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Normal life comes to a grinding halt in BTAD following 12 hour bandh in protest against GK Pillai’s stock taking visit which has already been cancelled.Schools and colleges, shops and markets are remaining closed under the impact of the paralyzing bandh which started at 6 in the morning.The impact in Kokrajhar is not so huge in view of the rally organized on the occasion of the former union home secretary’s visit. The Centre set up a one man commission of GK Pillai to study the separate Bodoland demands afresh.Non Bodo organizations along with a section of Bodo organizations have vehemently opposed the expert panel calling it a delaying tactic. ...
Akhil Gogoi’s mother Priyoda Gogoi is on a hunger strike near Jorhat on Tuesday demanding immediate release of her son who was arrested on Sunday in connection with the recent self immolation case.Flanked by 50 local KMSS workers, Gogoi began her hunger strike at her own residence in Teok from Tuesday morning.Several local organizations also have visited her and promised help.
Two poachers are believed to have sustained injury at an encounter with forest guards in Kaziranga on Tuesday.The encounter took place in the wee hours near Luit forest camp in the Sixth addition of the national park where the poachers are believed to have been injured.A team of forest guards are looking for the injured poachers inside the national park. Forest guards further claimed to have seized a boat along with some bullets from the spot.
KMSS activists are thronging in thousands in Guwahati to hold a meeting in protest against the arrest of Akhil Gogoi who was arrested on Sunday in connection with the Dispur self immolation case.Several prominent citizens are joining the meeting at Dighalipukhuri demanding immediate release of the KMSS president who is in police custody.After the meeting, they would submit a memorandum before the deputy commissioner demanding his immediate rally.
One person died and five others have been injured when suspected ULFA militants exploded a powerful bomb in Tinsukia.The explosion took place at Sripura around 8-30 in the morning where one person was killed on the spot.The injured have been rushed to the hospital after the arrival of police. No organization has so far owned up the responsibility of the blast. But it is believed to be a handiwork of ULFA.
Former Union home secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai has cancelled his stock-taking visit to BTAD on Tuesday.According to home ministry, Pillai has cancelled his visit because of inconvenience in helicopter services on Tuesday.But reliable sources told Assam Times that Pillai has cancelled his visit in the face of simmering protest in BTAD by a section of Bodo and non Bodo organizations.Pillai, however, has not fixed the date of his next attempt.On the other hand, the development has disappointed the Bodo National Convention leaders who were all set to hold a huge rally to woo Pillai who is studying the separate Bodoland demands.
Former minister Hitendra Nath Goswami joined BJP on Monday a week after he left AGP. Goswami is not the first AGP leader to have joined the saffron party. Former AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary and Jagadish Bhuyan are also likely to join the party.Patowary is believed to have been camping in New Delhi for instant touch with central BJP leaders.
Marathon interrogation is in progress on Akhil Gogoi a day after police got the KMSS president in their remand in connection with the recent self immolation of Pramod Boro.A special team of police probing the sensational case has been interrogating the peasant leader in connection to the self immolation case where he is charged with instigating the KMSS worker to take this extreme course of action on February 24.Authorities are tightlipped on his confessional statement.The same investigation team continues to grill five other KMSS leaders in this connection.Kamrup CJM on Sunday remanded Gogoi to police custody for four days when he was produced before it.He would be produced before the same...
Many KMSS activists have staged five hour long dharna at Gorchuk area in the city demanding immediate release of Akhil Gogoi who was arrested on Sunday along with five other leaders.Talking to Assam Times, led by Pramod Boro’s wife Purnima Boro, the protestors said that the agitation would not halt until and unless Gogoi is released.They further blocked a road by burning tyres in protest against the arrest of KMSS president.
Over 50 people have been injured when police sprang upon them for staging demonstration near a function in Sivasagar district attended by chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday.The incident took place in the morning when hundreds of tea garden workers in Dipling near Sonari staged dharna alleging a number of anomalies by the management.They further alleged government apathy towards them when the chief minister himself was laying the foundation stone of a project.Despite repeated appeal, the workers refused to call off the dharna. Then security forces resorted to lathicharge to disperse them from the place.The injured have been rushed to the hospital.Various parties and organizations have...
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