Skip to content Skip to navigation

PM opens cancer hospitals, adresses 'hired' people

Diphu and Dibrugarh: People thronged through thousands in Diphu to catch a glimpse of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister was in the hills district on Thursday.

Modi highlighted the initiative to uplift Assam like never before as he opened a few hospitals from the same venue attended by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Union minister Sarbanda Sonowal. 

The district administration engaged around 15000 buses and other vehicles to ferry the from far flung areas allegedly causing huge inconvenience for the common people.  

Many vital roads remain inaccessible for people because of VVIP security and halting of vehicles.  Even buses from Guwahati city were engaged to carry people in the hills district headquarters. 

This was followed by another huge rally in Dibrugarh where people from.most of the upper Assam districts along with  Lakhimpur and Dhemaji were brought to the venue. 

Earlier in the morning Modi was received at Guwahati airport by the Chief Minister and left for Diphu. 

Author info

AT News's picture

Assam Times Staff. editor@assamtimes.org

Add new comment

Random Stories

Shocking: Neonate body in Kokrajhar

17 Feb 2015 - 6:11pm | Hantigiri Narzary
The body of a neonate sends no less shock in Kokrahar town on Tuesday. Local residents in the town spotted the body behind the fly over in the morning.Eyewitnesses told Assam Times that the body was...

BTC special session discusses development

25 Sep 2017 - 5:56pm | AT Kokrajhar Bureau
 A two day special session of the BTC Legislative Assembly is underway in Kokrajhar from Monday. On the opening day, the autonomous council members discussed the developmental initiatives...

Achievement

13 May 2009 - 11:46am | Juthika Das
Nabajit Das, Lecturer in Zoology, B.H.college, Howly participated in the 10th students' conference on conservation sciences held in Cambridge University on March 24 to 26 and presented a paper on...