The All Assam Student Union (AASU) Kokrajhar district committee staged a 3-hours sit in demonstration in Kokrajhar,opposing the centre's decision to citizenship for Bangladeshi cutizens, who were migrated in India after 1971 today.
Hundreds of AASU activists and citizens participated with banner, placards in the demonstration at DRDA parking near DC office in Kokrajhar and shouted slogans demanded early cancelation of decisions taken from government of India to introduce as Indian citizenship those people migrated after 1971.
Nabojyoti Roy,assistant general secretary of AASU said that the BJP led NDA government assured that the illegal migrated Bangladeshis would be deported after forming government at center during last 2014 parliamentary election rally, but this government takes opposite turn where the Bangladeshi migrated in India after 1971 are going to introduces ascitizenship in the name of religion.
Roy slamming the both state and union government said that this government is going to split the Assam Accord spirits in their reign. He has warned for taking stern step against governments said that the student body never accept the decision. A vigorous mass movement would be carried out until the government not cancel the decision in the state, Roy added.
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Raju Das, the Nagaon incident accused who deals in tractors in the central Assam district has lost his dealership. In a letter, the International Tractors Limited has confirmed the action against him saying that the company will always prefer the local sentiments. Das was the main accused in the entire incidents where his close associates assaulted a group of former ULFA rebels as they were raising funds to feed the flood hit people.
AASU’s 12 hour ultimatum is over. Soobodh Biswas is still on the run 5 days after he incited the violence in Silapothat where a local AASU office was ransacked. The state’s influential student body is on a statewide Satyagraha in protest against the failure to nab the Silapothar culprit. AASU workers in the district and sub divisional headquarters started satyagraha from morning on Friday raising doubts over the sincerity of the government to hold Biswas. AASU served the 12 hour ultimatum to the chief minister on Wednesday.
The protest over the Silapothar incident refused to die down across the state where more and more people have come out demanding immediate arrest of the culprit. AASU workers Raha area of Nagaon district, in large number, blocked the National Highway No 37 on Thursday demanding immediate arrest of Soobodh Biswas.Shouting slogans, hundreds of protestors pledged to carry forward the agitation to deport the illegal settlers irrespective of religion.Talking to Assam Times, local AASU leader Sanjay Kumar Kakoti said that never they would allow the incident to go into oblivion.“We are ready to go to any extent if the government fails to nab Soobodh Biswas, the main culprit behind the attack on...
Amid an escalating tension over the Silapothar incident, hundreds of people spilled into the roads in Nagaon town on Wednesday evening demanding arrest of Soobodh Biswas, the culprit who is on the run.Apart from 600 students, many other local residents also joined the torch rally organized by AASU who shouting slogans against the attack on the local AASU office in Silapothar.“Where is Soobodh Biswas? Why should he be spared? Hold him for exemplery punishment,”said an AASU protestor Mridul Hazarika.The AASU protestors further warned the immigrants to quit Assam irrespective of their religions and slammed to government’s move for citizenship status to the Hindu immigrants.“Forget Hindu,...
The supreme sacrifice of the Assam agitation martyrs was remembered with deep reverence in Raha on Wednesday when the central Assam areas observed the Assam Agitation Martyrs Day.AASU activists in the area thronged the local Swahid Bedi and paid floral tribute to the martyrs in the morning. Local residents along with school and college goers also joined the occasion heaping huge praise for their sacrifice to make the state immigrant free.The occasion assumed significance at a time when the government alleged to have been trying to amend the citizenship Act to roll out red carpets for the Hindu illegal migrants, a process triggering statewide protest.
There seems to be no end of conspiracy to deprive Raha of the proposed AIIMS if the government affidavit before the National Green Tribunal is to be believed. In a desperate attempt to ensure the state of the art hospital in Jalah, the GMDA is trying to draw its master plan afresh where the controversial site in the outskirt go Guwahati might lose the green belt area tag. This would be the best possible way to get the country’s premier hospital in North Guwahati. According to the AAIMS Demand Committee leader Birinchi Bhuyan, the master plan approved in 2007 was prepared by an outside consultancy when VK Pipersenia was revenue secretary. “Now the same Pipersenia finds flaws in it. This is...
Shiv temples in Raha area in Nagaon district are also teeming with many devotees along with many other places on Friday on the occasion of Shivratri. From early in the morning the devotees started making huge queues at the Shiv temple premises to offer puja to the Lord Shiva, the god of death and destruction. Cultural functions are also lined up on the occasion. The puja us set to end on Saturday.
Education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is facing no less ire after the HSLC faux pas where many examination centres received Assamese and social science question papers instead if mathematics. AASU leaders and activists in many places burnt Sarma’s effigy alleging his inability to smoothly conduct the examination at 855 centres. Many AASU activists came out to an open space in Jamunamukh on Monday and burnt Himanta Biswa Sarma’s effigy and blamed it all on him for the bunglings. SEBA and Sarma initially refused to admit the question paper leakage incidents but after chief minister's intervention the examination was rescheduled.
Now its confirm. The proposed AIIMS us not coming up in Jalah in the outskirt of Guwahati reviving no less ray of hope for the people in Raha where it was initially proposed. The Raha AIIMS Demand Committee on Saturday submitted a memorandum before Union health minister JP Nadda urging the government to propose the country’s premier hospital in central Assam. The Union minister accepted the memorandum and assured the committee members of consideration if their demands. The minister recently told Parliament that the government has yet to finalise the site for the proposed hospital in Assam.
Even after one and a half months the schools have not been able to distribute all free text books among tbe students forcing All Assam Students Union to launch ten hour statewide hunger strike on SaturdayAASU activists in the district and subdivisional headquarters along with the block level are on a 10 hour hunger strike from morning to mount pressure on the government to ensure immediate distribution of textbooks in all primary and high schools.Talking to Assam Times, Raha AASU leader Mridul Hazarika said the education minister must break his silence. “He must take the responsibility. Our students must get free textbook immediately,” said Hazarika.The agitating students said that...
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