The mortal remains of Anjan Dutta were consigned to flames on Friday a day after the APCC president died of cardiac arrest in New Delhi. After last respect to the lifeless former minister in Guwahati and Sivasagar, Dutta’s body was taken to Gaurisagar where he was cremated with full state honour in the afternoon. Former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma, MP Ripun Bora were prominent among those who were present at the cremation ground. Before that thousands of bereaved Congress men received Dutta’s body at the Jorhat Airport in the morning and was taken to Sivasagar to facilitate his fans to pay their last respect in Sivasagar town and his birth place Gayan gaon.
Dutta died of cardiac ailment on Thursday morning at the All India Institute of Medical Science a couple of weeks after he was rushed to it. The party in rank and file have condoled his death and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.
After Congress, simmering dissidence threatens to mar the prospect of Assam BJP unit hardly a year before the assembly polls.The state unit is heading for a vertical split. That too at a time when the central leadership is leaving no stone unturned to wrest power from Congress. State unit president Siddharth Bhattacharya is leading a faction which is dead opposed to Sarbananda Sonowal. The Union minister also has a circle of his loyalists who want Bhattacharya to be unseated immediately. BJP sources told Assam Times that the tussle takes place over the chief ministerial candidates in the next assembly polls early next year. “Both the factions are concentrating on a number of differences...
The process to update NRC generates no less politics in the state hardly a year before the assembly polls. After AIUDF, now its turn for GMSS and KMSS to plan huge rally in Guwahati to strike political mileage. The party is holding a huge rally in the city on May 17 to ensure that no immigrants are allowed find place in the updated NRC.The party leaders told Assam Times that a circle of political leaders has been trying to ensure the names of a section of suspected immigrants in the updated NRC."We want to tell the country that we will not tolerate if an immigrant finds place here. We are holding the rally only to make the people aware of it,” a KMSS leader told Assam Times. AIUDF has been...
Former chief secretary Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa will be the new Governor of Arunachal Pradesh. President Pranab Mukherjee signed the appointment order on Tuesday. The retired IAS officer is expected to assume the office in a day or two.
Surface communication remained heavily disrupted after a heavy storm lashed parts of the state on Tuesday. The storm hit half of the state at 5 in the evening damaging houses and uprooting many trees on the roads.
Dipti Moran tops state civil service examination as the Assam Public Service Commission declared the resuls on Thursday. The commission has selected 60 candidates for ACS junior grade post while 90 have been selected for Assam police service. These are apart from 30 other for allied services.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi did an Arvind Kejriwal when he led a protest rally in Guwahati alleging centre's policy that would make the state more poor. Gogoi along with several other party leaders held a rally at Latashil playground on Tuesday. Talking to reporters, Gogoi said that the curtailment of central share in the various schemes would hamper the process of development in near future. "We must get justice. We have been demanding an appointment with prime minister. But we have not received any response," he said.
Three back to back tremors struck no less panic on Tuesday forcing the authorities to sound alert across the state.The state rattled at 12.37 when a 7.4 magnitude originated in Kathmandu. This was followed by the second one tremor which was of mild 3.4 intensity in Richter scale at 1.20 in the afternoon. The epicenter was Tezpur.Yet another earthquake spread panic among the people 30 minutes later forcing the people to come out of their high rise buildings.In Guwahati also, the panic stricken people rushed to the roads and open space as soon as the tremors were felt. Cracks are believed to have surfaced in the Anandoram Barooah Flyover in Guwahati apart from three buildings. There is no...
There seems to be no respite for Rumi Nath as the Gauhati High Court has rejected the Borkhola MLA’s bail plea on Tuesday.After examining the police case diary on Tuesday a division bench of the high court rejected her petition. The government told that court that bail, if granted, would hamper the investigation which has reached its crucial stage.The Borkhola MLA was arrested on April 14 wee hours alleging her nexus with notorious car lifter Anil Chauhan. The lower court on Monday rejected her bail in yet another case.
Congressmen in Sivasagar held huge rallies in protest against NDA policies that would leave the state dire straight in near future.The party leaders and activists in all districts took out protest march in the headquarters alleging that Assam is losing special treatment. Participating in the rallies Congress leaders told Assam Times in Guwahati that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must understand Assam and its people.“We want the U turns to be stopped immediately. We demand no curtailment of its shares in the Centrally sponsored schemes. It’s the beginning of the protest. More protest are on the cards,” PCC president Anjan Dutta told Assam Times in Sivasagar.
Simmering dissidence seems to have resurfaced in Congress legislative party hardly a year before the assembly polls. This time the entire high voltage drama centres around Speaker Pranab Gogoi.Sources in New Delhi told Assam Times that chief minister Tarun Gogoi being aided and abetted by PCC president Anjan Dutta are in a mission to unseat Pranab Gogoi as Speaker.“The development is in crucial stage with party high command. Senior cabinet minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman is likely to replace the legislator from Sivasagar assembly constituency,” said a senior AICC leader.He said that it may take time. But Gogoi and Dutta want the Speaker to be replaced when the chief minister would be expanding...
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