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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The reports will be available next day at the press club office. Member-journalists are requested to arrive at 11 am to join the camp, which will continue till 1 pm on Wednesday
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ITANAGAR : The State Government has announced Ex-gratia of Rs 20 lakhs for diseased families with government job and Rs 10 lakhs for seriously injured person in the recent protest against government's consideration to give PRC to 6 communities. Three protesters were killed in police firing and fine others injured in the recent orgy of violence in the state capital.
Answering to questions by media, Chief Minister Pema Khandu, said that the government is setting up a committee to assess the damage done by the protesters.
Mobile Internet services in the entire state has been suspended.
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The liquor tragedy that struck the state with 200 toll has created no less raucous in the state assembly on Monday leaving the ruling camp red faced. The Opposition cornered the government demanding CBI probe into the incident while the Government allowed the House to discuss the entire opposition.
Visited JMCH today and took stock of the health conditions of the patients who were admitted after consuming illicit liquor and I pray for their speedy recovery.আজি যোৰহাটৰ JMCHত উপস্থিত হৈ সুৰাৰ বিষক্ৰিয়াত আক্ৰান্ত সকলৰ স্বাস্থ্যৰ বুজ লওঁ আৰু আৰোগ্য কামনা কৰো। pic.twitter.com/TaULQiK4DO
— Tarun Gogoi (@tarun_gogoi) February 24, 2019
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