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Congress to organise mass rally in Assam

September 20, 2011 By 1 Comment

After facing lot of protest from opposition parties in Assam as well as powerful student organisation AASU ( All Assam Student Organisation), Congress government in Assam has decided to organise rallies in Assam in order to educate about the recent “land swap” deal with Bangladesh.

While opposition parties, AGP ( Assam Gana Parishad) and BJP ( Bharatiya Janata Party), has been claiming that government has given away land to Bangladesh, Congress Government has maintained that it has gained land from Bangladesh, not ceded any.
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Congress set to return to power in Assam

May 13, 2011 By 3 Comments

As per early trend, Congress is certain to return to power in Assam, this time with simple majority on its own. Today, initial vote counting result shows it gaining early lead with leading in as many as 70 seats, while AGP is trailing at distant second with 22 seats.

As for big leaders, Himanta Biswa Sarma is leading by more than 41000 votes from his nearest rival BJPs Pradyut Bora. AGP President C M Patiwari was trailing his Congress rival in his Dharmapur constituency.
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Assam Assembly Result Prediction heats up : Our Poll Result

May 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Immediately after the last leg of polling ended in West Bengal, many news channel have come out with their Exit Poll results. In Assam too, depending on their leaning, both DY365 and NewsLive Channels have highlighted result favouring their parties. NewsLive TV had made it headline as well as breaking news “The CNN-IBN-The Week post-poll” which predicted clear and absolute winning by Congress with more than 71 seats.

While DY365 channel, supposed to be AGP supporter, is predicting close fight between AGP and Congress as per Star News exit poll. Assam Tribune had published all exit poll results. Result would be declared on 13th May 2011, Friday day after tomorrow.
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Rs. 2 Crore for ULFA Peace Talk and Assam Election

April 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Recent news report in various news papers tells the story that, ULFA has been given Rs. 2 crore ( as per Asian Age Rs. 40 lac as per Assam Tribune) for daily expenses of ULFA leaders as well as its 400 overground cadres who are now in designated camps at various places in Assam.

According to Asian Age, the pro-talk group of ULFA led by Arabinda Rajkhowa ( currently released on bail from Guwahati jail after he was arrested from Bangladesh and pushed back to India) sought the financial assistance from Government.
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Assam Assembly Election update week – 6

April 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This is the second last update on Assam Assembly Election 2011. The final update will after 13th May 2011 when the votes would be counted and result would be declared. Since EVM ( Electronic Voting Machine) is being used, we can expect all the result by afternoon itself.

The campaign for second and final phase of voting for 64 seats in lower Assam had come to an end yesterday on 9th April 2011. An electorate of more than 96lacs would decide 64 MLAs among 596 candidates on 11 April 2011.
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Assam Election 2011 Updates for last week – 2

March 13, 2011 By 3 Comments

Continuing with Assam Election 2011 update from last Sunday, here is the interesting updates again for last week. With Congress declaring its list of candidates for 118 seats in Assam, the contest pattern has almost emerged now.

Dissidents continue to trouble both AGP ( Asom Gana Parishad) as well as BJP ( Bharatiya Janata Party) as there are many ticket seekers either leaving party or deciding to contest as an independent. SOme major incidents of last week on Assam Election 2011 are :-
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Prodyut Bora will contest against Himanta Biswa Sarma

March 12, 2011 By 1 Comment

Pradyut Bora, state general secretary of BJP ( Bharatiya Janata Party) will contest against Himanta Biswa Sarma in Jalukbari constituency in next Assam assembly election. Though Himnata Biswa Sarma’s candidature from Congress has not been made public, but his ticket from Congress is almost certain.

Pradyut Bora is an IIM-A ( Indian Institute of Management – Ahmadabad) and known for spearheading L K Advanis online campaign in last Lok Sabha election in India.
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Assam Election 2011 Updates for last week – 1

March 6, 2011 By 2 Comments

Almost a week passed by and there has been many interesting development, incidents had taken place so far in Assam. We would try to summarize few such interesting incidents in our weekly update on every Sunday.

The complete election scenario has not been clear yet apart from few constituencies as the list of candidates by by major political parties have not been finalised yet. Some of the interesting election related incidents have been listed below :-
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