Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal – who is seeking re-election from Majuli – is among 264 candidates whose fate will be determined across 47 seats in the first phase of the assembly elections that begin on March 27.Assam has a 126-member assembly and polls will be held in three phases. The seats in the first … Read more
Home minister Amit Shah has said Congress can ‘never protect’ Assam as it had an alliance with the All India United Democratic Front of Badruddin Ajmal. Only BJP can make Assam ‘infiltration free’ and ‘flood free’, he said and predicted that BJP would secure a two-thirds majority in the assembly polls. Shah took part in … Read more
Guwahati: The Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), which was formed as a reaction to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), stated that the cut-off year of 1951 being talked about was only for the purpose of Clause 6 of Assam Accord. The AJP stated that people who came to Assam between 1951 to 1971 had nothing to … Read more