Assembly ruckus forces Assam Guv to cut short speech
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Thu, Feb 11 2021 22:42 IST |
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Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Guwahati, Feb 11 : The last Budget session of the Assam Assembly ahead of the April-May elections, got off to a tempestuous start on Thursday, with the Opposition MLAs displaying placards over various issues and trooping into the well of the House, forcing Governor Jagdish Mukhi to cut short his customary speech.
The Opposition Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) legislators began shouting slogans against the misgovernance of the BJP-led government including corruptions soon after the Governor started reading his speech on the opening day of the three-day Budget session.
In poll-bound Assam, MEA goes for Japanese push
Wed, Feb 10 2021 04:58:44 PM
By Aarti Tikoo Singh
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS): At a time when Modi 2.0 has ticked all checkboxes in providing vaccine aid to India s neighbours, the Centre has ratcheted up a mega plan for a strategic partnership with Japan in poll-bound Assam.
Ahead of the state Assembly elections, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will be taking a Japanese delegation headed by their Ambassador to India, Kenji Hiramatsu, to the northeastern state on February 14, a move seen as fillip to NDA s Look East policy.
Official sources in MEA confirmed to IANS that Jaishankar and a Japanese delegation will physically review some of the Japanese-aided projects that are under construction in Assam. The Sarbananda Sonowal government in Assam has already acquired 2,000 bighas of land in Nagarbera for an upcoming Japanese Industrial Township.
Congress in alliance talks with miffed BJP ally Bodoland People’s Front (BPF)
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Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had recently said, “Together with UPPL, we will contest the assembly polls in Bodoland. In February we will announce seat-sharing with UPPL,” clearly showing their preference to the UPPL, and not BPF.
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A senior BPF leader Khampa Borgoyary told ET, “Talks are on at different levels and a formal stand will be made on February 15 and 16”.
Guwahati: The Congress is in talks with the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), which is currently a BJP ally in the ruling government, for a possible alliance to fight this year’s assembly polls.
New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI): Gearing up for Assam Assembly polls, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will start campaigning in the state from Shiv Sagar on February 14, said sources.