Politics / Assam

Guwahati, Jan. 31: The Assam government will move the Centre against the Bajrang Dal?s plan to launch a survey for determining the number of Bangla-deshi migrants residing in the state.

The government?s official spokesman, Ripun Bora, said the Centre would be informed about the survey since the matter is sensitive. If the Centre?s response is not satisfactory, Dispur is prepared to initiate action against the illegal survey by the Bajrang Dal, he added.

?The influx of foreigners is not only Assam?s problem, but a national issue. The state government will first consult with New Delhi on the...

GUWAHATI, Jan 30? The All Assam Koch Rajbongshi Sanmilani and the All Koch Rajbongshi Students? Union have called upon the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to take immediate steps to include Kochi Rajbongshi community in the list of Scheduled Tribes.

In a memorandum to the Prime Minister, the Sanmilani and the Students? Union said that the Koch Rajbongshi community fulfils all the criteria required for inclusion in the list of Scheduled Tribes but unfortunately, the community was not included in the Comprehensive Revision Bill for SC and ST, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August...

Guwahati, Jan. 29: In a move sure to raise the hackles of the NSCN (I-M), the Dima Halam Daoga (DHD) has launched a campaign to garner support for the inclusion of Dimapur in the separate ?Dimaraji state? demanded by the outfit.

In a message to the ?citizens of Dimaraji,? the outfit has claimed that the Sundaram Committee appointed by the Centre for ascertaining facts regarding the Assam-Nagaland border had recommended that ?Dimapur should be returned to Assam?.

To substantiate its claim that the inclusion of Dimapur in Nagaland was ?temporary,? the militant outfit claimed that the first...

GUWAHATI, Jan 29 ? After three years of peace talks between the State and Central Governments and the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), only one issue, that is reservation of seats in the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) is delaying the signing of an accord for solution of the vexed problem. The leaders of the BLT are not willing to accept the State Government?s proposal on reservation of seats in the proposed council to be formed under the provisions of the amended Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, while, the State Government, on its part, is yet to take any decision on the...

Guwahati, Jan. 24: Peeved over the NSCN (I-M)?s claim over a large area of Karbi Anglong in its proposed Nagalim, the Karbi Students? Association has decided to submit a representation to the Centre opposing any move to divide the hill district.

The association president Roland Kiling told The Telegraph here that the representation would be sent to the Centre after an official resolution is passed at the general conference of the students? organisation to be held at Diphu from January 29.

?Karbi Anglong is for the Karbis and there can be no question of giving even an inch of our land to others...

Rangiya, Jan. 24: A land deluged with milk and honey ? this was Bodoland viewed through the prism of wild jungles in Bhutan, where Promilla Ishwari and her militant-husband Lohit Ishwari fought a futile battle.

Nothing came out of the fight for ?freedom, equality and justice? ? ideals, which Lohit had strapped to his soul like a priest?s cross.

Lohit, with Promila in tow, today deposited the gun at a surrender ceremony involving several NDFB and Ulfa rebels, held at the Red Horns division?s base in this Kamrup sub-division.

After three years of life in jungles for the cause of Bodoland...

NEW DELHI, Jan 24 ? The final disposal of the petition seeking scrapping of the controversial IMDT Act is likely to be delayed with the Supreme Court today asking the Central and Assam Governments to file an updated status report on illegal infiltration from across the border. The case has been posted for further hearing in April. A three-member Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India VN Khare today responding to a plea by petitioner Sarbananda Sonowal?s counsel. Ashok Desai asked the two Governments to file an updated status report on the number of illegal migrants and the...

GORESWAR, Jan 22 ? ?The non-Bodos have no right to speak against the ongoing process of the formation of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), because the proposed BTC is not meant only for the Bodos but for all who are living inside the previous Bodoland Autonomous Council (BAC) area,? said the president of the Kamrup District Committee of the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU). Addressing the open session of the 15th annual conference of Goreswar Anchalik Committee unit of the All Bodo Students? Union held in the Bihu Ram Boro High School premises, Balabari recently, he said that the Bodos...

Sangbor Hills (North Cachar), Jan. 21: Barely three weeks after a ceasefire between the militant Dima Halam Daoga (DHD) and the Centre began, the outfit has accused security forces of violating the ground rules that were framed for cessation of hostilities.

The charges were levelled at a press briefing ? the first since the ceasefire came into effect ? at the outfit?s ?third battalion headquarters? at Sangbor, 46 km from Umrangshu in North Cachar Hills district.

DHD president Jewel Garlosa alleged that during the past three weeks, there had been four incidents of violation of ceasefire ground...

Guwahati, Jan. 21: Mortar attacks have added a ?new dimension? to security perceptions in the Assam capital, but police are fully prepared to quell the latest arsenal of militants, director-general of police Hare Krishna Deka said today.

Talking to The Telegraph, Deka said the shelling on December 25 had forced a change in the security strategy. ?All efforts are on to ensure that the coming Republic Day will be free from trouble.? Deka had yesterday reviewed the security scene at a meeting of deputy inspectors-general of police.

The new security strategy has already paid off, the police chief...