Assam Politics

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Congress skips Assembly meet on Asom situation
By our Staff ReporterGUWAHATI, Oct 10: Sincerity of the Congress on the current situation in Asom can be gauged from the very fact that none of the 52 legislators of the party in the State Assembly (barring the Speaker) was present at the all-party meeting of the House on the current situation in the State that was called by Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai following an advice from Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. None from the BJP was also present at the meeting. However, BJP leader Mission Ranjan Das told the Speaker over telephone that his party had full support to the decision taken by the all-party meeting today. Das said that the BJP would be a part of the all-party delegation that would visit the riot-affected areas of the State.According to sources, a delegation of the Assembly will visit the riot-affected areas in Darrang and Udalguri districts on October 16.The meeting was attended by AGP’s Chandra Mohan Patowary, Ramendra Narayan Kalita and Nurul Hussain, AUDF’s Rashul Haq Bahadur and Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuyan, and CPI’s Dhrupad Borgohain. The meeting appealed to the people to exercise restraint to restore peace in the State. source: sentinel assam
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AGP-P, TGP, PLP leaders in dark
By our Staff ReporterGUWAHATI, Oct 10: Though the AGP and its offshoots AGP-P, TGP and PLP have been working to meet their October 14 date for their grand reunification at Golaghat, the unification modalities are not yet ready. The AGP-P, TGP and the PLP are still in dark about the rehabilitation of their leaders in the united AGP.In order to get the picture clear, AGP-P general secretary Hemanta Kalita wrote a letter to AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary and unification committee convenor Phani Bhushan Choudhury asking them to make the unification modalities ready before October 12 when the general council of the AGP-P will meet to put its final seal on the proposed unification. Meanwhile, when contacted, AGP unification committee convenor Phani Bhushan Choudhury said: “The modalities for AGP unification will be ready on or before October 12, and all the AGP factions will be united on October 14 at Golaghat.” source: sentinel assam