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With polls round the corner in Assam and the Bodo region expected to play a key role in deciding BJP’s fate, Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said that the third Bodo Accord signed under the aegis of the Centre in January, 2020 will be the agreement to be implemented the fastest in the country in recent times.
The BJP-led Assam government will distribute a record number of 30,000 appointment letters on a single day in poll-bound Assam on February 5.
North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convener and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday dared newly floated regional parties in the state, Aasu-backed Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) and KMSS-supported Raijor Dal, to unite with Congress-AIUDF and 'consolidate the Miya (migrant) Muslim votes' in the fight against BJP in the upcoming Assam election.
Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) has filed a petition before the Supreme Court, challenging the Gauhati High Court order which rejected the bail plea of the peasants’ body chief Akhil Gogoi.
The Assam excise department has put in place an action plan to check and control the production, distribution and supply of illicit liquor in the state before and during the assembly polls.
President Ram Nath Kovind’s address to the joint sitting of Parliament on the inaugural day of the budget session on Friday started with a verse penned by ‘Asom Kesari’ and nationalist poet Ambikagiri Raichoudhury who had laid the foundation for strengthening Assamese identity but within the framework of the grand Indian nationality.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited the state on Sunday, is likely to visit the state again on February 7, to address campaigns ahead of the upcoming assembly election.
Four persons, including a nine-year-old child and a woman of a picnic party, have drowned in the Brahmaputra at Baghmora, about 20 km from Jorhat town.
Two persons, including a woman, were killed and one was injured after unidentified gunmen opened indiscriminate fire in a village in Karbi Anglong district of Assam, police said on Thursday.
Even as the vaccination drive is on in full swing, the number of Covid tests being conducted in some northeastern states now is below the national average.
Assam police have sounded an alert across the state and stepped up vigil along the borders to prevent “extremist elements for entering” in view of Republic Day celebrations.
In major relief for health officials of the state, none of the 300 security personnel and members of the march-past groups, who will be taking part in Tuesday’s Republic Day parade, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
On the eve of 72nd Republic Day, Violet Baruah, the first deputy inspector general of police, Bodoland Territorial Region, has been conferred this year’s President’s police medal for distinguished service along with 13 other police officers of different ranks for meritorious service.
Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) MLA from Naharkatia assembly constituency in Dibrugarh district, Naren Sonowal, is the richest legislator among sitting MLAs in the Assam assembly with total assets of Rs 33 crore as per an analysis by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
A total of 64 per cent of 6.46 lakh youths, who turned 18 this year, have been enrolled in the final electoral rolls in Assam. Office of the Assam chief electoral officer (CEO) has given a commitment to the Election Commission that cent percent of the young voters will be enrolled in the electoral rolls before the upcoming assembly polls.
Assam Congress on Monday said the pre-poll alliance and subsequent seat sharing arrangements with All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the Left parites and other regional units for the upcoming Assam assembly elections will be strictly based on a “common minimum programme”.
Assam’s longest-serving chief minister, late Tarun Gogoi, was on Monday named among the 10 Padma Bhushan awardees from across the country.
Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday in his first campaign rally for Assam election 2021 at Nalbari said the state will not be safe from infiltrators if it falls in the hands of Congress and Badruddin Ajmal and “only the Narendra Modi government can keep the state free from them”.
Around 10 lakh pig farmers, who were affected by the death of pigs due to African Swine Fever last year, will boycott the assembly polls if they are not compensated before the election, the North East Progressive Pig Farmers’ Association (NEPPFA) has said. It said the farmers should be provided compensation either in the form of money or fresh pigs to help them tide over the crisis.
Union home minister Amit Shah in his address in Kokrajhar on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started his mission to end militancy in the entire northeast with the signing of the Bodo accord one year ago.
The All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) on Sunday staged statewide protests against Union home minister Amit Shah’s visit to Assam by waving black flags and burning copies of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
The Congress on Sunday countered Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 10 statements during his visit to Sivasagar on Saturday, accusing him of giving “false interpretation” of developmental goals achieved by the BJP-led government in the poll-bound state.
Security was beefed up across the state ahead of Republic Day celebrations as Assam Police sounded high alert to all district police heads after the boycott call from various militants outfit.
Assamese film ‘Bridge’ by Kripal Kalita won a special jury mention award at the 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) — the second Assamese film to receive such a recognition at the festival after Santwana Bardoloi-directed ‘Adajya’ in 1996. The latter had received the jury award.
The Assam unit of Unicef, on the occasion of National Girl Child day, applauded people of the state and the government for promoting women-centric policies.
Healthcare workers in Assam, who have already received the jab, will start receiving the second dose of the vaccine shot from February 16. By that time, the state wants to administer the first dose to one lakh healthcare workers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday projected BJP as the sole protector of the ‘mul niwasi’ (indigenous inhabitants) of poll-bound Assam as he doled out pattas to landless natives at the historic Sivasagar — the heart of the massive protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in December, 2019.
PM Narendra Modi on Saturday said Assam is coming up as a major center of “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” by constructing toilets, improving power and drinking water coverage and bettering infrastructure.
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Assam, several organisations, including Aasu, Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and Assam wing of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), staged protests on Saturday, demanding scrapping of the farm laws and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) on Saturday, despite welcoming the Assam government’s decision to give land pattas to landless indigenous people, called it a “political gimmick to appease a certain section of the society”.
The Congress on Saturday reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi of his unfulfilled promises of implementing the Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, reviving two defunct paper mills and finding a solution to the decades-old problems of flood and erosion. The party also asked him as to why he skipped these issues while addressing the rally at Sivasagar.
BJP on Saturday lambasted Congress for accusing Modi of not talking about the core issues of Assam during his visit to Sivasagar on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lent his voice on behalf of Assam government as the most powerful campaigner for Covid vaccination, which has taken a sluggish start in the state as just 13,000 healthcare workers have been inoculated in the last five days as against a target of 30,000.
Banned militant outfit Dimasa National Liberation Army (DNLA) has called a 36-hour strike in the Dima Hasao district starting from Sunday in remembrance of the two youths who died in police firing at the Maibang railway station on January 25, 2018.
Assamese films are back after a 10-month hiatus and the first movie — Himanshu Prasad Das’s ‘Goru’ (Cow) — has attracted thousands of film buffs at the Kumar Bhaskar Natya Mandir at Uzanbazar here. The film has received rave reviews with people calling it a true representation of the current political scenario of Assam.
Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday announced extension of the Ayushman Bharat health scheme to Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and stated that it will benefit 50 lakh people, including CAPF personnel and their families.
Three persons were killed and 23 others injured in three separate road accidents in Assam, police said on Saturday.
Assam and Tripura have vaccinated the most number of healthcare workers as compared to the other northeastern states, where the inoculation drive is yet to pick up pace.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday address a rally for the upcoming assembly elections at the historic Jerenga Pathar in Sivasagar district, where sati Joymoti Konwari had set an example with her message of righteousness more than 300 years back.
The EC routinely classifies polling stations as “sensitive” and “hypersensitive” based on the extent of their vulnerability to violence.
Assam and Bihar on Thursday moved to secure the safe return of two kidnapped oil company executives — one each from either state — after the Paresh Baruah-led Ulfa(I) released videos purportedly showing the duo appealing to chief ministers Sarbananda Sonowal and Nitish Kumar to do what it takes to get them back home.
