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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BJP leader, Chairman of The Assam State Film (Finance and Development) Corporation and film star Jatin Bora has resigned from th eparty at a protest rally held in Latashil ground, Guwahati on Thursday.
Bora while announcing his resignation said that "government has not head people's voice".
The protest rally organised by the All Assam Students Union, hundreds of protesters joined the programme, which held peacefully.
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Defying indefenite curfew, with no transportation in the city, thousands of marching on foot towards the Latashil ground, near head quater of the All Assam Students Union (AASU), where AASU advisor Samujjal Kumar Bhattacharya and popular singer Zubeen Garg yeaterday apealed people to come.
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