An Assam police team is leaving West Bengal to seek the remand of Sudipta Sen a day after the Saradha Group chief was brought to Kolkata.
According to sources, the team would interrogate Sen in connection with the chit-fund scam. He said three staff-members of Saradha Group were arrested in 2012 in connection with a cheating case in Jorhat.
So far, 222 cases have been registered against 128 chit fund companies in the State. A Special Investigation Team probing the cases has so far filed charge sheets against 42 persons and 15 companies in 17 cases. So far, 303 persons have been arrested. Nearly Rs. 94 lakh in cash has been seized and amount of Rs. 24 crore frozen. Police have seized 106 bank accounts have been frozen while steps are being taken for the attachment of a number of landed properties including 99 bighas of land and buildings which have been identified.
The companies now under scanner are Saradha Group, Rose Valley, Unipay 2U, Jeevan Suraksha, Prayag, Abyss Assam Group Co, Basil International Ltd., Alliance Vision Marketing Pvt. Ltd and Daffodils Group of Companies.
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday vowed to change the face of the north east if BJP is voted to power this time.Addressing a huge rally in Pasighat, Modi said that development has no option and that’s why, development would be the montra for 2014 Lok Sabha polls for BJP.Modi said that Arunachal Pradesh has sacrifice a lot. But time and again it has been receiving raw deal decades after decades.Iterating the relation between Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh, the Gujarat Chief Minister said that if the sun rises in Arunachal Pradesh then it sets in Gujarat.
The Assam Government on Saturday announced a set of new industrial policy.Addressing a press conference in Dispur, industry minister Pradyut Bordoloi said that the policy would thrust small scale industries.He further said that industries on nonagricultural plots would be encouraged. But in the same breath, Bordoloi said that agricultural plots won’t be utilized for any industrial purpose.
UPA government came in for sharp criticism in Narendra Modi’s speech at a huge rally in Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday.Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate in his address at Pasighat said that the UPA government has failed on all fronts.He said that the UPA government does not listen to even the Congress chief ministers. He further deplored lack of initiatives to utilize the forest resources in the north eastern state.
Nido Tania will get justice. This was what the plain pledge of Narendra Modi who addressed a huge rally in Pasighat on Saturday.He said that racial attacked would be stopped at any cost not only in New Delhi but also in other parts of the country.Condemning the gruesome killing of the Arunachal Pradesh student in south Delhi, Modi said that the nation will never forgive the perpetrator and that they would get maximum punishment.
The Centre will set up a panel of experts to study the separate Bodoland issue.The decision was announced when Bodoland National Convention held tripartite talks in New Delhi on Friday. According to sources, a one man committee will thoroughly study the feasibility and viability of the Bodoland demand.
Encouraged by the huge and successful rallies, BJP will further hold two huge rallies to be addressed by Narendra Modi in March.Senior party leaders told Assam Times that the BJP prime ministerial candidate has been requested to attend two rallies on March 13 in Lakhimpur and Dibrugarh.The second one rally has yet to be confirmed. But they hoped that both the rallies would help the party woo huge voters.
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said that if his party comes to power, then he would rehabilitate the family members of Ananta Hazarika and Gopi Gogoi. The duo died after attending the recent rally in Guwahati. Immediately after landing at the Dibrugarh Airport on Saturday morning, Modi met the two family members and shared their worries.Modi told the two family members that he would rehabilitate them at his own initiatives as soon as he becomes the prime minister.Hazarika died after falling from a moving train while Gogoi was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the river Brahmaputra in Guwahati.
The Assam Government is seriously considering formation of ten more districts citing stress on congenial governance.The move to form these new districts and over 30 sub divisions started when the group of ministers set up to deal with the proposal met in Dispur on Friday.The meeting discussed the criterion for formation of the new districts. If things move on right direction, the state is set to get these new districts before the Assembly polls.
Amid tight security, Narendra Modi landed in Dibruagrh on Saturday morning en route to Arunachal Pradesh.The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate landed at Dibrugarh Airport at 10-15 in the morning to be received by BJP leader Kamakhya Prasad Tasa.During his brief halt in Dibrugarh Airport, the Gujarat Chief Minister talked to the family members of Ananta Hazarika and Gopi Gogoi who died after attending the recent rally in Guwahati.Then he left for Arunachal Pradesh by a helicoopter at 10-30 to attend a huge rally in Pasighat.
The Asom Gana Parishad is holding its steering committee meeting in Guwahati on Saturday to chalk out strategies for the Lok Sabha polls slated for May.To be presided over by president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta at the party headquarters in Ambari, the meeting is expected to take a final decision on forging a post poll alliance with other political parties.Friday’s meeting failed to arrive at a consensus. The party has yet to finalise the list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
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Rose Valley will be next.
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