Assam CM Himanta hits out at Karnataka MLA Priyank Kharge NEW DELHI: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday addressed recent criticism from Karnataka MLA Priyank Kharge and defendedsetting up of a semiconductor plant in Assam. CM Sarma said the region has become a significant center for the semiconductor industry.Responding to Kharge’s remarks on…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister and BJP‘s state election co-in-charge Himanta Biswa Sarma addressed the demographic issue in Jharkhand stating that “NRC (National Register of Citizens) will be done and the people whose names will not be there in NRC, we will have to push them away to Bangladesh.”“This will be our policy. Everyone will…
NEW DELHI: Former BJP MP and party in-charge for Assam, Harish Dwivedi, made a controversial claim on Thursday, alleging that a specific community was waging a ‘jihad’ by producing more children to gain control of the country’s political system and impose their religious beliefs. He said that the government was taking serious measures to address…
NEW DELHI: On Friday, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma revealed that his suspicions about a man who wanted to donate Rs 1 crore to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund led to the discovery of a multi-crore online trading scam. Sarma explained that his doubts prompted an investigation, which eventually exposed the scam involving substantial…
NEW DELHI: The eviction drive in Assam turned violent on Thursday as a mob clashed with the police, which to push back the protestors, resorted to lathi charge and opened fire — leading to the death of two people. Assam Police was carrying out the drive to evict alleged encroachers in the Kamrup (Metropolitan) district…
NEW DELHI: Several BJP leaders on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Congress leader and Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, following his meeting with US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya accused Gandhi and the Congress party of aligning with anti-India forces.Malviya took to X, alleging, “India’s leader of opposition…
GUWAHATI: The BJP-led Assam cabinet has accepted 57 of the 67 recommendations by an MHA-constituted commission on implementation of constitutional, legal, and administrative safeguards for “Assamese people”, as envisaged in Clause 6 of the tripartite 1985 Assam Accord.CM Himanta Biswa Sarma termed the Justice (retd) Biplab Sarma Commission’s report, submitted in Feb 2020, “one of…
NEW DELHI: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday hinted at a conspiracy behind the deaths of 12 aspirants during physical tests for excise constable recruitment drive in the state as he claimed “faulty” Covid vaccines were administered to people in the state. “The Covid vaccines administered to people in Jharkhand were faulty. Its impact…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attacked on Saturday the INDIA bloc following remarks made by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, who referred to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma as the “Chinese version of Yogi.” BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla drew parallels between Tejashwi Yadav’s comment and the racist remarks made by…
NEW DELHI: Janata Dal United (JDU) leader Neeraj Kumar on Saturday criticised the Assam government‘s decision to end the practice of a two-hour adjournment for Jumma prayers in the state assembly. He claimed that the decision, which was unanimously taken by Hindu and Muslim MLAs, undermines religious beliefs and suggests that the Assam chief minister…
