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.
Government is arranging food, medicine, water and transportation for passengers stranded in Guwahati airport, Paltan Bazar railway station, and ISBT.
Transportation is also being arranged for passengers stranded at Bongaigaon, New Jalpaiguri railway stations.
The administration is also opened state emergency control room helpline: Toll Free 1097, mobile no: 94010-44617.
The Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioners office has opened toll free no: 1077 and 0361-2733052.
This was stated in a press release by Directorate of Information & Public Relations on Friday.
This is copied from a netigen from Assam clarifying the protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 (CAB).
Ever since the CAB is passed in Lok Sabha, massive protests erupted all over the state of Assam. Non-Assamese people, living outside Assam, are confused as to why are they protesting?
Is it their love for secularism or is it a left liberal agenda, sponsored by external agencies? Are they generally protest-happy folks without jobs or there are genuine concerns that we, non-Assamese people, don’t understand?
Let me clarify it.
We are not protesting against CAB because we are a bunch of left liberal pseudo-seculars who are unhappy because persecuted Muslims are...
BJP leader and Chariman of Assam Petrochemicals Limited Jagadish Bhuyan announced his regisnation from the party and all posts protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
Bhuyan joins the hunger strike organised by All Assam Students Union in Guwahati on Friday.
Bhuyan was a minister earlier during Asom Gana Parishad rule. Later, he joined BJP after facing defeat as AGP candidate.
On June 7, 2015 after stating "I have lost faith in the AGP which has become directionless and was shrinking each passing day. The BJP on the other hand is the right party to fight for the cause of Assam..." Jagadish Bhuyan along with several senior members of the AGP from Tinsukia district to join...
Peasant leader Akhil Gogoi arrested in Jorhat on Thursday.
Gogoi was attending an anti-CAB rally on Thursday at Jorhat.
Gogoi was arrested under preventive detention act.
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.
Guwahati: India's passing of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (CAB) has led to large scale rioting and protests in Assam, not seen since heydays of militancy there.
The CAB Bill grants citizenship to Bangladeshi Hindus and others (minus Muslims) which Assamese fear will lead to them being demographically engulfed. Thus tweets the Editor of The Bhutanese Tenzing Lamsang.
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.
The roads of the...
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill passed by the Indian Parliament legitimises discrimination on the basis of religion and stands in clear violation of the Constitution of India and international human rights law, Amnesty India said in a press communication.
The Bill, while inclusionary in its stated objective, is exclusionary in its structure and intent. It amends the Citizenship Act of 1955 to enable irregular migrants to acquire Indian citizenship through naturalisation and registration. However, it restricts the eligibility to only Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who entered India on or before 31 December 2014. The Bill...
Shops are closed in Guwahati on Tuesday following a 12-hour 'bandh' call by North East Students' Organisation (NESO) and All Assam Students' Union (AASU) against Citizenship Amendment Bill which was passed in Lok Sabha on Monday.
There are reports of protests by AASU activistsin diferent parts of the state.
Guwahati Biotech Park and Venture Center, Pune in the campus of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati has organised a one day workshop on Essentials of Scientific Entrepreneurship. The topics covered in the workshop are Raising money, tech transfer, company formation, inventive problem solving, IP, networking & pitching. Sessions also covered on BIRAC-BIG Scheme (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council - Biotechnology Ignition Grant Scheme) designed for Individuals/ entrepreneurs & Academicians and startups to establish proof-of-concept data for their exciting ideas in the field of life sciences on 6th December 2019.
This year a new scheme focused on North...
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I would like to join AT NEwS.
Don't let this Prashant
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