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Congress MLA from Assam’s Baghbar constituency, Sherman Ali Ahmed, has been charged with “provocation with intent to cause riot” and “promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion” for his disrespectful remarks against the martyrs of the Assam Agitation
Naidu, who arrived in Guwahati on Sunday on a tour of the northeast, began his trip by inaugurating the Heritage-cum-Cultural Centre on the banks of river Brahmaputra which once used to be the base camp of the Ahom Army that resisted the Mughals from entering vast parts of Assam in the decisive 1671 battle of Saraighat.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.8 shook central Assam's Sonitpur district on Sunday, according to the data shared by National Center for Seismology (NCS).
Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed was arrested on the charge of sedition over his "provocative" remarks on the eviction drive in Assam's Darrang district, police said on Sunday. Ahmed was detained from his MLA quarter in Dispur on Saturday and taken to the Panbazar police station for interrogation before being arrested, they said.