The Congress party on Wednesday alleged Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of helping his wife's firm to get a subsidy of Rs 10 crore from the central government.
As soon as the Assam government formed a committee to draft appropriate legislation for banning Polygamy and other related issues, AIUDF MLA Aminul Islam on Wednesday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is doing this only to do politics ahead of ensuing Lok Sabha elections.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad Sangma on Wednesday met in Shillong and discussed various issues including Assam-Meghalaya border dispute issue.
Countering his charge, the Assam CM replied that neither his wife nor his wife's company has ever received any financial subsidies from the food ministry. "I would like to clarify that neither my wife nor the company she is associated with has ever received any financial subsidies from the G
"The kind of eviction taking place all over Assam is happening on inhuman grounds... The CM assured us that it would take time but we would give them land and a house... We hope he will do as he has said...," AIUDF leader Badruddin Ajmal said.
The Assam government on Monday said that the security forces have arrested 390 persons in the state in the last 2 years and 5 months for association or linkage with anti-national or extremist activities.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma unveiled the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the premises of the new building of the Assam Legislative Assembly, in Guwahati on Monday.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday accused Gandhi family of "working on breaking the country" and urged Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to "give away Gandhi title".
Amid efforts by the Opposition bloc — INDIA — to unseat the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from power at the Centre in next year's Lok Sabha elections, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday took a dig at the Congress saying it should give up its forming the governmen