Aam Aadmi Party Silchar, Cachar

Cachar AAP prepares for poll battle from grassroots level

SILCHAR, July 28: Cachar Aam Aadmi Party has started its preparation for next year’s parliamentary elections by launching its units in block levels across the district by next month.

The resolution for block level committees was taken today by the members of the party at a meeting held here under the presidentship of Nirmal Kumar Das. Initially, the units of Aam Aadmi party will be formed at Silchar, Udarbond, Borkhola, Katigorah, Kalain, Borjalenga, Narsingpur, Binnakandi, Rajabazar, Sonai, Palangghat and Lakhipur blocks.

During the meeting, the block secretaries submitted their progress report regarding the formation of full–fledged committees.

Dilip Kumar, coordinator, Cachar Aam Aadmi Party, said that unprecedented corruption has pushed the people to the brink of destitution and poverty. The tentacles of corruption according to him have spread over all the departments from health to defence in the country, making the life of the denizens miserable.

He said that whenever people raised their voices against corruption, almost all the political parties comes out together to shut the voices. This only has revealed that all the parties irrespective of their political ideologies are same and they abet all sorts of anomalies and irregularities, he alleged.

Aam Aadmi Party leader said that they vowed to work towards creating a system where the elected political leaders will be directly answerable to the voters. He also spoke on the vision of AAP.

Budha Pratim Deb, district secretary, threw light on the different problems faced by the people of the country. Other members of the party who included Fosi Khan, Parimal Sinha and Afjal Hussain spoke on the occasion.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), formed by a social activist, Arvind Kejriwal, is a “political party”, registered under Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. However, its symbol is yet to be declared by the Election Commission.

Among distinguished personalities of the town present at the meeting included Haridas Dutta, secretary of Nagarik Sartha–Raksha Sangram Parishad, Digendra Chandra Das, and Bulbul Laskar today officially joined the Party as member.

Source: The Sentinel 29.07.2013

KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi arrested

KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi being taken away by security personnel after he was arrested while the peasant organisation staged a protest outside Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) office, Bhangagarh in Guwahati on Wednesday demanding to scrap the proposal of privatisation of urban drinking water scheme. (Sentinel)

Postmen took out a protest rally in Guwahati demanding proper dress code hike in salary

Demanding proper dress code hike in salary and various other demands, postmen took out a protest rally in Guwahati on Wednesday. (Sentinel)

Shree Shivamahapurana and Shiva Shakti Mahajagya’’ at Maligaon Guwahati

Devotees taking part in Kalash Yatra during the inaugural day of 11 day long ’’Shree Shivamahapurana and Shiva Shakti Mahajagya’’ at Maligaon near in Guwahati on Wednesday. (Sentinel)

Demanding a separate Frontier Nagaland by ENPO

Demanding a separate Frontier Nagaland, leaders of the Eastern Nagaland Peoples Organisation (ENPO) along with students and local taking part at a public rally at Tuensang town in east Nagaland on Wednesday. Six different tribes took part in the rally. (Sentinel)

Tractors and seed plantation machines to be distributed among agriculturists in Cachar

Encouraging farmers with updated tools and machinery for boosting up agricultural and horticultural crops in Cachar as a part of modernization process. Nilamani Sen Deka, Minister of Agriculture, along with departmental officials, overseeing the tractors and seed plantation machines to be distributed among agriculturists. (Sentinel)

Devastating fire at Uzanbazar Market, Guwahati

Some 24 hours before, he had his business here and now it is just ash that all remains. A shop owners look at the debris of his shop at Uzanbazar Market, Guwahati on Saturday, which was gutted in a devastating fire on Saturday night. (Sentinel)

Activists of the Asom Yuva Santha (AYS) burning the effigy of Tarun Gogoi

Activists of the Asom Yuva Santha (AYS) burning the effigy of Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in Guwahati on Saturday, protesting against Gogoi-led State government?s failure to control price hike of essential commodities and other issues. (Sentinel)

Leopard rescued from Doomdooma

Leopard rescued from Doomdooma. (Sentinel)

Erosion by the Brahmaputra at Pujaghat in Dibrugarh town.

Erosion by the Brahmaputra river washed away around 10 huts at Pujaghat in Dibrugarh town. (Sentinel)

Budding xatriya dancer Srijani Mahanta during her performance in Rabindra Bhavan, Guwahati

Budding xatriya dancer Srijani Mahanta during her performance in Rabindra Bhavan, Guwahati recently. The audience comprised men and women of letters such as acclaimed writer Lakhminandan Bora, intellectual Dr Amarjyoti Choudhury, poet Harekrishna Deka, journalist and author Anuradha Sarma Pujari, veteran playwright Arun Sarma, celebrated eye specialist Dr Harsha Bhatta and many young men and women studying abroad. Srijani was widely appreciated by the audience for her growing expertise on the xatriya dance form. (The Sentinel)

Karimganj bandh (strike)

Karimganj bandh total, women volunteers demand DC’s apology

SILCHAR, July 15: The dawn to dusk Karimganj town bandh called by the joint platform of all political parties barring CPM today was a total success, according to the information from the border town headquarters. The bandh was called, as reported earlier, in protest against the deteriorating law and order across the district which had been rocked by spates of crimes, murders, kidnappings, violence against women, drug trafficking and dacoities, rattling the life of people.

During the last one month, Arup Karmakar, a Barak Valley Cement Company employee, was kidnapped while Pulak Chanda, an auto rickshaw driver and owner, was murdered. Both belonged to the town of Karimganj.

Even as the joint platform was preparing and campaigning for the bandh, a middle aged man identified as Abdul Jalil of Kandigram under Nilambazar police station was murdered in cold blood. Though the police had claimed to have nabbed the prime accused, Abdul Malik. This only reflected on the disturbing trend how criminals and anti social elements were ruling the roost, opined senior citizens.

Quite significantly, on the most critical and crucial issue of law and order and the abject failure of the administration to deal effectively with it, political parties notwithstanding their ideological differences came together, campaigned and picketed jointly. With volunteers on the ground from the early morning, movement of vehicular traffic came to a standstill. The roads wore a deserted look. Schools and colleges, banks, state and central government offices, commercial establishments remained closed.  Long and short distance trains were detained at Karimganj railway station. The bandh campaigners and volunteers kept vigil to ensure total shut down which evoked spontaneous support from all sections of people. Essential services like newspaper, milk and water supply were however kept outside the purview of bandh. The only jarring incident was the heckling of women picketers who were thrown helter–skelter when they tried to block the entry of Deputy Commissioner, Sanjeeb Gohain.

It was alleged that on finding the women squatting and picketing, the Deputy Commissioner escorted by security guards pushed them aside and made his way into the office. This outraged the joint platform and it was declared by women leaders if the Deputy Commissioner did not come out with apology for the ill–treatment of female picketers within 24 hours, the meeting of all political parties convened by him to discus preparations for 15 August would be boycotted.

The joint platform extended its gratitude and thanks to the people for making the 12 hour bandh a success. Congress leaders Ketaki Prasad Dutta, Uttam Mazumdar and Tapash Purkayastha, Mission Ranjan Das and Rathindra Bhattacharjee of BJP, Chandan Chakraborty of CPI, Nazrul Islam Choudhury of AGP, Dewan Abdul Akin Choudhury of AIUDF slammed the district administration for its failure to contain crimes not only in and out of the town but also across the district.  SUCI, VHP and Bajrang Dal which also came out in support of the bandh proposed that the protest should cover the entire district. Besides targeting the district administration, Arunangshu Bhattacharjee of SUCI and Monojit Chakraborty of VHP suggested to intensify the agitation and build up public opinion against the rising crimes in order to force the administration for preemptive and proactive measures.  The joint platform did not spare the minister, MP and 4 MLAs of the district and castigated them for turning a blind eye to the crimes and it was noted with shock and dismay their intriguing silence on the burning issue. It was equally significant that in the larger interest of people, Congress leaders too joined the chorus of protest against their own government at Dispur. The joint platform was now planning for larger agitation involving all the blocks of the district in near future if things did not improve.

Source: http://www.sentinelassam.com