Politics / Assam

GUWAHATI, Jan 6—The rout of the regional Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is almost complete with the Congress stealing the wind from their sails in the race for gaining power at the panchayat level. However, due to the delay in computing the figures conclusively, a final official announcement is still awaited. According to information available with the State Election Commission office here till 7 pm today, results of 345 seats for the Zilla Parishad Members (ZPM), 1,658 seats for Anchalik Parishad Members (APM), 1,730 seats for Gaon Panchayat Presidents (GPP), 11...

GUWAHATI, Jan 5 — The future of the ongoing peace talks between the Government and militant outfit Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT) will depend on the outcome of the tripartite meeting to be held at New Delhi on January 9 and 10. However, the BLT leaders are optimistic that something positive would come out in the scheduled meeting. Talking to The Assam Tribune here today, BLT vice chairman Kamal Mushahary and publicity secretary Mainao Daimary said that they received favourable signals from both the State and the Central Governments and ‘we hope that some positive results will come out of the next...

GUWAHATI, Jan 5 – It is almost final now, only some formalities remain to be completed to make a formal and conclusive announcement. The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been made to bite the dust in the recently concluded panchayat elections of the State. According to the information available with the State Election Commission office here till 7.30 this evening, of the total 299 seats for the Zilla Parishad Member, results of which have been declared, AGP has won only eight seats and the BJP only 17, while the Congress has bagged a whopping 243 numbers of the...

GUWAHATI, Jan 4 — The State government under leadership of the Chief Minister, Sri Tarun Gogoi will continue its efforts to facilitate negotiation with the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to find an amicable solution to the insurgency problem in the state. During an informal chat with a few journalists after the foundation laying ceremony of K D Malaviya National Museum here on Thursday, the Chief Minister Sri Gogoi stated that his government had remained undeterred in its efforts to bring ULFA leadership to negotiation table despite the latter’s ‘no’ to the safe passage...

SIPAJHAR, Jan 3 – “The Asam Sahitya Sabha has united the various ethnic groups and tribes on the basis of the motto of modern liberal nationalism and it focusses on the nationalistic feelings of the people,” Asam Sahitya Sabha president Sri Homen Borgohain said. He was addressing as chief guest of the open meeting of the celebration of the foundation day of Asam Sahitya Sabha at Bordaulguri held under the auspices of Darrang District Sahitya Sabha in collaboration with its Bordaulguri branch on December 27 last.

In his speech while discussing the popular image of Sabha, he stressed proper...

GUWAHATI, Jan 1 — The Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that he would consider a ‘safe passage’ to the militants of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) as a goodwill gesture for the new year, if they responded to the Government’s appeal for negotiations, reports PTI. “I will be happy to respond to their cooperation by giving them safe passage to visit their families during the new year,” Gogoi told PTI when asked if he would offer safe passage to the ultras as a goodwill gesture. Saying that no date for commencement of the offer or its duration had decided yet, he...

KOKRAJHAR, April 30: The All Bodo Students' Union's (ABSU) support to the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance is only issue-based, said the ABSU advisor, Urkhau Gwra Brahma. Talking to The Assam Tribune here, Brahma, who is also the convenor of the steering committee formed by the ABSU and its allied organisations for the elections said: "We are not following the ideology of the AGP or the BJP and we have extended support to the alliance in the interest of finding an amicable solution to the Bodo problem". Brahma expressed the hope that the AGP-BJP alliance would be...

ITANAGAR, April 30: The Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet has decided to move the Supreme Court against the Assam Government for violations of "status-quo" in the borders areas by carrying out repeated evictions of dwelling houses of innocent Arunachalis living in adjoining areas of Assam by its police and forest officials in the pretext of border row. The decision to this effect was taken in a cabinet meeting held here today under the chairmanship of state Chief Minister Mukut Mithi. The Cabinet has decided to move the country's apex Court against the Assam Government for repeated violation of...

NELLIE, April 29: If Sirajjul Khan dreads something, it is the possibility of the AGP-BJP alliance winning the May 10 elections. One of the few survivors of the carnage at Nellie in 1983, Sirajjul makes no bones about his dislike for the BJP. And now that the ruling AGP has aligned with the saffron party, he has absolutely no doubt that the minorities in the state are in for a hard time. "One party has destroyed a mosque, while the other cannot be relied on. The AGP did not do anything for us during its five-year term in Dispur," he says. Sirajjul, a small-time contractor, says he cannot...

GUWAHATI, April 29: It's official now. State Congress president Tarun Gogoi will be the party's Chief Ministerial candidate if the party is in a position to form the next government in the State after the May 10 polls. The announcement to this effect was made by the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Kamal Nath during a news conference here this afternoon. Gogoi, currently an MP, was also present during the announcement. "Under the leadership of Tarun Gogoi, the Congress will give a government to Assam which will make the future of the youths of Assam secure", Nath...