21st July 2008
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Assam BJP Candidates In Desperate Crimes
Ramen
Barua, the person arrested from the residence of an MP in Delhi while
trying to extort money in the name of the ULFA, has been identified as
Ranjan Bikash Borgohain, who was the BJP candidate from the Tingkhong
legislative assembly constituency during the last Assembly polls in
Assam. He was arrested from Dhubri MP Anowar Hussain’s New Delhi
residence on saturday by the Delhi Police.
Meanwhile
another BJP candidate Anamika Barua was yesterday arrested by the
Tezpur police on charges of dacoity. Anamika was the BJP candidate from
the prestigious Tezpur assembly constituency during the last assembly
elections held in 2006. She has been accused of snatching Rs. 55,000
from a business establishment along with four armed accomplices.
Another youth and the vehicle used for the dacoity are also in police
custody.
1000 Hour Bandh To Choke Northeast
A
marathon 1000 hour bandh called by the All Koch Rajbongshi Students
Union that started yesterday might choke essential supplyies to the
entire northeastern region. The bandh has been called by the Biswajit
Roy faction of the AKRSU in support of their demand for carving out a
separate state called Kamatipur out of parts of North Bengal and Assam.
Although no untoward incident or violence was reported from anywhere,
movement of commercial vehicles was severely restricted. Buses and
trucks plying between West Bengal and Assam, bringing in essential
supplies to the northeast, were stranded on the West Bengal side of the
border. Police arrested several hundred picketeers trying to enforce
the bandh from the Lower Assam states.
ULFA Rules Out Talks
In
an statement released to the media, the ULFA has categorically ruled
out peace talks with the government of India, thereby pouring cold
water on the recent efforts by a few (now expelled) ULFA leaders to
mobilise public opinion to force the top leadership of the outfit to
sit for peace talks. The statement signed by publicity wing member
Ranjan Barthakur, also accused the pro-talk leaders led by Mrinal
Hazarika of trying to create an uprising against the ULFA leadership
and malign the image of the outfit. In referance to a recent remark by
Hazarika that the top leadership would fade away like Phizo if they
refused to sit for peace talks, the statement mentioned that A.Z.Phizo
never sat for peace talks or compromised his position and he remained
an inspiration in Nagaland and the entire Northeast. The Ulfa would
rather be like Phizo than like Laldenga, the statement said, refering
to the former Mizo National Front leader who went on to become the
Chief Minister of Mizoram after coming overground.
Cabinet Team For Fact Finding Mission To BTAD
The
Assam government has constituted a high powered team of cabinet
ministers to tour the Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD) next
week to find out the reasons for the deteriorating law and order
situation and suggest measures to restote normalcy. The cabinet
committee comprises Himanta Biswa Sarma, Rockybul Hussain, Rihan
Daimary, Chandan Brahma and Pramila Rani Brahma and they are scheduled
to visit the headquarters of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) at
Kokrajhar on saturday. This move comes after pressure from opposition
parties during the recent monsoon session of the Assembly on the
situation in the BTAD where over 50 people have died in clashes between
the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) cadres and the ex
Bodoland Liberation Tigers (BLT) this year. While the NDFB is in a
ceasefire agreement with the government of India, the BLT was disbanded
after the Bodo Accord and its leaders are now in the Bodo Peoples Front
(BPF), the ruling party in the BTC and partner of the Tarun Gogoi led
Congress government of Assam.
K.K.Handique Award For M.M.Sarma
Assam
Governor S.C. Mathur yesterday presented the Krishna Kanta Handique
Memorial Award, 2008, to noted Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
Professor Mukunda Madhav Sarma at a function at the Rabindra Bhawan.
The prestigious award was presented to Prof. Sarma in appreciation of
his contribution towards the enrichment of Sanskrit literature. The
award comprised a citation along with a cheque of Rs 2 lakh, an endi
chadar and a traditional sorai.
Prof
Sarma was the founder teacher of the postgraduate department of
Sanskrit in the Gauhati University and a UGC national lecturer in
Sanskrit. He represented India at the Udayaana University at Bali in
Indonesia, at the Fourth World Sanskrit Conference at Weimar, Germany
and the first International Symposium of Sanskritists at Mexico. The
noted Indologist is also a prolific writer and an accomplished critic
with 46 books and more than 260 research papers to his credit.
He
is associated with the Asam Sahitya Sabha and is also member of the
General Assembly of the Sahitya Akademi and its advisory board of
Sanskrit. He was earlier honored with the Anundoram Barooah Award
(2000) and the Krishna Kanta Handique Literary Award of Asam Sahitya
Sabha. He was also honoured by the Sabha as Sabha’s Sadashya Mahiyan in
the year 2007.
Honor For Assam Speaker
Speaker of the Assam assembly Tanka Bahadur Rai has been nominated to
the executive committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
(CPA), London from its India branch for a term of three years. The
announcement of Tanka Bahadur Rai’s name was declared by Somnath
Chatterjee, Speaker of the Lok Sabha and vice-president of executive
committee of CPA, London in the briefing meeting of Indian delegates
held in New Delhi on Friday for the 54th Commonwealth Parliamentary
Conference being held in KualaLumpur, Malasia in August, 2008.
1000 Crore Demanded For Kaziranga
The
two-day reconstituted State Executive Committee meet of the All Assam
Journalists’ Union (AAJU) held at Kahara in Golaghat district on July
12 and 13 urged the Central Government to sanction Rs 1000 crore for
the all-round development of the Kaziranga National Park. The
jounalists' union also resolved to move the Centre on the issue and if
necessary send a deputation to purse the matter at New Delhi. A press
meet was held on the first day at the convention hall of the Kaziranga
Park Directorate in which Surendra Nath Buragohain, Director of KNP,
welcomed the journalists with a brief speech. The history of Kaziranga
since 1905 was elaborated through a documentary show.
Congress Wooing Naga MPs Congress
leaders in Manipur and Nagaland have been urging Independent Naga MP,
Mani Cheranamei of Manipur and Nagaland People’s Front MP Wangyuh
Konyak to support the UPA at Centre during the trust vote on July 22 in
Parliament.
Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee is
making all out efforts to get Mani Cheranamei’s vote. But it seems he
is looking for a deal prior to the trust vote as he recently told the
media that he would decide on whether to oppose or support the UPA
Government during the trust vote only after the Congress made its stand
clear on the Naga issue.
Nagaland PCC chief Hokheto Sumi has also requested the ruling Nagaland
People’s Front to keep aside petty differences in political ideology
and support the UPA Government in the crucial vote.
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