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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In a major setback for the Congress, which has been struggling hard to regain strength since 2014, has today lost two of its prominent faces in Assam.
Sitting MLA of Badarpur, Jamaluddin Ahmed and former MLA of Dergaon Aroti Kachari Hazarika passed away. The Dergaon politican was 59.
The two leaders' deaths were mourned by many including APCC president Ripun Bora, former minister Bismita Gogoi, among others.
Noted Assamese linguist and former Cotton College professor Dr. Ramesh Pathak is no more.
The professor has passed away today after a brief illness. His death is mourned by many. Born in Tihu, Nalbari Dr. Pathak has made tremendous contribution in the field of the Assamese linguistic by penning a number of books.
A few years ago, he was bestowed with the Sahityacharrya Award by the Asam Sahitya Sabha.
“Cinema Cinema, a new book by eminent cultural journalist Utpal Mena was released on Tuesday at a function organised at Studio Dreams, Guwahati.
Popular singer Tarali Sarma and some other distinguished person graced the occasion. Journalist Mena, who once contribued to the popular Assamese monthly magazine as a reporter from Mumbai has penned this book out of his long time practical experience. In the function he said about his experience as a cultural journalist.
This book is about Indian cinema and a number of film stars. Mena also worked in different Assamese dailies over a one and half decades.
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As per reports the bus while heading to Dimapur accidentally veered off the main road in the wee hours at Garampani. Fortunately, all passengers were safely rescued.
The driver and the handiman of the bus ran away after the accident, sources said.
The United Liberation Front of Assam(Independent) Assam has claimed the responsibility of the blast that occurred at upper Assam town of Digboi, near an army camp.
Taking the responsibility, the banned outfit's has issued statement.
In the statement signed by its publicity department's in-charge self-styled Captain Deep Asom said, “At around 6-45pm on January 22, 2021 a bomblast occured at the camp of the 3rd Garhowal regiment of the Indian Army. The blast was done by the ULFA(I). The blast occured on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Assam and Meghalaya visit.
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