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.
Kokrajhar: The Assam Tribal Sangha demands measures to protect the tribal belt and blocks in the state to meet welfare and development of the tribals. The demand took a formal snap as the organization held its triennial conference of the Kokrajhar district unit at Jharbari High School on Saturday. Sangha president Mahesh Chandra Brahma hoisted Sangha flag followed by 14 primary committees while Vice president of the sangha Bhojnath Narzary paid homage to martyrs on the day. Brahma slammed the state government for not taking any measures towards the tribal peoples. He demanded strict protection of tribal belt and blocks mean for tribal communities, fill up the backlog posts...
GUWAHATI: The United Liberation Front of Asom (I) is still firm on its goal of independence. In a statement released to mark the occasion of the rebel outfit’s Raising Day on Saturday, chairman Dr Abhijit Asom said nobody can belittle the struggle for independence. He said the state and its people needs to formulate a policy to implement “equity” in real sense of the term where minor ones must not feel ley down He said the election process needs a drastic change. According to him, the polling authority should hand over a duplicate or carbon copy of the battle paper to the voters for record. He said it would the electoral system vibrant. On this day in 1979, the rebel outfit formed...
GUWAHATI: Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said some outside forces have been trying to monger trouble in the north eastern region. Without naming anybody at a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday, Rijiju said,”I won't name. But I can tell you that some forces from outside have been trying to monger trouble in the state.” Amid summering protest anger over the speculated move to appease the Naga rebels at cost territorial integrity of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur, the home minister said frame work agreement, if implement, in no way will disturb the territory of any north eastern state. “It deals only with the political aspiration of the people. Territorial...
GUWAHATI: Peace talks with the major north eastern rebel groups are in final stage, says Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju as he was addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday. According to him, most of the demands the Centre has received from ULFA are genuine and could be resolved through negotiation. “We are hopeful. The process is in final stage. We have hiked the stipend amount of the surrendered rebels,” said the Union minister. Raju, who himself hails from Arunachal Pradesh said,”normalcy is back to the north east since we formed the government at the Centre. In Assam peace prevails. Manipur is almost calm and Nagaland is comparatively is quiet.”...
Kokrajhar: BTAD chief Hagrama Mohilary reviewed the development works and implementation of the various schemes meant for Chirang district at a meeting in Kajalgaon on Friday.. Mohilary asked the officers to ensure proper and timely implementation of the schemes and that the district wise meetings would keep an eye on the functioning of the departmental heads in the district levels. "The primary objectives of the discussion is to bring visible changes in terms of development in all the district of BTC area,” he added. He further said that the meeting reviewed and examined the problems and grievances of the government departments as to have inclusive development...
BOKAKHAT: The forest guards in Kaziranga claimed to have eliminated a dreaded rhino poacher at an encounter inside the national park on Saturday. According to information, the fierce gun battle took place at Deochurchang in Borhapahar range in the wee hours where the poacher died on the spot. They further recovered an AK-47 rifle along with 153 rounds of bullets from his possession.
GUWAHATI: Veteran Assamese film maker Munin Baruah passed away after prolonged illness leaving a pall of gloom across the state on Saturday. He was 71 as he breathed his last in the wee hours to be survived by his wife and two children. Born in 1947 in Golaghat Baruah wrote as many as 21 film scripts apart from directing Hiya Diya Niya, Dag, Pita Putra, Prabhati Pokhir Gan and many others. His Dinabandhu clinched national award a couple of years back. Film personalities and his fans in large number thronged his residence in Guwahati as soon as the news of his demise spread like wildfire. Many of these film personalities paid their last respect to Baruah whose body would be brought to...
DIBRUGARH: In yet another shocking incident a local resident of Moran in Dibrugarh allegedly raped before killing a five year old girl three days back. The entire incident came to light only on Friday after police and villagers in Tiloi Nagar recovered the body from a waterbody. The accused is on the run. Talking to www.assamtimes.org, local residents said the youth who is on the run took the minor girl on his bicycle three days back. Since then she has been remaining traceless. The accused, who is a neighbour, is also on the run.Many local organizations and individuals blocked the National Highway No 37 demanding immediate arrest and capital punishment of the perpetrator. The police...
GUWAHATI: Assam Congress legislators on Thursday staged protest in front of the state legislative assembly against the soaring prices of petrol and diesel across the country. Led by Opposition leader Debobrata Saikia, the legislators thronged the entrance gate of the House and flashed banners and playcards alleging government failure of the government to rein in the fuel prices even after a dip in the international crude oil market. “We want to send a message. The government has failed to curb the rising petrol and diesel prices even after the slow down in the international crude oil prices. Why the Centre has allowing the common people to suffer?,” said Saikia. The rising petrol and...
IMPHAL: Manipur human rights activist Babloo Loitongbam on Wednesday expressed strong displeasure over “threatening and attempting to arrest” EEVFAM members seeking justice for “victims” of fake encounters.Participating in a one-day discussion on “Justice for mass extrajudicial execution in Manipur” here, Babloo Loitongbam pointed out that one Ranjita, an EEVFAM activist from Bishnupur got threatened after security personnel, including army men, searched her house on March 27 last.Representatives of several civil society organisations attended the programme organised by the Extra Judicial Execution Victims Families Association, Manipur (EEVFAM) at Kuki Inn, Imphal.The Executive Director of...
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