The border row between Assam and Mizoram is turning out to be an election issue in a couple of constituencies in Assam’s and the BJP-led state’s finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has promised to resolve the issue, following requests by people in Katigorah. Recently, Assam and Mizoram were engaged in a bitter border row which … Read more
BJP national president J P Nadda on Monday accused the Congress of practising “politics of opportunism” and said Assam will head into days of “darkness” if the opposition party is voted to power. Addressing an election rally at Tingkhong in Dibrugarh district, he said the BJP has always been at the forefront to protect and … Read more
Who is Badruddin?” Fifteen years ago, former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi pointedly asked that question — and kept asking it. The year was 2006. A newly formed All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) mounted a massive election campaign, with its founder Maulana Badruddin Ajmal pumping in cash in minority-dominated pockets of lower and middle … Read more
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has said that the Congress has always sided with the illegal immigrants while his government has managed to plug all cross-border infiltration and protect the identity of the Assam people. Even as anti-CAA sentiments linger, the CM told ET that the BJP has protected all communities and there have been … Read more
In its first list of 70 candidates for Assam elections, the BJP named 11 new faces — replacing sitting party MLA, besides fielding nominees in seats earlier held by ally Asom Gana Parishad and former partner Bodoland Peoples’ Front. The BJP dropped its sitting MLAs of Sonari, Bihpuria, Lahowal, Ratabari, Silchar, Barkhola, Howraghat Diphu and … Read more
Nitin Khade Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Assam said that Assam has around 108596 doubtful voters. Assam inspector general of police (law and order), Deepak Kumar Kedia said that around 6221 non bailable warrants have been executed. Doubtful or D voter tag was first used during the preparation of electoral rolls in 1997. Doubtful voter’, … Read more
Jerenga Pathar is no ordinary farmland. Located on the outskirts of Sivasagar in Upper Assam, it symbolises heroic endurance of Assamese women. It was in this agricultural field in 1680 that Joymoti was tortured to death by Lora Roja (boy king) Sulikpha for refusing to divulge the whereabouts of her exiled husband Gadapani, a prince … Read more