Assam Assembly Elections 2016
Campaigning ends in Assam, Bengal readies for voting on 31 seatsThe high-decibel campaign ended on Saturday in Assam where BJP is locked in a riveting contest to wrest power from Congress, with remaining 61 constituencies going to polls on April 11 in the final - Face of young Assam once, Mahanta bets on BJP in comeback bid
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He then went on to greet people on the eve of Assamese new year, celebrated as Bohag Bihu. - Jan Dhan Yojana will check chit funds: PM Modi
Raising Saradha scam issue for the first time in Assam poll campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that Jan Dhan Yojana has been launched to ensure that such fraud did not take place in - High alert sounded across Assam, security tightened
Following the Dudhnoi blast on April 4, which killed three persons, security forces have launched a massive counter-insurgency operation in the area. - Gauhati E hopes to tide over water woes
The problems that plague residents in the urban constituency of Gauhati East are both water-related. - Lack of tie-up with Left may split secular votes: Gogoi
The 79-year-old Congress veteran feels his party and the Left should have formed an alliance before the polls to defeat the BJP. - LDP dances its way to voters' hearts
LDP, led by former BJP national executive member and ex-IT cell national convener of the saffron party Prodyut Bora, is making all possible efforts to attract new voters.It will be crucial for Bora - PM talks of peace on foreign soil, silent in country, says Sonia
Commenting on the PM's foreign trips, Sonia said, "Modi embraces everyone and talks big about the country when he is abroad. In the second phase of assembly election, the oldest contender running in the election is all set to take on the youngest. - PM behaving like an RSS pracharak: Raj Babbar
Congress leader and popular Bollywood actor Raj Babbar on Thursday said if BJP comes to power in Assam, it will be a government that follows the ideology of Nathuram Godse, who had assassinated - 'Secular politics' behind backwardness of Muslims: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Addressing election meetings at Bilasipara, Mankachar and Golakganj in Assam, Naqvi said the increase in percentage of Muslims living below poverty line during last few decades in states like Assam - 'Will quit politics if proved I have sheltered migrants'
At a time when a nationwide row over 'Bharat mata ki jai' is on, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday mocked BJP and RSS by saying that they are more concerned about the people of 'Bharat'. Covering the areas from the LGBI Airport to the long-neglected villages on the Assam Meghalaya border, the Gauhati West constituency has a mix of urban and rural voters. - 'High turnout shows people voted for change'
Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said the increased polling percentage in the first phase indicated people's willingness for change in Assam. - Working with Rahul was a waste of time: Himanta Biswa Sarma
CM Tarun Gogoi’s former blue-eyed boy Himanta Biswa Sarma is now Assam BJP’s election convener. He tells TOI he hasn’t asked anything from the party. Excerpts... - I want to live and fight elections in Assam: Rakhi
Bollywood starlet and Republican Party of India-Athawale (RPI-A) leader Rakhi Sawant has expressed her desire to settle down in Assam and contest elections from here. Gauhati East, one of the most important constituencies in the state with 100% urban voters, will see a tough fight between former state BJP president Siddhartha Bhattacharya and TV star Bobbeeta All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has fielded the highest number of candidates with pending criminal cases against them in the second phase of polls on April 11. Bela and her friends were happy to dance at a rally and earn a few extra bucks in Goalpara district's Rangjuli area on Saturday. Her happiness, however, was short-lived as her role in the poll process At 7.30am on Monday, Sabita Das came to the Mahadevpur Lower Primary School polling booth along with her family to cast her vote.For her, it was a little more complicated than the simple right to As has been the case in every election, tea garden voters are going to play a key role in determining the outcome of several seats in upper Assam and the Barak Valley. On Monday morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, "Urging all those voting in West Bengal & Assam today to vote in large numbers. Elections mean little to the victims of 2014 militant attacks, languishing in the refugee camps in Baksa district for the past two years.They say none of the political parties care for them. Ulfa-I leader Paresh Baruah's home constituency Chabua in upper Assam saw the highest turnout among all 65 constituencies that voted in the first phase of polls on Monday.
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