CPIM general secretary Prakash Karat says that his party would raise the multi crore scam in NC Hills of Assam in parliament. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Monday, Karat said siphonning off money meant for poor people is a grave and an unpardonable crime and that the guilty persons deserve punishment. Karat along with top party leaders held a brainstorming meet to formulate strategy for the upcoming assembly polls in Assam.
PermalinkSubmitted by kemprai on Tue, 01/02/2011 - 19:35
There is no positive outcome in the district after scam issue and all the political leaders are busy in making an image for the upcoming election with the in the name of scam issue.
The district name should be totally named as DIMA HASAO in every article as suggested...as it is officially accepted in the gazzated offices in the state.
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An Executive Member of the North Cachar Hill Autonomous escaped bid on his life on Tuesday evening while a group of armed miscreants sprayed several rounds of bullets at his official residence housed in Haflong town. The new executive member Kaljay Singh from ASDC was absent from his residence ast that time. But his residence was damaged in the firing.
he AKRSU-sponsored hunger strike for a separate Kamatapur has crossed seventy five hours but nobody from the Tarun Gogoi cabinet has come to them. Going by the Sunday news, some doctors were rushed to the protesters. They alleged that on Monday the government tried to end the strike through negotiation with the Kamrup metro administration and NCP leaders.However, AGP and AUDF presidents along with some other parties and organiosations have rushed to the protest site and expressed thier soliderity. The doctors attended the protesters again on Monday morning.But till now no representative from the ruling party is there to take stock of the situation. On the other hand, lower Assam...
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The picketers of the All Adivasi Students Association of Assam has smashed a truck on the National Highway No 52 in Orang in Darrang district during the bandh hour early morning on Sunday. Some more stray incidents are are being reported. The Adivasi students are giving a 12 hour bandh call in protest government's failure in the Beltola violence and the non receipt of schedule tribe status.
Three striking communities have rejected Union minister P R Kyndiah's offer for talks on December 18 in New Dehi saying it is only to buy more time to let the panchayat poll hold.After the Koch Rajbanshis, the Muttocks and All Adivasi Students Association of Assam have rejected the offer. The Koch Rajbanshis have already made it plain and simple that they are not interested for ST status and instead vowed to seek separate Kamatapur.The tea tribe students and the Muttocks too rejected it saying it is a delaying tactic being taken by the Centre in the instance of the Assam government in the run up to the panchayat polls. The Tai Ahomes, Chutiyas have yet to react it. Notably, the Union...
The Assam BJP leaders have said only the Congress party was politicizing the current situation in the state and not the other parties. Addressing a press conference on Sunday, senior BJP leader Barki Prasad Telenga reacted sharply to the recent allegation of a senior minister that BJP was trying to create a Beltola-like situation only for political mileage. Telenga has said the BJP has exploited the present situation in Assam and alleged the ruling party was violating the model code of conduct in the run up to the panchayat elections.
The Assam government’s repeated denial of the presence of fundamentalist forces in the state has proved a wrong one with the police arresting an ISI kingpin in the city on Saturday. Speaking to a private TV channel, former Assam Chief Ministerand Pragatisheel Asom Gana Parishad president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta has said the arrest has once again proved the utter failure of the Tarun Government’s failure on the law and order front. Mr Mahanta said ISI and other fundamentalist forces are still at work to foment trouble in the north eastern region due to a frail and weak law and order situation in the state. "Its the failure of the of the state intelligence agencies is as...
The injured Asom Gana Parishad legislator from Sootea Padma Hazarika has been flown to the Appollo Hospital in New Delhi for better treatment. Earlier on Saturday, he was brought to the city and was admitted to the Dispur Hospital. Mr Hazarika was attacked near his residence on Thursday midnight in Sootea by some unidentified miscreants. The Assam Government denies involvement of any militant outfit in it and has ordered a fast track probe into it. The regional party is demanding the immediate dismissal of the government. Meanwhile, the injured MLA has said the miscreants were known to him. But he said he would disclose their names only after the probe is completed.
No militant outfit was behind the recent bid on life of AGP MLA Padma Hazarika. But the Assam government has ordered a speedy investigation to apprehend the culprits involved in it. Disclosing this before a private TV news channel, Assam government spokesperson Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said the intelligence agencies have confirmed that the bid on life of Padma Hazarika was not a handiwork of any militant outfit. Dr Sarma further denied it a politically motivated attempt on Padma Hazarika. He maintained that Mr Hazarika’s statement is required in this regard.“Politics of murder is there in AGP only and we donot understand why it is these misdeeds are,” he said.The minister...
The All Assam Koch Rajbanshi Students Union has withdrawn the proposed 1000 hour Kamatapur bandh from Monday following the permission they received for staging hunger strike in the city. But the student organisation has decided to boycott the meeting with P R Kyndiah in Delhi slated for eighteenth of December.The Assam Koch Rajbanshi Students Union along with Chilarai Senas and Mahila Sanmiloni were staging fast unto death in the city on Friday demanding a separate Kamatapur. The Assam Government ordered arrest of the protestors charging with the violation of the 144 CRPC on the spot. The has forced the organizations to call for a 1000 hour kamatapur bandh from Sunday. But the Kamrup metro...
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