Senior bank officials said that the delay in supplying of remittances by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in Guwahati caused the note crisis in most of the ATMs.
"I want to give a target for 2019 polls. We want to win more than 21 seats out of 25 seats from Northeast," Shah said addressing a rally of BJP booth unit chiefs.
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President and Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora also said when the national anthem was adopted in 1950, the then President Rajendra Prasad had said if required the anthem would be amended in future.
Prior to Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya, the NDA already ruled Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
While the BJP ruling Kerala looks almost an impossibility in the present scheme of things, the saying that "politics is the art of the possible" could well be the motivating factor for Shah and his think tank.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was following a dangerous game of destabilsation, subversion and usurpation of power in the region.
Gandhi's reaction came two days after results for assembly elections in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland were declared on Saturday. The Congress lost Meghalaya and failed to score a single seat in Tripura and Nagaland.
"Over the last four years, the Central government has resolved for emotional integration of the northeast and has achieved success," Modi said.
Under the plan, Airtel will set up over 2,000 mobile towers/sites in unconnected pockets of the North East and deliver telecom connectivity to citizens in over 2,100 villages over the next 18 months.
Sinha also informed that the construction of the Pakyong airport in Sikkim was complete and it will make reaching the northern part of the state, especially tourist attractions such as Nathu La Pass, easier.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe had discussed the possibility of boosting investment from Japan in India’s North East when they met for annual summit-level talks in Gujarat.
Floods in Assam, Bengal and Bihar have paralysed normal life, snapping rail link to the Northeast from the rest of the country.
In Assam, around 15 lakh people in 24 districts of the state have been hit by the floods.
The Delhi Golf Club, in a press release, apologised for the incident and said it "could have been handled in a much better way by the staff member.
Rijiju reminded that people from Myanmar are already coming to North East for medical treatment .
Singh said sustained security initiatives during the last three years have brought peace and stability to the Northeastern region of the country after decades of insurgency.
Beginning this year, PPP had announced its foray into children's cinema by launching three films in Sikkimese, Konkani and Hindi.
With a spectacular performance in the Manipur Assembly elections, the BJP has successfully made inroads into the third north eastern state within a year.
The Christian population is rising rapidly in at least two north-eastern states of India, namely Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.
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