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
Congress in its manifesto for Assam polls 2021 promised to restart the process of National Register of Citizens (NRC), provide Corona relief package besides waiving the debt of micro fiancé of women and construction of Cow sheds in every districts. The party has also promised loan waiver of farmers. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday … Read more
Randeep Singh Surjewala, AICC General Secretary questioned as to why there was no bridge that came up over river Brahmaputra in Majuli. He said, “We remember the speech of Narendra Modiji on world’s largest river island Majuli on 26.3.2016. He had appealed to the public to vote and they will build a bridge over the … Read more
Jailed activist Akhil Gogoi will contest the upcoming elections in Assam from Sibsagar as a candidate of his newly-floated Raijor Dal. Announcing the list of 17 candidates that the party fielded in the first two phases, Raijor Dal working president Bhasco De Saikia said that Gogoi, the party’s president, will contest from the Sibsagar constituency … Read more
The Delhi High Court Friday pulled up the Delhi Police for leakage of supplementary charge sheet filed in case related to communal violence in northeast Delhi last year to the media even before cognisance was taken by the concerned court, saying an offence is made out of the incident. Justice Mukta Gupta asked the Delhi … Read more
BJP should change the course of its campaign in West Bengal if it wants to increase its vote share in the state. Synopsis Last time BJP announced implementing CAA, defeat for the party in the Delhi assembly elections followed. Having won all seven parliamentary constituencies in Delhi in the May 2019 elections on the ‘Sabka … Read more
New Delhi: In the past few years, India has accomplished many tasks which were once considered extremely difficult to achieve, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Friday, citing the abrogation of Article 370 provisions related to Jammu and Kashmir and the enactment of the citizenship amendment law. “We have to achieve new goals with the … Read more
Kolkata: At a time when the BJP is going all out to woo the Matua community, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee reiterated her opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act that promises to benefit the community. Speaking at Ranaghat on Monday, she said the community will lose “its land and identity” if the CAA is implemented, … Read more
BIRBHUM: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the framing of rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act had been delayed because of Covid-19 and that a decision on it will be taken after the vaccination begins. Targeting the Trinamool government in West Bengal, Shah said it cannot stop infiltration as it believes in minority … Read more
NEW DELHI: BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act rules will be framed in the next one month, after which the Act will be ready for implementation in the state. “We are firm in our promise to refugees. There was some delay in framing of the rules, but the … Read more