If you are moving to Chennai and want any kind of help please contact the Assam Association, here are the details of the office bearers of the association.
Sulakshan Saikia (President): 9444391730
G.N.Baruah (Secretary): 9445005186
B.K.Sharma (Asstt.Secretary): 9445005171
Kishore Kalita (Organising Secy): 9840588738
Pradeep Hazarika (Organising Secy):9884269490
Himangshu Hazarika(Organising Secy):9176445196
S.K.Borah(Organising Secy):9445005962
Indukalpa Saikia(Megazine Secy): 9840943308
P.K.Bhattacharjee (Treasurer & Cultural Secy):9445005154
PermalinkSubmitted by Dr. Devdas Kakati on Fri, 05/12/2014 - 21:16
Very happy to know that the association is continuing to do well and growing. I had the privilege of being the President of the association around 1981-82 when I was a Professor of IIT-Madras ( now Chennai). During Assam Movement, we published the Brahmaputra Beckons. You will be happy to know recently a book by me on the life & events in Majuli was published by Partridge India of Penguin-Random House Group :"An Insane Moon". I can send some details if you send me a contact email address.
With best wishes to you all, Devdas Kakati. 05 December 2014.
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Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday made it plain and simple that the government won’t allow anybody to occupy forest land and water bodies.In his address at the land patta distribution function at Sankardev Kalakhetra, Gogoi said that the government is committed to provide land for the landless and that it does not mean that all lands are free for these people.His comment assumes significance when KMSS has been agitating for lands in the hills and water bodies.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday called the self immolation attempt an unfortunate.Talking to reporters in the sidelines of the land patta distribution function at Sankardev Kalakhetra in the morning Gogoi said that the incident was an unfortunate. Gogoi found it difficult to understand what forced KMSS to prevent the land patta distribution among the landless people.
A KMSS activist is battling for life at GMCH after he made an abortive self immolation attempt in Dispur opposing land patta distribution in Guwahati on Monday.According to GMCH authorities, identified as Pranab Boro from Gorchuk area in the city is undergoing treatment after he was rushed to it with 100 per cent burn injuries. His condition is critical.The incident took place at 10-30 in the morning in front of the State Secretariat where Boro set himself on fire after pouring kerosene as part of the massive agitation on land pattas for the land less lot in the city.
Akhil Gogoi seems to have landed in trouble. Kamrup (Metro) district administration is believed to have been prepared to arrest the KMSS president charging him with fuelling the situation where one of his activists sustained serious burn injury for self-immolation attempt.According to allegations, Gogoi has been preparing the blueprint of the dangerous agitation for the last couple of days. That’s why, Gogoi can’t escape the responsibility.Notably, Gogoi earlier threatened the government to launched a Pothoru-Ghat like episode in the history of Assam if the government fails to halt the land patta distribution.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and his government have come in for sharp criticism for the volatile law and order situation in Guwahati on Monday.Various political parties, organizations and individuals have slammed the government for not listenining to the KMSS activists who have been crying for land pattas for the last couple of years.AGP and BJP called the government a fascist and hold the government responsible for it.
Police have arrested at least 5 KMSS activists from different places in Guwahati for trying to disrupt the function organized at Sankardev kalakhetra to distribute land pattas for 500 families on Monday.Police further claimed to have seized kerosene from their possession for self immolation attempts to foil the land patta distribution function.A massive security is in place in Guwahati to foil the KMSS agitation for land pattas to the people living in the government land.Security forces are fanning atop the hills areas in the city looking for the KMSS protesters who are set to hit the streets on Monday.Bamboo barricades are being brought to Koinadhara, Sankardev Kalakhetra, Dispur Last Gate...
Finally, KMSS has called off the massive agitation against the land patta distribution function in Guwahati on Monday.The decision was taken after two abortive self immolation attempts in the city where two KMSS activists sustained serious burn injuries.KMSS president Akhil Gogoi who allegedly prepared the blueprint of the dangerous agitation has urged the protestors to leave the public places. The bizarre incidents took place at 10-30 in the morning in front of the state secretariat and Gorchuk when two KMSS activists set themselves on fire after pouring kerosene on their bodies.
A KMSS sustained serious burn injury after his self immolation attempt in Guwahati on Monday in protest against the land patta distribution function in the city. The bizarre incident took place at 10-30 in the morning in front of the state secretariat when the KMSS activists set himself on fire after pouring kerosene on his body.Security forces on duty doused the fire promptly and rushed the KMSS activist to GMCH. District administration officials called it a serious attempt and that action would be taken against the leadership.
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Curfew has been relaxed in Borgang and Bedeti areas in Sonitpur district for 12 hours in view of the ongoing HSLC and HS examinations on Monday.According to the district administration, the situation is under control and curfew would be reimposed as situation warrants.Curfew was clamped following a fresh orgy of violence when protesters clashed with security forces during a road blockade in protest against failure to arrest the Chauldhuwa culprits.
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