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.
Braving ULFA diktat, the Journalists’ Forum Assam is all set to celebrate the 65th Republic Day on Sunday.The journalists body is scheduled to observe the red letter day with flag hoisting at the Guwahati Press Club in the morning. JFA said that the people should celebrate both R-Day to pay homage to the martyrs.Notably, a dozen of militant outfits operating in the north east imposed a general strike in the entire region on Sunday.
Guwahati police busted a gang of thieves during an intensified operation in the city on Saturday.The operation was launched in the Bhutnath area where 11 thieves were captured and some stolen materials including a bike were seized from their possession. Their personal identity is said to be doubtful.Sources told Assam Times that more operation would be carried out in some selected pockets in the city.
There seems to be hardly any possibility of pact between AGP and BJP for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.State BJP leadership have categorically denied any move for an alliance with AGP after they discussed it in a crucial meeting in Tezpur.State BJP president Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday said that the party would go it alone in the general elections. The meeting was attended by senior leader SS Ahluwaliah along with Sarbananda Sonowal, Rajen Gohain, Bijoya Chakravartty.Hours before it AGP president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta said that the party was prepared to fight it alone in the general elections.
KMSS president Akhil Gogoi threatens to occupy more plots of lands and other properties belonging to Suresh Prithani, Koilash Lohia and Ramavtar Agarwalla after January 26. “Before that they must hand over their plots to the farmers they procured for industrial purpose,” said Gogoi.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday, Gogoi dared Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to take action against these businessmen in question. The KMSS leader made it plain and simple that he and his organization are ready to face any eventuality for it. He further said that he won’t apply for anticipatory bail in connection with the FIR filed against him in Khetri polic station.
Asom Gana Parishad is well prepared to go it alone in the Lok Sabha polls. Party president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta told reporters in Guwahati on Saturday that BJP has yet to formally approach them for any alliance for the upcoming polls. He, however, said that AGP is interested to forge any alliance with regional parties only.His statement assumes significance hours after state BJP held a crucial meeting in Tezpur to chalk out poll strategies where the move for poll pact with AGP figured.
Assam Congress will soon announce the candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls in a day or two.Disclosing this chief minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters on Saturday that the ruling party has every strength to get two candidates elected in the polls slated for February 7. He further said that the third candidate is likely to be from the ruling party with the support of other party legislatures.
KMSS ups ante on Prithani, LohiaHundreds of KMSS activists staged dharna in front of the residence of Suresh Prithani and Koilash Lohia a day after a businessmen filed FIR against Akhil Gogoi and his organization KMSS alleging attempt to occupy their plots in Khetri. Details are awaited.
A brain storming session of senior BJP leaders and their AGP counterparts on Saturday is all set to clear the decks for an alliance between the two parties for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.To be attended by senior BJP leader SS Ahluwahuah along with BJP state president Sarbananda Sonowal and AGP president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, the meeting is scheduled to take place at the Tezpur Tourist Lodge.The meeting is set to hold three days after the regional party president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta called on the top BJP leaders in New Delhi seeking poll alliance to defeat Congress.
Rhino poaching strikes again in Kaziranga. Poachers have killed a full grown female rhino on Friday night. This time poachers have struck at the Burapahar range of the national park.The carcass was found on Saturday morning. The horn is missing. Forest guards are spreading tentacles to nab the poachers inside the park. The strike took place hours after police nabbed three people in Bokajan on their way back from Dimpaur after selling rhino horn. A huge amount of Rs 23 lakhs were seized from their possession.
Police have identified the two youths a day after they died in the explosion in Umrangsu on their way to Guwahati with explosives inside their car on Friday.Police sources confirmed that the duo were Sahabuddin and Ainuddin. Sahabuddin was engaged in a coal mine in Meghalaya. Both they were believed to have carried explosives to Guwahati at the instance of ULFA-I in the run to the Republic Day celebration.
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