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.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday dared Narendra Modi to woo the voters in the run up to the upcoming Lok Sabbha polls.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of the party executive body meeting at the Rajiv Bhawan on Wednesday, Gogoi said that Rahul Gandhi is not required to take on the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. Gogoi said that he can alone take on the Gujarat Chief Minister. “Let Narendra Modi come to hold rally in Guwahati. I will take on him alone,” Gogoi said. The chief minister further exuded confidence that Congress will win 12 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Rapid deforestation seems to have put the wild animals in danger. Local residents in Guwahati caught a deer from the human habitaton Wednesday. The deer was spotted in Noonmati area by a section of local residents after it sneaked into the human habitat in the morning. They caught the animal and handed over to the local police station before it was sent to the forest department.
Union minister Oscar Fernandes said on Wednesday that Congress in Assam would be able to do very well in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.Talking to reporters at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport on Wednesday morning, Fernandes said that the party is expected to win all the seats in the polls.He further said that Narendra Modi has hardly any impact in Assam and that the BJP’s prime ministerial candidates won’t be able to garner support from the state.
Normal life came to a grinding halt in Kokrajhar following the day long bandh call on Wednesday in protest against the attack on a local trader on Tuesday night.Roads wore deserted look. Schools and colleges, shops and markets, offices and banks remained closed under the impact of the baandh.Suspected KLO militants gunned down a local from a point blank range in Kokrajhar on Tuesday evening on his way back to his home. The businessman was killed on the spot.
Assam Congress Committee is holding its executive body meeting in Guwahati on Wednesday to discuss the crucial issues three months ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.Presided over by APCC president Bhuubneswar Kalita, AICC general secretary Dr CP Joshi is attending the meeting along with APCC leader Avinash Pandey and chief minister Tarun Gogoi.Dissidence activities are unlikely to figure in the meeting. On Tuesday evening Dr Joshi, Pandey and top APCC leaders held a crucial meeting at the Chief Minister’s official residence where poll candidates were believed have discussed.
A hardcore ULFAman died in an encounter with security forces in Goalpara district on Wednesday. The encounter took place along the Assam-Meghalaya border in the wee hours.According to information, security forces launched a combing operation acting on a tip off that a group of hardcore ULFAmen was hiding in the area. The man died on the spot. The encounter took place day after police arrested an ULFA-linkman.
Suspected NDFB-S have freed a tea garden manager 9 days after he was kidnapped from his house in Sonitpur district.Identified as Bharat Singh Rathorh, the Pabhoi Tea Estate manager in Tinisuti area in Bisswanath Chaliali was released along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border on Tuesday night.Hours after the release, he reached the local police station seeking help to leave for the tea garden on Wednesday. He was kidnapped by a group of 10 armed youths at gunpoint on January 16 from his own residence.
Murder and mayhem refuses to die down in Kokrajhar even amid a full scale operation against the insurgents in BTAD areas.
Suspected KLO militants shot dead a businessman in Kokrajhar on Tuesday. The incident took place in the heart of the town at around 8 in the evening. Armed miscreants sprayed several rounds of bullets on a shop keeper on his way back to his home. The businessman was killed on the spot.
Policemen rushed to the spot. But by then, the militants managed to escape. This is the fifth cases of death in BTAD areas within this week.
Security forces are spreading tentacles against ULFA(I), NDFB-S and KLO apprehending subversive activities in the run up to the Republic Day celebrations.During his visit to Chirang district on Tuesday, DGP Khagen Sarma said that the combing operations have been intensified against the militant outfits operating in the state.Sarma held talks with top ranked police officials from Kokrajhar and Chirang district to take stock of the BTAD law and order situation where NDFB-S killed 8 innocent people in four different attacks within a period of 24 hours.The Centre has agreed to rush additional security forces to contain the law and order situation in BTAD.
Assam Congress poll panel on Tuesday set up a special committee to assess the political situation in the Lok Sabha seats.Presided over by APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita in presence of chief minister Tarun Gogoi and AICC observers Dr CP Joshi and Avinash Pandey, the meeting asked Pranati Phukan to assess the Jorhat and Nagaon seat, Sarat Borkotoky in Barpeta and Dr Hemoprabha Saikia in Lakhimpur. The committee members would leave for the constituencies on January 22 and 23.They would submit their findings on January 27 to help the screening body shortlist panels of candidates against each of the 14 seats.
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