The Autonomous State Demand Committee (ASDC) is striking a deal with the BJP to form a coalition North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC .
Speaking to assamtimes over telephone from Haflong, ASDC leaders they are in talks with the BJP leaders in Guwahati to finalise the roadmap. “The final picture is expected on Thursday,” they say.
Notably, the Congress has been faciling humiliating defeat at the hands of ASDC and BJP combine clearing the way for a new Council led by ASDC and BJP.
The Congress topgun and Haflong MLA and former minister Gobinda Chandra Langthasa and his son was defeated in the election.
ASDC and BJP combine secured 20seats while Congress and independent got 3 seats each.
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The All Assam Adivasi Students Association gives a 48 hour deadline for the government to clear the whereabouts of 32 protesters who they claim, have been missing from the violence spot on the Shameful Saturday. Earlier, the government asked for the list of those missing protesters to ascertain the veracity of their claim. The AASA have been accusing the government of hiding the dead bodies of the protesters.
The AICC general secretary in charge of Assam Verappa Moily is holding talks with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and senior party members to prepare a detail report on the Beltola violence that could corner the party in Parliament on Monday.A clueless Congress party rushed Mr Moily to Guwahti on Thursday and will submit his findings before the party high command in a day or two.Notably, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee allowed a short but crucial discussion on Assam violence on the floor of the House on Monday.
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Amid a watertight security arrangement, seventy five percent voters exercised their franchise in the first phase of polls in the North Cachar Hills district on Monday. The polling was by and large peaceful. No report of any untoward incident has been reported so far. The polling in the hills district began at 7 in the morning and ended at 4 in the afternoon accordingly.The hills district is all set to go to the second phase of polls on December 1.
The city police has picked up three youths from Guwahati on Sunday late night for their alleged involvement in the physical assault on an Adivashi girl protestor in Beltola on Saturday. Police say these three people has already confessed that they undressed the girl which was more shocking in the string of violence on Saturday.
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An eerie silence is prevailing in the Beltola area a day after the mob violence that killed several people and that too in full view of the police. But the authorities are relaxing curfew in the area till 8 in the evening. During this period no untoward incidents have been reported so far. The students body in the tea garden has given a 36 hour statewide Assam bandh call from Monday morning 5 to end at 5 in the evening on Tuesday.
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