Assam Assembly Elections 2016
Assamese people to get due rights if illegal migrants are driven out, says SonowalChief Minister-designate Sarbananda Sonowal today said that Assamese people will get their due rights when illegal migrants are identified and driven out of the state. He also claimed that - Sarbananda Sonowal requests Gogoi to attend his swearing-in ceremony
Sonowal visited Gogoi at his official residence on Sunday and invited him to the oath-taking function to be held at Khanapara field. A host of dignitaries, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and - Stunned, Ajmal grapples with loss
Mission accomplished, big brother of the alliance, BJP, now faces the daunting task of doing the balancing act in the ministry formation. - BJP mulls senior AGP leaders' roles in Assam
With the polls done and dusted, the next big question doing the rounds is how BJP will accommodate top Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leaders like Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and Brindaban Goswami who are senior - Leading the charge of the Right brigade...in Assam
The name of Sarbananda Sonowal, BJP's CM candidate for the Assam assembly election, lends itself well to catchy slogans. - Come what may, I will never join hands with AIUDF: Tarun Gogoi
Gogoi's entry into Dispur, Assam's seat of power, in 2001 was as dramatic as the way he went out of it.He had then demolished Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in a similar fashion.At that time, BJP was AGP's - BJP's demolition man brings down former mentor
It was case of sweet revenge for Himanta Biswa Sarma.This 47-year-old leader, once outgoing CM Tarun Gogoi's blue-eyed boy, played a key role in bringing down his former mentor who ruled Assam for 15 - Barak Valley throws up BJP's lone Muslim winner
Animul Haque Laskar has the distinction of being the sole Muslim winner from BJP.He won from Sonai in the Bengali-dominated Barak Valley. - BJP is secular, says its sole Muslim victor
Aminul Haque Laskar, BJP's only Muslim winner in Assam, said on Thursday that voters cutting across community lines supported him and it was a mandate for development. - Warhorse CM Tarun Gogoi unsaddled, but not down
When Tarun Gogoi called Narendra Modi "a Mughal trying to invade Assam" at the height of the campaign, little did he realise that he could not fight like his hero Lachit Borphukan, the great - Mahanta leads comeback pack in Cong exit poll
The assembly poll results marked the return of Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and other satraps from years in political wilderness. - How Cong's master strategist becomes BJP's master stroke
It was a case of sweet revenge for Himanta Biswa Sarma, who played a key role in ending former mentor Tarun Gogoi's 15-year rule. - Meet the man who sent a three-time CM Gogoing
First elected to the assembly in 2001, Sarbananda Sonowal took centrestage in 2005 when he won a case in the Supreme Court against the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983. - BJP ends Cong's 15-year tea party
The victory, which comes after two major debacles in Delhi and Bihar, will allow the saffron party to govern a state that has the country's second-highest Muslim population after Jammu & Kashmir. - A Cong'less' India, almost: BJP emerges as a truly national party, satraps' stock soars
- Bihar now history, Shah is again man of the moment
Two years after micro-managing BJP strategy for its thumping win in UP in Lok Sabha elections, Amit Shah is the 'Man of the Moment' again.Verdict 2016 has added another feather to the cap of the BJP - 'We consolidated votes over threat to Assam identity'
JP general secretary Ram Madhav, who oversaw the party's successful campaign in Jammu, has struck gold again. to the controversial 'secret killings' in the state, defeated Congress minister Pradyut Bordoloi in Margherita by a margin of over 22,000 votes. - The number cruncher behind winning Assam formula
His mentor was BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, an old RSS hand who had been assigned the organisational charge of Assam and had known Sethi for some time. - Perfume baron who eyed kingmaker's role fails to win his seat
After the assembly polls, Ajmal had asserted that no party would be able to form the next government without All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF)'s help. - BJP savours Assam tea, eyes a bigger cup
- We are in it for ideological reasons: BJP poll strategists
- BJP scripts history, unseats Congress in Assam
The BJP on Thursday was set to form its first government in the northeast, ousting the Congress in Assam after its 15-year uninterrupted rule. BJP chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal - Maharashtra CM lauds PM Modi, Shah for 'historic win' in Assam
"Heartiest congratulations to Modi ji and Shah ji for the historic and grand win in Assam," Fadnavis tweeted. He also congratulated Mamata Banerjee and Jayalalithaa for their victories in West Bengal
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