Assam polls: Trouble for Cong over seat sharing arrangement; Former MP Sushmita Dev resigns?

In a big blow to the Congress ahead of Assam assembly polls, former MP and All India Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev has resigned from the party on Saturday. In a shocking turn of events, Dev tendered her resignation to the party leadership over disagreement arising out of seat sharing and awarding of party tickets […]

Meghalaya Cong MLA Azad Zaman passes away at 47

Meghalaya Congress MLA from Rajabala constituency, Azad Zaman passed away in the wee hours of Thursday. He was 47 years old. According to sources, Zaman died of cardiac arrest at around 2:30 am. Tributes poured in as soon as the news of the Congress legislator’s demise broke out. Expressing shock, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma took […]

Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Congress for misrepresenting Assam tea garden in official campaign

Assam Congress had to face yet another burn, as the official campaign page of the party misrepresented a tea garden image from Taiwan and posted the same with the caption “Tea Garden estate workers Assam”. Reacting sharply against the distortion of Assam’s tea garden image, State Health and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma termed the […]

Congress appoints Prithviraj Chavan as chairman of screening panel for Assam polls

The Congress on Monday set up a screening committee for the upcoming Assam Assembly elections and appointed former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan as its chairman. Chavan is a part of the ‘Group of 23’ Congress leaders who had written to party chief Sonia Gandhi demanding an organisational overhaul and internal elections for every post. […]

Priyanka Gandhi begins two-day visit to poll-bound Assam, offers prayers at Kamakhya temple

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is on a 2-day visit to poll-bound Assam, arrived in Guwahati on Monday morning. The AICC general secretary, accompanied by the party’s Assam in-charge Jitendra Singh, was received at the Lokpriyo Gopinath Bordoloi Airport by state unit chief Ripun Bora and other party leaders. After her arrival at the […]

Former BJP ally BPF joins Congress-led alliance before polls in Assam

Ahead of the Assam Assembly elections, the Bodoland Peoples’ Front or BPF on Saturday announced that it was quitting the NDA alliance headed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joining the Congress-led coalition. “To work for Peace, Unity, and Development and to bring a stable government, free from corruption in Assam, the Bodoland Peoples’ Front […]

Congress calls for 12-hour bandh in Tripura

The Congress in Tripura has called for a 12-hour long statewide bandh on Monday. The shutdown has been called as a mark of protest against the attack on state party chief Pijush Kanti Biswas. The attack allegedly took place in front of police at Bisalghar in Sepahijala District on Sunday. A group of miscreants attacked […]

Cong MLA Debabrata Saikia loses leader of opposition status in Assam Assembly

Debabrata Saikia, the Congress legislator from the Nazira constituency has lost the leader of the opposition status in the Assam Legislative Assembly. Assam Assembly speaker Hitendranath Goswami has withdrawn the recognition of Saikia. “The present strength of the Indian National Congress Legislature Party, Assam Legislative Assembly is not equal to the quorum fixed to constitute […]

Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Ripun Bora after former Cong MLAs formally join BJP

As war of words escalates ahead of the Assembly polls in Assam, top BJP and NEDA Convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on State Congress president Ripun Bora after senior Congress leader and three-time Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Ajanta Neog formally joined the BJP. Days after Ripun Bora accused the […]