GUWAHATI: West Bengal Chief Minister strikes a huge controversy in Assam when she called the ongoing process to update NRC a campaign to drive away the Bangla speaking people in the north eastern state.
All political parties, organizations and individuals in the state have slammed Banerjee for her irresponsible comment alleging it a conspiracy to create communal riot in Assam.
The All Assam Students Union has strongly criticized her alleging that her comment might strike communal tension and threatened to move the Supreme Court against her.
Banerjee in her speech on Wednesday at a public meeting in Birbhum said that NRC process is a step against the Bangla speaking people which would inflict torture on them. She said if the Bangla speaking people are tortured in the name of NRC she won't remain quiet.
She further appealed to her party MPs in Delhi to raise her concern in Parliament.
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PPFA asks WB chief minister to exercise restrain
Guwahati: Expressing utter dismay on a responsible politician’s communal remarks over the ongoing process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) updaion in the State, the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urges the politicians in power to exercise restrain while making a public statement.
The Assam based forum, while reacting sharply to a recent outburst of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee claiming that the NRC updating process in the State was a ‘conspiracy to drive away Bengalis’, also appeals to the conscious people of the neighboring State to prevent their talkative chief minister from making such inflammatory statements.
The much waited updation of NRC of 1951 is undergoing in Assam following the direction (also monitoring) of the Supreme Court and the first draft of it comprising 1.9 crore applicants out of around 3.25 crore total applicants was released on the midnight of 31 December 2017. The second part of it is expected to be published by early this year.
Contrary to the wide spread apprehensions by various government and non-government agencies, no unpleasant incident took place in Assam in the last four days, even though many people including few high profile individuals are yet to find their names in the list. Rather everyone reportedly accepted the error sportingly and waits for necessary correction in the final draft.
“But shockingly the Bengal chief minister Ms Banerjee has tried to communalize the issue with queer logics. The Trinamool Congress chief has simply tried to play a cunning game as few Bengali politicians of yesteryears including Jyoti Basu (ex-CM of Bengal) along with a bunch of intellectuals did the same during the Assam movement to deport illegal Bangladeshi migrants,” said the PPFA.
In a statement, issued to the media outlets, the forum pointed out that the appeasement policies of Ms Banerjee towards a particular community in West Bengal has seemingly compelled her to make such
illogical comments. As she has been vehemently opposing the Centre’s citizenship amendment bill one can easily get the idea of Ms Banerjee’s interested group of people, asserted the forum.
The PPFA has finally urged the Bengal chief minister to think about the nation first than running behind her silly political interest. The forum additionally appeals to the Bengali speaking people of the region to denounce Ms Banerjee’s comment which may spread misinformation and confusions across the country.
Poachers have struck again in Kaziranga. A full grown rhino was killed in the national park on Saturday.The carcass was found at the Agaratoli range of the national park where the poachers took away the horn. Forest guards rushed to the site after they came to hear the sound of firing in the place.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi dared Arvind Kejriwal to move the investigating agencies with allegations corruption against him hours after the Delhi Chief Minister called him one of the most corrupt political leaders in the country. Taking to reporters in the sidelines of a function in Dibrugarh on Friday, Gogoi said that if the AAP leader has any evidence then why he has yet to move the investigating agencies for probe? “Let him probe the allegations of corruption against me. Why has not he did it? These are political gimmick and nothing else,” said the chief minister.Kejriwal on Friday called Gogoi one of the most corrupt political leaders in the country.
The indefinite economic blockade in Sonitpur and Dhemaji districts seems to have land Arunachal Pradesh in huge trouble.The neighbouring state seems to have been heading for yet period of crippling crisis in the absence of essential commodities.The state has received hardly anything for the last three days because of the blockade as hundreds of trucks carrying essential commodities have been remaining stranded in different places.According to sources, the stock of essential commodities is likely to end soon if this blockade is allowed to continue in Sonitpur district in protest against the killing of ten villagers in Chauldhua forest.
Guwahati police have arrested an imposter in Punjab in connection with a case where a coal businessman was duped a few months back.Identified as Munish Garg, he was arrested in Jalandhar on Thursday night charging him with taking Rs 2 crore from a businessman in the Beltola areas in the city.Sources told Assam Times that the accused would be produced in a local court in Jalandhar for transit remand before being flown to Guwahati on Saturday.
Vinod Gohain: North East MPs are scheduled to meet prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh and home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Saturday demanding punishment of the culprits involved in the attack on Nido Tania.The MPs from the region are expected to demand steps to ensure safety and security of the north east people.
Vinod Gohain: Hundreds of north east people staged dharna in front of the Lajpatnagar police station on Friday evening demanding immediate arrest of the goons involved in the gory attack on Nido Tania two days after the Arunachal Pradesh student died in attack.“we won’t remain silent. We want justice. The culprits must be brought to book. But police officials are refraining from taking prompt action in this regard. That’s why, we won’t allow these to continue,” told Rashmi Baruah to Assam Times.A section of the protestors are unhappy with the role of the police. “Much to our utter disappointment, police officials initially refused to file the FIR which suggests that they want to allow these...
A high level meeting of security forces in Tezpur on Friday monitored the prevailing situation in Bihali three days after the gory shoot out in Chauldhua jungle. Top ranked civil and security officials discussed in detail in the escalating tension along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border where surface communication remains paralyzed following the indefinite economic blockade against the nighbouring state.
At least six villagers are believed to have been missing after the bloodbath at Chauldhua where miscreants from Arunachal Pradesh gunned down at least ten people on Wednesday.But the district administration has yet to confirm it. The local residents are in search of the persons inside the dense jungle. Ten bodies were recovered during the last two days after the shoot out.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday slammed AGP, BJP and AIUDF for standing united to ensure the victory of the Opposition consensus candidate in the ensuring Rajya Sabha polls.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of a function in Dibrugarh, Gogoi said that despite unbridgeable differences, the opposition parties have stood united only to defeat Congress. But he said that the unity won’t work this time also.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Friday slammed AGP, BJP and AIUDF for standing united to ensure the victory of the Opposition consensus candidate in the ensuring Rajya Sabha polls.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of a function in Dibrugarh, Gogoi said that despite unbridgeable differences, the opposition parties have stood united only to defeat Congress. But he said that the unity won’t work this time also.
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