Assam polls: Modi, Shah frequent flyers to the state, Rahul near absent
Assam polls: Modi, Shah frequent flyers to the state, Rahul near absent | India Today Insight
The contrasting approaches of the BJP’s and the Congress’ central leadership for the Assam Assembly polls displays the prime difference in the functioning of the two national parties
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UPDATED: March 16, 2021 00:10 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being felicitated with a Jaapi (traditional Assamese hat) by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal during the foundation stone laying ceremony of various projects at Silapathar, in Dhemaji district, Feb 22 (ANI)
The build-up for the upcoming assembly election in Assam suggests that the contest will be a face-off between two alliances, one led by the BJP and the other by the Congress. The BJP-led alliance includes two other parties the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), currently part of the ruling coalition, and the newly formed United People’s Party Li
The development comes ahead of the three-phase assembly election in the state that begins on March 27. Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. | Photo Credit: IANS
Guwahati: Three members of the pro-talk United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), including one of its leaders, have been arrested for an alleged plot to assassinate the state s Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, police said. On Monday a secret input was received from a reliable source that a group of ULFA (pro-talk) militants along with some unidentified members of the group conspired to assassinate the Finance Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma by using firearms and explosives, the Chief Public Relation Officers of Assam Police said.
Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, who is considered a close confidante of Rahul Gandhi, has been appointed as the observer by Congress for its Assam unit for the upcoming state Assembly polls.
The decision was announced by Assam Education and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday. Assam Education and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma | Photo Credit: IANS
Guwahati: The government of Assam has enforced an act to abolish all state-run madrassas, following which 620 such schools will be converted to general schools from April 1 onwards. A law to the effect was passed by the Assembly on December 30 and received Governor Jagdish Mukhi s assent.
The Assam Repealing Act 2020 was passed to abolish the Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995 and the Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation of Services of Employees and Re-Organisation of Madrassa Educational Institutions) Act, 2018.
Two expelled Assam Congress MLAs join BJP in run-up to Assembly elections
Golaghat MLA Ajanta Neog, who is a three-time former minister, and Lakhipur MLA Rajdeep Goala joined the BJP. They were expelled by the Congress earlier for their alleged anti-party activities.
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GUWAHATI: Just months before the Assembly elections in Assam, two MLAs who had been expelled from the opposition Congress joined the BJP on Tuesday.
Golaghat MLA Ajanta Neog, who is a three-time former minister, and Lakhipur MLA Rajdeep Goala joined the BJP at a programme in the presence of the party’s state unit chief Ranjit Kumar Dass and state’s Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Banendra Kumar Mushahary, a former MLA of the Bodoland People’s Front, also wore saffron.