Our reputation is of working for people: Sheila Dikshit after being fielded by Congress from North East Delhi
Politics | April 23, 2019 16:03 ISTHer predecessor Ajay Maken will contest as the Congress candidate from New Delhi.
Her predecessor Ajay Maken will contest as the Congress candidate from New Delhi.
Gandhi said after winning the Lok Sabha polls, Congress members should work towards bringing back the party to power in all the states, from where it was thrown out in a "wrong way".
Earlier in the day, the Lok Sabha passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill that seks to remove hurdles in granting citizenship to eligible migrants, especially Hindus, from six minority groups from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Over 5.64 lakh people have been affected by the flood in Assam.
More than 400 relief camps have been opened in the flood-hit districts where over 1.59 lakh people have taken shelter.
The ASDMA said over 4.48 lakh people have been affected in Hojai, Karbi Anglong West, Golaghat, Karimganj, Hailakandi and Cachar districts.
The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) in its report said that more than 4.25 lakh people have been affected in Assam's Hojai, Karbi Anglong East, Karbi Anglong West, Golaghat, Karimganj, Hailakandi, and Cachar districts.
In the meeting, it was informed that an amount of Rs 20 crore in two phases would be spent to undertake relief and restoration works for the marooned people in the two districts.
The CM also asked the state officials to reach out to the marooned people with relief materials and medical aids at the earliest.
While two lives were lost on Wednesday, a 50-year-old farmer was washed away by the Khowai river and his body was recovered from Sonalata area on Thursday.
Northeast reels under floods thousands rendered homeless, IMD predicts more showers till June 15
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.
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