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  • Jharkhand Assembly Polls: Hemant Soren Files Nomination; Mocks Himanta Biswa, Calls Him A ‘Pravaasi’ CM |

    Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren who had filed his nomination for the upcoming assembly polls took a jibe at Assam CM & Jharkhand BJP co-in-charge of assembly elections Himanta Biswa Sarma by calling him as ‘Pravaasi’ CM who will not be seen in state once the assembly polls are over.

    Interacting with media on Thursday after filing his nomination Soren said, “Today, I have filed my nomination for the assembly election… ‘Pravaasi’ CM (Himanta Biswa Sarma) is here and not only him but all the so-called big leaders of their party are here. They are here for a few days; after that they won’t be found here. They are doing their work, I am doing mine…”

    Chief Minister Hemant Soren will contest from the Barhait Assembly constituency.

    Meanwhile, Kalpana Soren, the JMM leader and wife of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, filed her nomination as her party candidate from Gandey Assembly constituency on Thursday. Kalpana Soren is currently representing the Gandey constituency.

    She had won the constituency in a bypoll held in May this year by beating BJP’s Dilip Kumar Verma by a margin of 27,149 votes. The seat became vacant following the resignation of JMM MLA Sarfaraz Ahmad.

    Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has released its first list of 35 candidates for the upcoming assembly polls in the state which are to be held in two phases on November 13 and 20.

    On the other hand, Himanta Biswa Sarma who was in Jamshedpur as part of the poll campaign attacked the current government and said People will teach this govt (state) a lesson.
    “There is an environment of enthusiasm and excitement among the people. We will win all four seats of Jamshedpur with big margins. People will teach this govt (state) a lesson… NDA will form the govt under the leadership of PM Modi. It’s not my work to estimate the number of seats that we will win, I think we will win 81 seats,” said Himanta.

    The Assembly elections in Jharkhand will be held in two phases on November 13 and November 20 and votes will be counted on November 23.

  • Assam CM Himanta emerges as BJP’s poster boy for election campaigns

    By means of PTI

    GUWAHATI: The BJP’s maximum distinguished face from the North East, Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has emerged because the celebration’s new poster boy for election campaigning, shooting eyeballs as its first-star campaigner from the area in far flung Gujarat and Delhi.

    Be it the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, imposition of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), PFI ban, Ram Janmabhoomi temple factor, communal perspective to the hot killing of a lady through her live-in spouse or the assault on Congress and his bete noire Rahul Gandhi, Sarma has left no stone unturned to push ahead assertively the right-wing celebration’s key schedule in poll-bound Gujarat the place the BJP has dominated for the closing 27 years, barring a short lived length of President’s Rule.

    Sarma, within the eyes of his supporters, after all, comes with the correct credentials for the function.

    The passing of the Farm animals Coverage Act, calling for explicit coverage measures for slowing down minority inhabitants expansion, remaining down of presidency Madrasas and turning them into common faculties, demolition of madrasas following arrest of academics with alleged terror hyperlinks, sealing of the ‘Miya’ (Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam) musuem, amongst others has introduced him to the fore of polarisation politics, in line with professionals.

    The Leader Minister, alternatively, all through his marketing campaign path has hit again with questions like “does an Owaisi (Asaduddin Owaisi) on my own have the correct to polarisation. Do the Hindus no longer have the correct to say their wonderful cultural and civilisational heritage? It’s the media who time period this as polarisation when High Minister Narendra Modi has strived laborious to revive our delight in ‘Sanatan Dharma’ which is the soul of our country”.

    He has additionally disregarded the name of ‘famous person campaigner’ mentioning he’s “no famous person however simply an peculiar ‘karyakarta’ (employee) of the celebration and Gujarat leaders additionally pass to Assam all through elections”.

    Campaigning in Gujarat two times inside every week, Sarma has focussed his assault on his erstwhile celebration – the Congress which he left in 2015 to enroll in the BJP, and in particular on Rahul Gandhi who he alleged used to be extra inquisitive about feeding biscuits to his canine than in fixing celebration’s issues.

    In each and every of his marketing campaign, both in Gujarat or Delhi, he has attacked the Congress for following ”politics of appeasement” for the advantage of a selected group or even went directly to confer with Gandhi comparable to Saddam Hussain because of the beard he has stored all through the continuing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

    Congress chief Kanhaiya Kumar, when requested about Sarma’s steady assault at the Congress and Rahul, stated that he has to ”please his masters for his political survival.

    The BJP accommodations to polarisation politics at a time when the early life and individuals are speaking about unemployment and worth upward thrust”.

    Political analyst Paresh Malakar identified that he highlights problems core to BJP’s communal schedule however added that the feedback can also be construed as ”irresponsible”.

    “Aside from the communal perspective, Sarma is making an attempt to misinform and galvanize,”, Malakar, additionally the Normal Secretary of civil society workforce Assam Nagarik Sabha, instructed PTI.

    Political analyst Chandan Sarma of Dibrugarh College claimed that it’s well-documented that Sarma has been in the back of the good fortune of BJP within the North East and that his stature is expanding within the nationwide area, too, as he ”boldly articulates the core BJP schedule on more than a few problems”.

    Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) Normal Secretary Jagadish Bhuyan instructed PTI that even after being in energy for such a lot of years in Gujarat, “The BJP isn’t speaking about construction however engaged in communal polarization. Sarma can pass to any extent to instigate other folks.”

    Assam Pradesh Congress President Bhupen Bora alternatively instructed PTI that Sarma has been taken to Gujarat to not give speeches however for fund control.

    “The BJP executive within the state has looted finances which the celebration is the usage of for election goal,” Bora alleged.

    The BJP, alternatively, refutes those allegations with its Rajya Sabha MP Pabitra Margherita announcing the campaigning activity recognises Sarma’s talent “to hook up with other folks’s pulse, his sensible and viable commitments and its well timed implementation which has been spotted no longer best within the area but additionally in the remainder of the rustic”.

    But even so, BJP encourages and empowers “new era politicians and offers house to younger leaders running for the country’s construction along side keeping ideological ethos,” Margherita stated.

    GUWAHATI: The BJP’s maximum distinguished face from the North East, Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has emerged because the celebration’s new poster boy for election campaigning, shooting eyeballs as its first-star campaigner from the area in far flung Gujarat and Delhi.

    Be it the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, imposition of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), PFI ban, Ram Janmabhoomi temple factor, communal perspective to the hot killing of a lady through her live-in spouse or the assault on Congress and his bete noire Rahul Gandhi, Sarma has left no stone unturned to push ahead assertively the right-wing celebration’s key schedule in poll-bound Gujarat the place the BJP has dominated for the closing 27 years, barring a short lived length of President’s Rule.

    Sarma, within the eyes of his supporters, after all, comes with the correct credentials for the function.

    The passing of the Farm animals Coverage Act, calling for explicit coverage measures for slowing down minority inhabitants expansion, remaining down of presidency Madrasas and turning them into common faculties, demolition of madrasas following arrest of academics with alleged terror hyperlinks, sealing of the ‘Miya’ (Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam) musuem, amongst others has introduced him to the fore of polarisation politics, in line with professionals.

    The Leader Minister, alternatively, all through his marketing campaign path has hit again with questions like “does an Owaisi (Asaduddin Owaisi) on my own have the correct to polarisation. Do the Hindus no longer have the correct to say their wonderful cultural and civilisational heritage? It’s the media who time period this as polarisation when High Minister Narendra Modi has strived laborious to revive our delight in ‘Sanatan Dharma’ which is the soul of our country”.

    He has additionally disregarded the name of ‘famous person campaigner’ mentioning he’s “no famous person however simply an peculiar ‘karyakarta’ (employee) of the celebration and Gujarat leaders additionally pass to Assam all through elections”.

    Campaigning in Gujarat two times inside every week, Sarma has focussed his assault on his erstwhile celebration – the Congress which he left in 2015 to enroll in the BJP, and in particular on Rahul Gandhi who he alleged used to be extra inquisitive about feeding biscuits to his canine than in fixing celebration’s issues.

    In each and every of his marketing campaign, both in Gujarat or Delhi, he has attacked the Congress for following ”politics of appeasement” for the advantage of a selected group or even went directly to confer with Gandhi comparable to Saddam Hussain because of the beard he has stored all through the continuing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

    Congress chief Kanhaiya Kumar, when requested about Sarma’s steady assault at the Congress and Rahul, stated that he has to ”please his masters for his political survival.

    The BJP accommodations to polarisation politics at a time when the early life and individuals are speaking about unemployment and worth upward thrust”.

    Political analyst Paresh Malakar identified that he highlights problems core to BJP’s communal schedule however added that the feedback can also be construed as ”irresponsible”.

    “Aside from the communal perspective, Sarma is making an attempt to misinform and galvanize,”, Malakar, additionally the Normal Secretary of civil society workforce Assam Nagarik Sabha, instructed PTI.

    Political analyst Chandan Sarma of Dibrugarh College claimed that it’s well-documented that Sarma has been in the back of the good fortune of BJP within the North East and that his stature is expanding within the nationwide area, too, as he ”boldly articulates the core BJP schedule on more than a few problems”.

    Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) Normal Secretary Jagadish Bhuyan instructed PTI that even after being in energy for such a lot of years in Gujarat, “The BJP isn’t speaking about construction however engaged in communal polarization. Sarma can pass to any extent to instigate other folks.”

    Assam Pradesh Congress President Bhupen Bora alternatively instructed PTI that Sarma has been taken to Gujarat to not give speeches however for fund control.

    “The BJP executive within the state has looted finances which the celebration is the usage of for election goal,” Bora alleged.

    The BJP, alternatively, refutes those allegations with its Rajya Sabha MP Pabitra Margherita announcing the campaigning activity recognises Sarma’s talent “to hook up with other folks’s pulse, his sensible and viable commitments and its well timed implementation which has been spotted no longer best within the area but additionally in the remainder of the rustic”.

    But even so, BJP encourages and empowers “new era politicians and offers house to younger leaders running for the country’s construction along side keeping ideological ethos,” Margherita stated.

  • Assam CM phrases FIR via J’khand MLA ‘faux’; minister stocks Himanta-Jaimangal pictures on Twitter

    By means of Categorical Information Carrier

    GUWAHATI: Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday termed the “FIR” lodged via Jharkhand Congress MLA Kumar Jaimangal Singh as “faux”.

    “Faux FIR in #Jharkhand. The so-called FIR looks as if @INCIndia asking Ottavio Quattrocchi to record a case in opposition to Bofors,” he tweeted, reacting to his ministerial colleague Pijush Hazarika’s remark.

    Taking to Twitter, Hazarika shared some images, appearing Sarma and Singh in combination, purportedly in Delhi. The pictures counsel the 2 are not any strangers to one another.

    “Sharing some FACTS concerning the baseless allegations via Jharkhand @INCIndia MLA @KumarJaimangal. Jharkhand Cong MLA @KumarJaimangal made a pretend allegation that the three arrested MLAs had lured him to satisfy Hon’ble CM Dr.@himantabiswa sir,” he wrote at the microblogging web site.

    He claimed Sarma had taken Singh to the place of abode of Union Coal Minister Prahlad Joshi on July 26 at 9 am – 5 days ahead of the Jharkhand MLA had filed the “fabricated FIR” with the police – so as to assist him in his industry union-related topic.

    Hazarika claimed Singh have been frequently assembly the Assam CM.

    “He will have to face the legislation for creating a fraudulent allegation in opposition to Hon’ble Leader Minister of Assam and in opposition to the ones tribal MLAs,” Hazarika tweeted.

    In his grievance, Singh had claimed the 3 Jharkhand Congress MLAs arrested in West Bengal had requested him to sign up for them and meet Sarma in combination in Guwahati. He had alleged the trio lured him with money and ministerial berth and sought his give a boost to to tug down the JMM-Congress govt in Jharkhand.

    After his title were given entangled within the Jharkhand politics, the Assam CM had on Sunday stated he had no thought why Singh needed to record the police grievance.

    “The Congress MLAs and leaders meet me in Guwahati and Delhi. What’s incorrect in that? Congress is my previous birthday celebration,” he had stated, including, “I’ve recognized the individual, who lodged the FIR, for twenty years. So, he doesn’t desire a intermediary to come back to me.”

    GUWAHATI: Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday termed the “FIR” lodged via Jharkhand Congress MLA Kumar Jaimangal Singh as “faux”.

    “Faux FIR in #Jharkhand. The so-called FIR looks as if @INCIndia asking Ottavio Quattrocchi to record a case in opposition to Bofors,” he tweeted, reacting to his ministerial colleague Pijush Hazarika’s remark.

    Taking to Twitter, Hazarika shared some images, appearing Sarma and Singh in combination, purportedly in Delhi. The pictures counsel the 2 are not any strangers to one another.

    “Sharing some FACTS concerning the baseless allegations via Jharkhand @INCIndia MLA @KumarJaimangal. Jharkhand Cong MLA @KumarJaimangal made a pretend allegation that the three arrested MLAs had lured him to satisfy Hon’ble CM Dr.@himantabiswa sir,” he wrote at the microblogging web site.

    He claimed Sarma had taken Singh to the place of abode of Union Coal Minister Prahlad Joshi on July 26 at 9 am – 5 days ahead of the Jharkhand MLA had filed the “fabricated FIR” with the police – so as to assist him in his industry union-related topic.

    Hazarika claimed Singh have been frequently assembly the Assam CM.

    “He will have to face the legislation for creating a fraudulent allegation in opposition to Hon’ble Leader Minister of Assam and in opposition to the ones tribal MLAs,” Hazarika tweeted.

    In his grievance, Singh had claimed the 3 Jharkhand Congress MLAs arrested in West Bengal had requested him to sign up for them and meet Sarma in combination in Guwahati. He had alleged the trio lured him with money and ministerial berth and sought his give a boost to to tug down the JMM-Congress govt in Jharkhand.

    After his title were given entangled within the Jharkhand politics, the Assam CM had on Sunday stated he had no thought why Singh needed to record the police grievance.

    “The Congress MLAs and leaders meet me in Guwahati and Delhi. What’s incorrect in that? Congress is my previous birthday celebration,” he had stated, including, “I’ve recognized the individual, who lodged the FIR, for twenty years. So, he doesn’t desire a intermediary to come back to me.”

  • Assam CM Himanta’s spouse recordsdata Rs 100 crore defamation swimsuit in opposition to Manish Sisodia

    By means of PTI

    GUWAHATI: Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, the spouse of Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, has filed a Rs 100 crore defamation swimsuit in opposition to Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia, who had alleged malpractice in giving contracts for PPE at above-market charges.

    Bhuyan Sarma filed the swimsuit on the court docket of Civil Pass judgement on Number one of Kamrup Metropolitan district on Tuesday and it’s prone to arise for listening to on Wednesday, her suggest Padmadhar Nayak stated.

    Some other suggest Kishor Kumar Dutta advised PTI that Sisodia whilst addressing a press meet on June 4 in New Delhi had made “some allegations that broken the recognition and place” of Riniki Bhuyan Sarma.

    “Sisodia unnecessarily dragged the identify of Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma additionally into the debate. Because of this we’ve claimed that harm,” he added.

    Sisodia, regarding media reviews had advised newsmen that whilst the Assam govt procured non-public protecting apparatus kits for Rs 600 every from different corporations, Sarma gave pressing provide orders to the corporations of his spouse and son’s industry companions for Rs 990 apiece.

    The opposition Congress, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML)-Liberation, RCPI, TMC, Raijor Dal, Assam Jatiya Parishad and Anchalik Gana Morcha have demanded a CBI probe into the alleged corruption.

    On June 1 virtual media organisations – New Delhi-based ‘The Twine’ and Guwahati-based ‘The Crosscurrent’ had in a joint investigative document claimed that the Assam govt had positioned 4 COVID-19-related emergency scientific provide orders, possibly with out following correct procedure.

    Bringing up a chain of Proper to Knowledge replies, the medial portals claimed that the entire 4 orders, positioned between March 18 and March 23 of 2020, have been bagged via 3 corporations owned via Riniki Bhuyan Sarma and the circle of relatives’s industry affiliate Ghanshyam Dhanuka.

    In a tweet, she had refuted any wrongdoing within the provide of PPE kits to Nationwide Well being Undertaking and stated she didn’t take a “unmarried penny” for them.

    The prevailing Assam govt and Sarma have one by one denied all fees that the executive minister’s circle of relatives was once concerned within the alleged malpractices and termed the allegations via the 2 virtual media as “false, imaginary, malicious and of vested pursuits”.

    Sarma was once the well being and circle of relatives welfare minister in 2020 all the way through the primary BJP-led state govt.

  • Assam CM Himanta credit PM Modi with fixing bandh, blockade drawback in Manipur

    Via Categorical Information Carrier

    IMPHAL: Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday credited Top Minister Narendra Modi with fixing the perennial drawback of bandhs and blockades in Manipur.

    Talking on the “flag-hoisting” rite of senior Manipur Minister Thongam Biswajit, Sarma mentioned the folks of Manipur had suffered so much previous to 2017 because of bandhs and blockades.

    “We had doubts if we’d be able to remedy the issue. However PM Modiji was once assured. He mentioned it’s conceivable. Quickly, it was a truth. Bandhs and blockades are actually a factor of the previous,” Sarma mentioned. He mentioned the former Congress executive can have solved the issue however it didn’t.

    “Modiji constructed a countrywide freeway that connects Manipur with Assam’s Silchar. Now, the state has two highways to deliver items to the state. Biswajit was once the PWD minister. Underneath him, many roads and bridges had been constructed,” the Assam CM mentioned.

    He mentioned forward of the 2017 Manipur polls, the BJP may just now not consider it would shape the federal government within the state however Biswajit may just visualise it. “He got here from the TMC to the BJP and contributed immensely to the birthday celebration’s huge enlargement in Manipur. Everyone knows this and we will have to recognize it,” Sarma mentioned.

    He added, “When he was once becoming a member of the BJP in 2016, I used to suppose why he’s taking this sort of large possibility. He mentioned the BJP has come to Assam. We can paintings exhausting in combination to deliver BJP to energy in Manipur. All of us have nowadays change into the enthusiasts of Biswajit.”

    Nagaland Deputy Leader Minister Y Patton, Nagaland Minister and BJP leader Temjen Imna Alongside Longkumer have been amongst a number of BJP leaders who have been provide on the programme.

    Via hoisting birthday celebration flags, applicants of elections in Manipur formally release their election marketing campaign.

  • Assam CM to scale back safety entourage by means of 50 %, PSOs of politicians to be lower vastly

    By way of IANS

    GUWAHATI: Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated on Saturday that his safety entourage could be diminished by means of 50 in line with cent and the private safety officials (PSOs) of many politicians, officers and others would even be diminished by means of part to minimise executive expenditure.

    The Leader Minister stated that over 4,240 PSOs are actually being posted with the politicians, in-service and retired officers, businessmen, surrendered militants, tea property house owners and others.

    In keeping with Sarma, who additionally holds the house portfolio, of the 4,240 PSOs, 2,526 PSOs are deployed with the politicians of various events, 854 with in-service and retired civil officers and 546 with judicial officials.

    “Now we have shaped a safety overview committee to inspect the need of PSOs for various individuals. We need to cut back the selection of PSOs by means of part. Excluding the ones other people conserving constitutional posts, PSOs for others could be diminished vastly,” the Leader Minister advised the media after the New Yr’s first Cupboard assembly.

    Noting that the Assam executive has been spending round Rs 400 crore annually to offer PSOs to the politicians, officers and others, Sarma stated that lately there are round 22 cars in his safety entourage which might be diminished by means of seven to 8 quickly.

    “PSOs must no longer be the standing image… It is going to be in response to the need of the individual involved,” he stated.

    Sarma had lately courted an argument by means of pronouncing that PSOs are a “Congress tradition”.

    Slamming the Leader Minister over his “the PSO machine is a Congress tradition” observation, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President Bhupen Kumar Borah and Congress’ Rajya Sabha member Ripun Bora had requested the Leader Minister to give up his massive safety duvet.

    “Sarma groomed himself within the Congress for plenty of, a few years, constructed his whole political profession, after which converted to the BJP and turned into the CM. Now he has develop into allergic to the Congress tradition,” Bora had advised a tv channel.

    Sarma had previous steered BJP leaders and celebration functionaries to surrender their PSOs.

    “There is not any want for PSOs. We would not have any risk to existence as now we have executed not anything fallacious,” the Leader Minister had stated at a serve as in Guwahati.