Taking a dig at Deepika Padukone over her participation in JNU vigil, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said actors were in the habit of visiting disturbed areas to create controversies and get free publicity before the release of their films.
Arundhati Gold Scheme update: If marriage is on your cards then government of this state has good news for the brides. The Assam government is set to start the Arundhati gold scheme by January 2020 for the registered newly married couples.
"We are not happy with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) that has been released. If there is no national NRC then we have to have a fresh NRC or revision of it. We don't accept the NRC which was published," Assam Minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
"Names of many Indian citizens who migrated from Bangladesh as refugees prior to 1971 have not been included in the NRC because authorities refused to accept refugee certificates," Sarma said in the micro blogging site.
When protest broke out against the Centre's plan to bring the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, (CAB) -- dubbed to be against the interest of the indigenous people of the region -- many political commentators believed that it would mar the BJP's chances in the general elections in the North East.
The convoy of West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh was allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers days before the sixth round of polling in West Bengal.
The state does not need any such agitation which creates only regressive atmosphere, the senior BJP leader said.
Former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta had committed the first blunder by signing the Assam Accord and the party made the second ''historic blunder'' by not extending support to the Bill, Sarma said.
Sarma, a former Congress leader and now a BJP spearhead in the North East region, mocked Gandhi over his recent claims, saying he will also seek credit for the sunlight that follows rains.
The Assam government on Wednesday announced that it would deposit Rs 2,500 each to over seven lakh bank accounts of tea garden workers that were opened just after the demonetisation drive two years ago
The legislators will be able to access the tablets during discussions and cut motion on the Budget inside the House.
In his latest tweet, the minister said that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's dog 'Pidi' "likes privileged people" so he must be having a liking for senior Congress leader P Chidambaram.
"Cancer is divine justice for sins' says Assam Minister Sarma. That is what switching parties does to a person," Chidambaram tweeted.
AIUDF leader Aminul Islam asserted that the health minister made this remark to cover his failure to control the spread of cancer in the state.
MLAs Sudip Roy Barman, Ashish Kumar Saha, Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl, Biswa Bandhu Sen and Pranjit Singh Roy met BJP President Amit Shah in New Delhi on Saturday, he said.
Sarma, a cabinet minister in Assam, will assume his duties with immediate effect and will serve as the chairperson of the commission for a two-year tenure.
BJP leader and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was elected President of the Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Sunday.
BJP’s poll strategist and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sharma has predicted that his party will win the people’s mandate in Meghalaya in 2018 Assembly elections.
Racking up the issue of illegal migrants in the state, senior BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday stated that it is his party’s policy to differentiate between Hindu and Muslim migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.
Guwahati: Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday alleged that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had "colluded and conspired" against the state by not giving it oil royalty on pre-discounted price. "Manmohan Singh
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