Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is confident of winning over 60 seats in the assembly polls. But the poll pundits of the ruling party are sure of maximum 50 seats only. A confidential report of the puts the figure at maximum 50. But the report is confident of a Congress I-led government with the support of either BPF or AIUDF. On the other hand BPF is expected to gain from 10 to 13. But they would support only Tarun Gogoi is retained as the Chief Minister. The ruling party has another option: AIUDF is ready to support the government if Bhubneswar Kalita replaces Tarun Gogoi.
However, senior leaders told Assam Times that they were not aware of any confidential report. They said their party would get absolute majority to form the government of their own.
PermalinkSubmitted by Amitabh Chakraborty on Fri, 29/04/2011 - 15:41
I am partially agree wth Pallavi but not fully.Because I feel, Tarun Gogoi government failed to control the bureaucrats, and the money released for development works, such as in Panchayats level or for any such local bodies were misused by various different offices. And it is found that some people of the village level became a rich men within a night.
PermalinkSubmitted by bishwajeet on Fri, 29/04/2011 - 18:44
Congress is indeed going to stay here whether we want it or not merely by virtue of no suitable alternate is available 4 Assam ! No body wants the old bankrupt regime of AGP back even when Congress Govt has failed on many developmental front !
PermalinkSubmitted by Amtabh Chakraborty on Tue, 03/05/2011 - 04:37
Bishwajeet, does every body want to have a government to govern who have the records to face the highest corruption cases since last ten years? I dont know. But I am sorry to say that Tarun Gogoi minsitry just tried to stya away from ecery allegation by saying: those who have/had cried against them were/are plotically motivated. And for me whether Congress or AGP or BJP, they are all in the same boat. And for your kind information m not Congressee, not a BJP or AGP or AIUDF member. Just dont mix up conscious mind with politics, like every political party of Assam are doing. Think rationally, think impartially. For me very political party of Assam are not for the common people, people living in the grass root level.
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.
A mammoth security arrangement is in place in the run up to the Republic Day which falls on Sunday.Security forces are on an intensified patrolling on the vital roads, bridges, oil and gas installations apprehending militant strikes on the Republic Day.Water tight security and strict vigilance is being made at the Veterinary College playground at Khanapara in Guwahati where Governor JB Patnaik would hoist the national tricolor at 9 in the morning.The entire city turns into a security fortress acting on the inputs that militants are drawing up a massive plan to disrupt the Republic Day celebrations on Sunday.Dispur police have unearthed a blueprint of a powerful explosion in the...
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