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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Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity(KMSS)leader Akhil Gogoi has called upon the peiople of Assam to protest against the controversial Citizenship(Amendment) Act unitedly.
Gogoi, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency for his alleged involvement with Maoist and was currently kept behind the bars, was today produced at the NIA special court in Guwahati.
In the court premises the KMSS leaders said before media that people of Assam should protest against the C(A)A strongly and unitedy.
“Any division among us would help the BJP-RSS implement their ugly divisive politics. I appeal the people of Assam to protest unitedly and vehemently against the C(A)A”, Gogoi said.
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A section of people of Assam fumed at a recent comment made by AASU's general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi.
Mr. Gogoi while delivering a speech at an anti-CAA rally at Lakhimpur said that the the AASU, the Asom Sahitya Sabha and the Srimanta Shankardeva Sangha are not above the people of Assam.
This comment has created huge controversy across the state.
However, some have argued that the AASU leader did not pass any derogatory comment on the Srimanta Shankardeva Sangha, the largest socio-cultural and religious organisation of the North-east India.
A large number of scholars and academics across the country have expressed shock at the NIA's action on IIT-G professor Arupjyoti Saikia, who is under scanner of the NIA.
The NIA quizzed the professor on charges of inciting violence during the anti-CAA protest on December 11, 2020.
Expressing anguish at the development these scholars and academics have written an open letter.
The signitaries include noted historian Dr. Ramchandra Guha, prominent political thinker Pratap Bhanu Mehta, among others.
CAA protests: Scholars, academics urge NIA to treat IIT professor Arupjyoti Saikia with respect https://t.co/2qzT4GGKlP
— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) February 2, 2020
Several organisations including the ASDC have jointly organised a protest against Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 at Diphu on February 3, 2020.
In a press release the organistions appealed the people of all-walks to take part in the protest, terming the newely amended citizenship Act is a sinister game-plan to uproot indigenious populace of the state from their own land.
The protesting organisations fumed that the controversial Act would compeletly annihilate the indigeneous people's language and culture.
Arupjyoti Saikia, a faculty of Social Science and Humanities Department of the IIT Guwahati, was on Saturday reportedly, interrogated by the NIA for his alleged violation of the newley amended citizenship laws of the country.
Mr. Saikia was summoned to the National Investigation Agency's office located at Sonapur, outskirts of Guwahati, where he was quizzed by the agency for sometime.
A researcher on the Brahmaputra river and alumnous of the Delhi Univerisity, Mr. Saikia had pursued extensive study on the forests of Assam also.
He will be questioned by the NIA on Monday, too, sources revealed.
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A group of ASSU and AJYCP activists today waved black flags to minister Dr. Himanata Biswa Sarma.
They were protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment)Act in front of the Nurul Amin Stadium when the minister was on his way to the district headquarters to hoist the National flag.
The protesters showed blacks to his convoy shouting “Jay aai Asom” slogan.
The police detained some protesters and took away them to nearest police station.
Three bomb blasts today rocked Sonari (Charaideo district) and Dibrugarh town. As per information received here around 8 am two motor cycle-borne miscreants hurled grenade at a shop in Teokghat locality of Sonari sending shock- waves across the locality. No casuality in the attack is reported so far. Later, senior police officials reached the spot. Investigation is going on, police infomed media. On the other hand, two bomblasts occured at the Greham Bazzar area and infront of the Gurudwara of Dibrugarh town.
Five persons from Assam have been selected for this year's Padmashri Award, the fourth highest civilian award of the country.
Distinguished artist Indira PP Bora, Jogendra Nath Phukan, Dr. Ravi Kannan, Lil Bahadur Chetri and Dr. Kushal Konwer Sarma have been honoured with the prestigious award. Phukan has been selected for the award for his distinguished contributions in the field of literature and education, while Dr. Sarma received the selection for his contribution in the field of veternary (medicine). Chetri and Dr. Kannan have received the award for their contribution in the field of literature and research on medicine respectively.
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Ranjan Daimary, the prime convict of the Oct'30 serial bomb blast and the chief of NDFB was released from jail today.
The dreaded leader of the NDFB was sentenced for life by a CBI special court a few years ago.
The Guwahati granted him a four-week bail for taking part in peace-talks with the Centre.
The Union Home ministry and the state government had submitted no objection certificates in the High Court.
Based on these the High Court granted Daimary bail. Meanwhile, the Centre has started peace-talks with all the fractions of the NDFB.
The BJP-led Assam government will file a case against Sharjeel Imam who allegedly made a number of highly objectionable comments publicly which was aired by many television channels off late.
The ex-JNU student in a videw aired by Republic TV was heard saying “They will curve out Assam from India”.
He allegedly delivered this objectionable speech while addressing a huge group of anti-CAA protesters in Saheen Bagh, Delhi.
Taking the matter seriously, minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today at a press conference said that the state government is all set to register a case against Imam.
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