Politics / Assam

GUWAHATI, March 30 ?Though the payment of salaries and pension by the State Government for the month of February is on, the troubles of the Government employees are far from over. The secretary general of the Sadou Asom Karmachari Parishad (SAKP Sri Charan Deka said that the Government has been releasing salaries only for the month of February but more than 50 per cent of the employees have not received their salaries even for the month of January. ?As today is the last working day of the month, the employees should have received their salaries for the month of March today but they are still...

NEW DELHI, March 25 ? In keeping with its principle of one-man-one-post, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) today appointed senior MP Paban Singh Ghatowar as president of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (AICC). Although Sri Ghatowar was tipped to take over the State Congress chief?s post for sometime now, the AICC weighed all options including consultations with Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi before announcing his appointment here today. Sri Ghatowar was summoned by the general secretary in-charge for Assam, Kamal Nath this morning to hand over his appointment letter signed by AICC...

GUWAHATI, March 24? The banned ULFA has sent out a ?desperate appeal? to the Centre to hold talks with the outfit and solve the ongoing insurgency issue in Assam. ?We desperately want a solution to the ongoing conflict in the State and the three conditions have been already set out by us,? said the editorial of the banned outfit?s mouthpiece Swadhinata (Freedom) in its latest issue which was e-mailed to a few local media here today. The ULFA wants that talks be held in a third country, under UN supervision and that the issue of Assam?s sovereignty be discussed.?

GUWAHATI, March 24? The All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU) today made a fervent appeal to Smt Pramila Rani Brahma, MLA, to withdraw her resignation letter as leader of the Bodoland Demand Legislature Party (BDLP). Smt Brahma resigned from the post yesterday resenting the defiance by the ABSU-supported member of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council of the ABSU and BDLP instructions in connection with the election of the Chief Executive Member (CEM) of the Autonomous Council.

The ABSU central committee and the BDLP had asked the ABSU-supported member, Sri Thorendra Brahma, to support the ASDC (U)...

GUWAHATI, March 23 ? A fuming Promila Rani Brahma, the senior Bodoland Legislature Party (BDLP) MLA today resigned from the post of leader of the party in the State Assembly protesting the role played by the ABSU-supported member of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) in the election to CEM post on March 19 last. The move of Smt Brahma is construed to be potent enough to jeopardise the recent effort of opposition AGP, BJP, ASDC and BDLP to forge a workable alliance in the State Assembly.

GUWAHATI, March 21 ? The State Government offices all over the State including the State Secretariat, the nerve centre of the administration, was paralysed in the second half for the fifth day today because of the ceasework by employees. The agitating employees led by Sadou Asam Karmachari Parishad (SAKP) paralysed work at the State Secretariat here despite deployment of a large number of CRPF personnel in and around the capital complex today. The State employees have been agitating for non-payment of salaries for the month of February by the cash-strapped Tarun Gogoi Government till date. The...

GUWAHATI, March 20 ? The move to create the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) today received a boost as on all-party meet convened by the Chief Minister, Sri Tarun Gogoi adopted a resolution favouring the creation of the Council with adequate constitutional safeguards to the non-Bodo people living in the proposed BTC area. An official release said that the meeting called for constitutional safeguards including political, social, economic, cultural, educational, language and land rights as well as other safeguards of the non-Bodos. The meeting expressed the view that the boundary of the...

GUWAHATI, March 18 ? It is a mere refinery with only 0.65 million metric tonne per annum (MMTPA) capacity. It has no contribution to the industrial development of the country and hence it can never deserve a special treatment. Perhaps, this was the belief in the higher echelons of the Central Government when the announcement for 50 per cent excise duty relief to Digboi Refinery was made recently. The Refinery has been making feverish pleas for the past several years to provide it with a 100 per cent excise duty relief only to enable it to go for product diversification. But the said belief...

GUWAHATI, March 18 ? The state government employees today are in dire-straits because of the failure of the Government to pay their salaries regularly even as the week-long ceasefire by the employees demanding regular payment of salaries and wages continued to cripple the functioning of the departments. The employees staged hour-long demonstration in front of their respective offices from 1 pm for the second day today and the Sadau Asom Karmachari Parishad (SAKP) has threatened to intensity the agitation it the salaries and wages are not paid soon.

The SAKP secretary general Sri Charan Deka...

DIBRUGARH, March 17 ? The simmering inter-state border dispute at the Koriapani area near Margherita has cooled down after cordial meetings between senior civil officials of Tinsukia district and Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. There have been reports that some miscreants encroached into Assam territory at Koriapani recently and declared that the place was a part of Arunachal Pradesh. On Friday, the Tinsukia DC, Samir Kumar Sinha and his Changlang counterpart, Talem Tapok, aided by the Margherita civil SDO, Ratul Chandra Duarah, sat in a friendly meeting and discussed the fracas and...