not seek her in their remand again. Deka went underground hours after the police launched the massive crackdown against the accused ACS, APS and allied service officers in November. Later she surrendered before the police who got her in their remand for 14 days.
GUWAHATI: Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang and his Assam counterpart Sarbananda Sonowal has met his Assam counterpart Sarbananda Sonowal have agreed to formulate a slew of strategies to move the Centre to improve connectivity network in the north eastern region. The duo met in Guwahati on Monday where they discussed a common strategy for a connectivity boost. New Industrial Policy for North East region in line with Act East Policy and means to meet mounting employment problem in the region also figured in the meeting. They agreed that unemployment would go out of hand unless a joint approach to facilitate youth uplift was initiated. They mutually agreed to have a...
KOKRAJHAR: Top NDFB-S rebel B Bidai finds place in the updated NRC draft notified on Sunday midnight. His name figures along with his wife Neina and other family members. Bidai hails from Auxiguri village in Baksa district.
Kokrajhar: NRC centres in BTAD areas are teeming with people who are waiting in the serpentine queue to check their names in the updated NRC draft published on Sunday night. In Kokrajhar nearly 65% applicants have found their names in the draft. Other applicants are waiting for the next draft which is expected next month. Talking to Assam Times, Kokrajhar DC Niranjan Baruah said," the mood is quite peaceful in all NRC centres where the citizens are checking their names." In Chirang, 64.35 % citizens are finding place in the first NRC draft. "We are very happy to have seen our names on the new year's day," said a senior citizen in Kokrajhar. A BTC MCLA from Fakiragram...
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GUWAHATI: ULFA (I)’s military head Paresh Baruah finds place in the first updated NRC draft released by the Registrar General of India in Guwahati on Sunday midnight. Baruah, a resident of Jeraigaon in Chabua who left home nearly four decades back. Same it is in the case of Arunodoy Dohotiya whose name of figures in the updated NRC draft. Baruah is Commander-in-Chief while Dohotiya is the Central publicity head of the rebel outfit fighting for an independent and sovereign Assam. Registrar General of India Sailesh along with coordinator Prateek Hajela released the first updated NRC draft at a crowded press conference in Guwahati at 00.00. The first draft...
GUWAHATI: Altogether 2500 NRC centres are teeming with hundreds of people who are lined up to catch a glimpse of their names in the first updated NRC draft a day after the Registrar General of India in Guwahati. From early in the morning these people started waiting in the serpentine queue in front of the Seva Kendras where the employees helped them check out their names. Some others in the semi urban areas are lined up infront of the cyber cafes to check their names in the NRC draft. “I came here early in the morning to check my name in the updated NRC and I got immense joy as I found out my name with the help an official at the NRC,” said Tularam Bora at Rangajan in Titabor....
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