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.
Tension prevails in Chirang a day after unidentified miscreants kidnapped 4 persons of a family at gunpoint. The incident took place at North Khaitema village on Saturday wee hours when gunmen took away Tarun Basumatary, his wife and two sons at gunpoint. Two other childrens, however managed to escape from the scene. Search operation is in progress. But there seems to be hardly any breakthrough.
The Assam government has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the recent incident in Azara where two women from Kokrajhar were found dead. The duo were believed to have died under mysteriour circumstances and the bodies were recovered beside the railway track at Jogipara in the outskirt of Guwahati. Additional district magistrate Biyaya Chaudhury would would probe the incident who is set to conduct a public hearing on November 8.
Kaziranga opened for tourists on Friday. Forest minister Rockybul Hussain opened the world heritage site in presence of many foreign and domestic tourists at a brief function in the morning. Hundreds of foreign tourists have alreay arrived the national park to get a glimpse of the abode of one horn rhinos.
The Rabha Hasong dominated areas in Goalpara and South Kamrup continue to embroil in violence. The situation refuses to improve on Friday a day after the police firing in Goalpara where a youth died and several others have been injured. Normal life remains crippled in these areas following the 12 hour bandh in protest against the Thursday's police firing. Vehicles are off from the streets. Offices, shops and markets, schools and colleges are remaining closed. Notably, the move to hold the proposed Rabha Hasong autonomous body runs into a hail of protest from the non Rabha organizations who have vowed to...
Intellectuals, journalists and a section of senior citizens staged dharna in front of the NEDFi Bhawan on Thusday boycotting a NHPC-sponsored seminar on the proposed big dams in Gerukamukh. As the seminar began, the prominent citizens and KMSS leaders thronged the NEDFi Bhawan premises at 10 in the morning and staged dharna opposing the dams. The protesters tore apart the NHPC top officials who came to them with a request to attend the seminar. Prof Deven Dutta, Dr D C Baishya, Dr Udayaditya Bharali, Kanaksen Deka, Nitya Bora and Akhil Gogoi made it clear that no expert from the...
The brief silence is over. BTAD areas seem to have erupted in violence forcing the authority to clamp curfew on Thursday. Violence took its worse turn during the 24 hour lower Assam bandh on Wednesday demanding exclusion of Non Boro areas from BTAD. A string of group clashes marred the bandh call leaving two dead and several others injured. The clashes broke out in Baska when a group of people forced some shops to open. These have forced the administration to step up security in the entire Baska district.
Assam on Wednesday again pledged to give a brave fight against terrorism---of all forms when the state remembered with deep grief those died in the October 30 serial blast five years back. Participating at a tributery function under the Ganesguri flyover, chief minister Tarun Gogoi urged the people to stand united against terrorism. Hundreds of people led by Gogoi paid floral tributes to the departed victims in Ganesguri, Panbazar, Bongaigaon and Kokrajhar. On this day in 2008, over 100 people died in a string of blasts, allegedly masterminded by NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary.
Bad news for nature lovers. A wild elephant found dead of electrocution on Tuesday night. The tragic incident took place at Sonari in Sivasagar at night when a heard of wild elephants came to the are in quest io search of food. A small group of these elephant came to Joboka tea estate where the incident took place. The carcass was spotted in the morning. But it took nearly 5 hours for the forest officials to reach the spot.
After a brief lull, violence erupts again in BTAD areas. A protest in the form of 24 hour Assam bandh called by the no Bodos demanding their safety turned violent on Wednesday wee hours. Despite a beefed up security measures, bandh supporters set on fire a truck in Gossaigaon on the road. A non Bodo student body has called for the 24 hour bandh in protest against one of their leaders.
Three persons were killed and atleast 20 others have been injured when a passenger bus collided its head on a tanker in Nagaon district. The incident took place on the National Highway 37 in Roha at 2 am, where a Guwahati bound passenger bus from Tinsukia collided head on a standred tanker. The of the passengers died on the spot while the injured have been rushed to the hospital.
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I would like to join AT NEwS.
Don't let this Prashant
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