The school teachers had pleaded for exemption from poll duty on grounds of poor health. The medical board set up for the polls also found them unfit for the task (Pic for representation)
GUWAHATI: The excuse of poor health to stay away from election duty could cost some school teachers dear. The Nalbari administration has recommended to the state education department voluntary retirement for 17 government school teachers who had pleaded for exemption from election duty on grounds of poor health. The medical board set up for the election, also found them unfit for election duty.
Sources in the election department said they are receiving applications from a number of government employees in various districts for exemption from poll duty, but the steps taken by the Nalbari administration has raised the eyebrows of government officials.
The order temporarily suspends implementation of the BJP-led state government’s wage hike announcement for the tea garden workers before the polls
GUWAHATI: The Gauhati high court, in an interim order on Tuesday, observed that till the court takes a final stand, the right to enhance wages of tea garden workers should be given to the tea companies and ‘no coercive action’ will be taken against them for not complying with the state government’s order on upward revision of wages issued last month.
Justice Michael Zothankhuma, while hearing a bunch of petitions filed by the Indian Tea Association along with 17 tea companies, said in his order, “Further after hearing the parties, this court is of the view that liberty should be given to the petitioners to pay to the workmen any interim enhancement of their wages as they deem proper, till the issue is finally decided by this court.”
Gauhati University students’ union, said, We need a government, which understands its responsibilities towards the greater Assamese community .
GUWAHATI: A people’s government, which listens to the people and works for the people is what students of various universities are looking forward to this election. During a conversation with TOI, they appealed to the people of the state to establish a pro-Assam government this time, which can provide a constitutional safeguard to the state and its people.
Parshaw Patgiri, general secretary of the Gauhati University students’ union, said, “We need a government, which understands its responsibilities towards the greater Assamese community. The present government does not want to listen to the people. They did everything according to their wish. In a democracy, you need to listen to the people.”
Tejashwi Prasad Yadav
PATNA: RJD leader and former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav will kickstart his election campaign for Assam assembly polls by addressing a public rally at Senairam Boarding field in Tinsukia town, the headquarters of Tinsukia district, on March 22.
It will be Tejashwi’s maiden election rally in Assam where the RJD is part of the Congress-led eight-party Grand Alliance. RJD has fielded Hira Devi, a businesswoman from the Hindi speaking community, as its candidate from Tinsukia assembly seat.
“Tejashwi will land at Assam’s Dibrugarh airport around 9.30 am on March 22. From the airport, he will go to Tinsukia via road. He will reach Tinsukia around 11.30 pm,” RJD’s Assam state president Shonarul Shah Mustafa told TOI over the phone on Wednesday.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath in a poll rally in Assam on Wednesday.
GUWAHATI: The Kamakhya temple premises, which had fallen silent since the pandemic hit the country, is buzzing back to life again, thanks to the upcoming assembly election in the state. Every leader worth his salt on campaign in Assam, is making a beeline for the holy shrine to seek the blessings of the deity.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, all visited the temple before hitting the campaign trail.
Most VVIP candidates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah, have toured upper Assam, which goes to the polls in the first phase on March 27 and missed Kamakhya because it is far away. But the ensuing second and third phase elections, slated for April 1 and 6, covering lower and central Assam districts, have suddenly increased footfall at the temple.