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GUWAHATI: Faced with a tough election, the BJP, which heads Assam’s three-party ruling coalition, is doling out cash and various schemes to tea garden voters to keep them in good humour.
Assam has 126 Assembly seats and in 40-42 of them in Upper, Central, and Northern Assam besides Barak Valley, the votes of the tea garden workers determine the fate of political parties.
As the BJP is expected to face a challenge in the aftermath of the formation of a Congress-led grand alliance of six Opposition parties and the birth of two regional forces, it is now trying to win over the tea workers to retain power.
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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.
Assam elections 2021: PM Modi to visit state on Feb 07
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Published: Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 16:56 [IST]
Guwahati, Feb 03: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Assam on February 7 and lay the foundation stone of two medical colleges and launch the scheme for the upgradation of the state highways, state Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Wednesday.
This will be Modi s second visit to the poll-bound state in a fortnight.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
The assembly election in Assam is due in March-April this year.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman too is scheduled to visit Guwahati on February 6 and be present at a programme where money will be given to the bank accounts of eight lakh tea garden workers in the state, SAra told press conference here.