State EC announces re-polling in 6 stations of Assam

The Biswanath Hakumtha tea garden polling station is all set for re-polling on Friday after chaotic scenes were witnessed in the polling station during Phase-1 polling for Panchayat elections on Wednesday. Scores of angry locals yesterday created a ruckus by entering the polling station, pulling out ballot boxes and setting them on fire obstructing the […]

Man shot by police at polling station in Golaghat, dies in hospital

Former BSF jawan Gyanendra Rajkhowa who was shot at by the police after he injured as many as 4 voters near a polling station in Golaghat, has succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. 4 persons sustained grievous injuries after Gyanendra Rajkhowa attacked them with a machete near a polling station while voting for the […]

First phase of Assam Panchayat polls underway

Voting is underway across 16 administrative districts of Assam, as close to 1 crore people are exercising their franchise in the first phase of panchayat polls today. The electorate are casting votes in a total of 14,077 polling stations across these districts. The voting which started at 7am is slated to continue till 3pm and […]

First phase of Panchayat polls in Assam tomorrow

The stage is all set for the first phase of polling for the Panchayat elections in Assam on December 5. As 16 districts of the state go to polls for Panchayat elections tomorrow, polling officers reached their respective polling stations on Tuesday morning. And as many as, 1799 of the total 14077 polling stations where […]

Campaigning for first phase Panchayat polls ends in Assam; parties carry out intense campaigning across state

Campaigning for Assam’s most politically divided Panchayat polls comes to an end this afternoon with the BJP and its alliance partner Asom Gana Parishad not only battling each other but also engaged in an unprecedented war of words. The opposition Congress and the AIUDF are the two other main political players in the fray but […]

Internal dissension within Dibrugarh Congress ahead of Assam Panchayat elections

Internal dissensions within the Congress party over candidates in the upcoming Assam Panchayat elections is out in the open with the Dibrugarh District Congress Committee expelling 11 of its party workers including Vice-President Nagen Borthakur from primary membership of the party for six years. The step was initiated as a disciplinary action against the workers […]

After AGP, now Cong fields rhino poacher for panchayat polls in Assam

After AGP’s controversial move to give ticket to a convicted poacher, now Congress has raised eyebrows among people by giving party ticket to an alleged poacher in the upcoming Panchayat elections. Dilwar Hussain, arrested twice in connection with poaching of rhinoceros, has been awarded a ticket by the Congress party to contest for the panchayat […]