It is BJP’s failures vs Congress’ guarantees in Assam
3 years, 9 months ago

It is BJP’s failures vs Congress’ guarantees in Assam

The Hindu  

THE issues of raised by the Congress-led eight-party alliance of opposition parties—such as such as unemployment and price rise—have become the talking points in Assam, heightening the level of discomfort for the Bharatiya Janata Party -led ruling alliance ahead of the three-phase Assembly election beginning March 27. The Congress has accused the BJP of going back on its electoral promises made in 2016 with regard to unemployment, price rise and wages of tea garden workers. BJP’s polarisation attempt Fearing that the unemployment crisis and price rise may make its constituency among youths and other sections shift its electoral preference to opposition parties, the ruling alliance is leaving no stone unturned to push the narrative around “infiltration of Bangladeshis” to overshadow the opposition campaign. It is, therefore, pinning its hopes on the promise of welfare measures for tea garden workers and harping on the Congress’ alliance with the AIUDF to stymie the opposition’s campaign against the CAA. The Congress’ guarantee to increase the daily wages of tea garden workers and its heightened campaign that the BJP went back on its 2016 promise of increasing the daily wage to Rs.351 prompted the Sonowal government to rush to approve in its last Cabinet meeting an increase in the daily wage by Rs.50.

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says Congress now a ‘completely’ Muslim party in Assam
7 months, 1 week ago

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says Congress now a ‘completely’ Muslim party in Assam

The Hindu  

The Lok Sabha election in Assam over three phases saw the Muslims swing from the All India United Democratic Front to the Congress, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Saying that the Congress has “completely” become a Muslim party, he said the party’s vote share did not increase at the cost of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mr. Sarma said the …

Congress seeks to make most of BJP’s failure in keeping Assam ST status promise
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Congress seeks to make most of BJP’s failure in keeping Assam ST status promise

Hindustan Times  

In the run-up to the 2014 polls, Narendra Modi, who was then the Bharatiya Janata Party ’s prime ministerial candidate, met representatives of Assam’s Tai Ahoms, Tea Tribes, Morans, Muttocks, Sooteas, and Koch-Rajbongshis in Guwahati and backed their demand for Scheduled Tribe status to these communities. Congress leader Pawan Singh Ghatowar, who belongs to a tea tribe, said there is …

BJP aims to retain LS seat in tea belts of Alipurduar; TMC hopes for turnaround
9 months ago

BJP aims to retain LS seat in tea belts of Alipurduar; TMC hopes for turnaround

Hindustan Times  

Kalchini: It was mid-day and the one-hour lunch break had just ended at the Malangi Tea Garden in West Bengal’s northern part’s Alipurduar district. Even though the BJP has made inroads in the tea-belt in 2019, the Mamata Banerjee-led government has left no stone unturned to woo the people of this belt in the last five years,” said Gopal Oraon, …

4 MLAs from Congress, NPP join the BJP in Arunachal Pradesh
10 months, 3 weeks ago

4 MLAs from Congress, NPP join the BJP in Arunachal Pradesh

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI Ahead of the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, two MLAs each from Congress and the National People’s Party joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday. Headed by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma, the NPP is an ally of the BJP in Arunachal Pradesh. The event was attended by Assam’s Irrigation Minister and the …

Assembly polls in five states: What's at stake for BJP?
1 year, 3 months ago

Assembly polls in five states: What's at stake for BJP?

India Today  

With the Election Commission blowing the assembly poll bugle for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram, the stage is set for a high-octane campaign by the BJP as performance in these crucial contests could make or break its fortunes in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. In 2018, when the BJP lost power in Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh, it was …

Assam CM distributes ₹12.96 crore compensation to Doloo tea garden workers
2 years, 1 month ago

Assam CM distributes ₹12.96 crore compensation to Doloo tea garden workers

Hindustan Times  

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday distributed ₹100,000 each to 1,296 families living in the Doloo tea garden in Cachar district as gratitude for supporting the government in acquiring land for a proposed Greenfield airport. Assam CM distributes ₹ 12.96 crore compensation to Doloo tea garden workers The state government acquired over 325 hectares of land from the …

Assam small tea growers resent hike in workers’ wages
2 years, 4 months ago

Assam small tea growers resent hike in workers’ wages

The Hindu  

Small tea growers in Assam have resented the State government’s “unilateral” decision to increase the daily wage of plantation workers across gardens big and small to ₹232. The All Assam Small Tea Growers’ Association said equating them with large gardens was an injustice on the part of the government. Government not extending subsidies: team growers’ body Assam has about 1.22 …

Independence Day Gift to Tea Workers, Assam Govt Hikes Daily Wages by Rs 27
2 years, 5 months ago

Independence Day Gift to Tea Workers, Assam Govt Hikes Daily Wages by Rs 27

News 18  

In a good news for around 10 lakhs tea garden workers of Assam ahead of the Independence Day, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government on Wednesday decided to increase their daily wages by Rs 27. In a meeting with tea garden managements and workers’ union, it was decided to increase their daily wage by ₹27 over and above ration and …

Assam hikes daily wages of tea garden workers by ₹27
2 years, 5 months ago

Assam hikes daily wages of tea garden workers by ₹27

The Hindu  

The daily wages of tea garden workers in Assam were hiked by ₹27, the second increase in such payments since the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government came to power in the State in May last year, an official said on August 9. Mr. Sarma said welfare of tea garden workers has always been his government's top priority. He said the cash …

Congress secures AIUDF’s support for Assam RS seat after poll debacle
2 years, 9 months ago

Congress secures AIUDF’s support for Assam RS seat after poll debacle

Hindustan Times  

The Congress party, which is set to lose seven seats in the Rajya Sabha this year, has secured the support of Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front for one of the two Upper House seats in Assam that will be up for grabs in the biennial polls in April. Congress’s strength in the House is set to shrink to …

Promises galore as parties release manifestoes ahead of UP Assembly polls
2 years, 11 months ago

Promises galore as parties release manifestoes ahead of UP Assembly polls

India Today  

It’s raining promises to woo voters ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, with political parties pledging free power to farmers, lakhs of jobs, smartphones and laptops if voted to power. READ: 'Insignificant' Congress's influence on BJP and SP's UP poll manifesto | Opinion Their poll promises have a lot of things for farmers, youth, women and other sections of …

BJP, allies confident of by-poll win in northeastern States
3 years, 3 months ago

BJP, allies confident of by-poll win in northeastern States

The Hindu  

The BJP and its strategic regional allies in the Northeast are confident of winning most of the 10 Assembly seats, where by-elections have been scheduled on October 30. BJP’s Assam unit president Bhabesh Kalita is upbeat about the party and one of its regional allies sweeping the five seats. The BJP would contest the Bhabanipur, Gossaigaon, Mariani and Thowrah seats, …

Tea Workers Remain Loyal to BJP, Minorities to Congr-AIUDF in Assam Polls
3 years, 8 months ago

Tea Workers Remain Loyal to BJP, Minorities to Congr-AIUDF in Assam Polls

News 18  

Tea garden workers and minorities, the two dominant vote banks in Assam have remained loyal to the BJP-led alliance and Congress-AIUDF respectively in the 2021 assembly polls. A snubbed Congress had made all-out effort to regain its lost ground this time with its election campaign focusing on increasing the daily wages of tea garden workers to Rs 365 from the …

Assam election: Now BPF shifts candidates to Goa, Sikkim on 'vacation'
3 years, 9 months ago

Assam election: Now BPF shifts candidates to Goa, Sikkim on 'vacation'

India Today  

Days after the Congress and the All India United Democratic Front shifted their candidates outside Assam fearing horse-trading, now the Bodoland People's Front has followed suit. The BPF, which severed ties with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the run up to the Assam Assembly polls, shifted five-six candidates to Goa and Sikkim for "vacation". BPF senior leader Khampa Borgoyari …

Congress Will Win 101 Seats to Form Govt in Assam, Asserts Randeep Surjewala
3 years, 9 months ago

Congress Will Win 101 Seats to Form Govt in Assam, Asserts Randeep Surjewala

News 18  

By securing 101 seats in the 126-member Assam Assembly, the Congress-led ‘Mahajot’ would form the government on May 5 and in the first session of the Vidhan Sabha, it would initiate the process of implementing its ‘five guarantees’ for the state, AICC General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala claimed here on Friday. Surjewala said that after the first two phases of …

Can BJP survive the demographic disadvantage in Assam?
3 years, 9 months ago

Can BJP survive the demographic disadvantage in Assam?

India Today  

On March 27, 47 constituencies in Upper Assam, the northern bank of Brahmaputra and middle of Assam went to polls in the first phase of the assembly election. With the Congress-led alliance of eight parties having a demographic advantage in the 79 seats going to polls in the second and third phases, a superlative performance by this grand alliance can, …

Congress moves EC over advert disguised as news story claiming BJP victory in Assam
3 years, 9 months ago

Congress moves EC over advert disguised as news story claiming BJP victory in Assam

India Today  

Congress in Assam has filed a complaint with the Election Commission seeking action after a BJP “The provocation is a gross violation today in all the Assam papers, a front-page misleading @ECISVEEP Just look at these newspapers from assam there is a common AD from BJP in the top written as "BJP TO WIN ALL CONSTITUENCIES OF UPPER ASSAM" we …

Assam Election: First Phase of Polling Could Decide Final Result
3 years, 9 months ago

Assam Election: First Phase of Polling Could Decide Final Result

The Quint  

Upper and North Assam has a comparatively lower population of Bengali-speaking voters and a higher concentration of ethnic Assamese voters, tea tribes and plain tribes like Misings and Sonowal Cacharis. But the BJP government's failure to fulfill its promise of providing Rs 351 per day wage to tea garden workers has left many dissatisfied. Three of the Congress' most prominent …

Spotlight on Assam's tea garden districts as first phase of campaigning ends; Opposition bets on CAA, BJP offers NRC correction
3 years, 9 months ago

Spotlight on Assam's tea garden districts as first phase of campaigning ends; Opposition bets on CAA, BJP offers NRC correction

Firstpost  

A total of 47 seats will go to polls on 27 March, which will decide the fate of 264 candidates, including Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Congress’ Debabrata Saikia and Ripun Bora, jailed anti-CAA activist Akhil Gogoi and Assam Jatiya Parishad president Lurinjyoti Gogoi The high-pitched campaign for the first phase of the Assam election ended on Thursday with polling set …

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Political parties in Assam go all out to woo tea garden workers
3 years, 9 months ago

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Political parties in Assam go all out to woo tea garden workers

The Hindu  

Assam's tea garden workers are being wooed by political parties of all shades with promises of sops galore, as they comprise a hefty share of the State's electorate. Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made particular efforts to woo the community with both visiting tea gardens and enjoying a cups of tea and lunch with tea garden worke₹The …

Assam Assembly election: Congress-AIUDF Mahajoth is 'mahajooth', says Narendra Modi
3 years, 9 months ago

Assam Assembly election: Congress-AIUDF Mahajoth is 'mahajooth', says Narendra Modi

Firstpost  

Bihpuria/Sipajhar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called upon the people of Assam to beware of the Congress-AIUDF ‘Mahajoth’ as it is a ‘Mahajhoot’. “I have come to awaken you to the fact that Congress’s hand is with those forces that are a danger to the state’s identity and culture,” Modi said. “With the people’s increasing trust in the BJP …

Assam Assembly polls | Pay revised wages to workers, Himanta tells tea companies
3 years, 9 months ago

Assam Assembly polls | Pay revised wages to workers, Himanta tells tea companies

The Hindu  

Assam Finance Minister and BJP’s chief poll strategist Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday warned tea estate owners to pay daily wages to their workers at the revised rate or face the music. We revised it to ₹217 but a few tea garden owners went to the High Court against the revision in connivance with the Congress,” he told a crowd …

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Leaflet seeks answers from BJP in Assam tea gardens
3 years, 9 months ago

Assam Assembly Elections 2021 | Leaflet seeks answers from BJP in Assam tea gardens

The Hindu  

Has the BJP given you Scheduled Tribe status? The only reason that the questions are aimed at the BJP is that the party has been in power for five years along with its associates and the tea workers largely voted for them for the promised ‘parivartan’ and ‘achche din’,” AAASA president Stephen Lakra told The Hindu on Wednesday. “The idea …

No wage hike in Assam tea gardens for now, says Gauhati High Court
3 years, 9 months ago

No wage hike in Assam tea gardens for now, says Gauhati High Court

The Hindu  

The Gauhati High Court has given tea estate owners in Assam the “liberty” to decide if they want to follow the State government’s order on increasing the daily wages of plantation workers by ₹50. Hearing a petition of the Indian Tea Association and 17 tea companies for staying the wage hike, Justice Michael Zothankhuma on March 16 said the interim …

Top news of the day: PM’s photo removed from COVID-19 vaccine certificates in poll-bound States; ADR report says 44% of MLAs who switched parties joined BJP, and more
3 years, 10 months ago

Top news of the day: PM’s photo removed from COVID-19 vaccine certificates in poll-bound States; ADR report says 44% of MLAs who switched parties joined BJP, and more

The Hindu  

The Election Commission of India had taken up the issue after the Trinamool Congress complained that the Prime Minister’s photo on the certificates in poll-bound States was a violation of the Model Code of Conduct. West Bengal Assembly elections | Mamata hopes to return to ‘her field in next 2 or 3 days’ Preliminary medical tests detected severe bone injuries …

BJP, allies face vote share challenge in Assam polls
3 years, 10 months ago

BJP, allies face vote share challenge in Assam polls

The Hindu  

Numbers can be deceiving. But if one goes by the vote share of parties in the 2016 Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies approach mandate 2021 behind the Congress-led Mahajot or grand alliance. The party and its two regional allies – the Asom Gana Parishad and the Bodoland People’s Front – had achieved two more seats than …

Congress announces list of 40 candidates for Assam assembly polls
3 years, 10 months ago

Congress announces list of 40 candidates for Assam assembly polls

India Today  

Congress on Saturday released the first list of the party candidates for 40 assembly constituencies in the first phase of three-phase Assam assembly polls. Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Ripun Bora will contest from Gohpur seat while six sitting MLAs of the party have also got party tickets. Former BJP MP Ram Prasad Sarma who joined Congress last year will …

Assam polls 2021: Priyanka Gandhi promises Rs 2,000 'grihini samman' to housewives, 5 lakh jobs
3 years, 10 months ago

Assam polls 2021: Priyanka Gandhi promises Rs 2,000 'grihini samman' to housewives, 5 lakh jobs

India TV News  

Senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who is on a two-day Assam tour, on Tuesday promised that the grand old party will provide Rs 2,000 monthly allowance to housewives in the state if it forms the next government. Addressing a rally in Tezpur, Vadra said that the condition of tea garden workers has remained the same during the last five …

Assam polls 2021: Priyanka Vadra tries hand at plucking tea leaves in Biswanath - Video
3 years, 10 months ago

Assam polls 2021: Priyanka Vadra tries hand at plucking tea leaves in Biswanath - Video

India TV News  

Senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who is on a two-day visit to poll-bound Assam was seen plucking tea leaves and interacting with tea garden workers in Biswanath. The video shows Priyanka taking instructions from tea garden workers on how to pluck tea leaves. Priyanka's visit to a tea garden assumes significance as the BJP government recently increased the daily …

BJP govt hikes daily wages of tea garden workers in Assam ahead of assembly polls
3 years, 10 months ago

BJP govt hikes daily wages of tea garden workers in Assam ahead of assembly polls

India TV News  

Ahead of the Assembly elections in Assam, the BJP-led state government on Saturday increased the daily wages of scores of tea garden workers from Rs 167 to Rs 217 per day, officials said. The officials said that the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has decided to increase the daily wages of tea garden workers from Rs 167 …

Assam govt provides financial assistance of Rs 3,000 each to over 7 lakh tea garden workers
3 years, 11 months ago

Assam govt provides financial assistance of Rs 3,000 each to over 7 lakh tea garden workers

India Today  

Ahead of the upcoming assembly polls in Assam, the BJP-led state government has provided financial assistance of Rs 3,000 each to around 7.47 lakh tea garden workers of the state. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday launched the 3rd phase of 'Chah Bagicha Dhan Puraskar Mela' programme in Guwahati, in which she distributed the third tranche of financial assistance to …

Poll pot: on Union Budget 2021
3 years, 11 months ago

Poll pot: on Union Budget 2021

The Hindu  

The largesse to the election-going States of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Assam in the Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday was unmistakable. Ms. Sitharaman announced that national highway works worth ₹19,000 crore are in progress in Assam and projects of more than ₹34,000 crore covering over 1,300 km of national highways will be undertaken in …

Assembly polls in four States find echo in Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget
3 years, 11 months ago

Assembly polls in four States find echo in Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget

The Hindu  

From Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman quoting verses from Rabindranath Tagore and Thiruvalluvar’s works to massive allocation of funds, the influence of the coming polls in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam was obvious on the Budget. Allocations per State The most obvious political aspect of the Budget was, of course, the allocations announced for these States — 1,100 …

ABP News C-Voter Opinion Poll 2021: Will Sonowal Led BJP Regain Power Or The NRC Factor Has Changed The Numbers?
3 years, 11 months ago

ABP News C-Voter Opinion Poll 2021: Will Sonowal Led BJP Regain Power Or The NRC Factor Has Changed The Numbers?

ABP News  

The Bharatiya Janata Party created history in Assam 5 years ago, ending the Congress’s 15-year rule with a decisive mandate that vaulted it to power in the state for the first time. Sonowal’s presence meant the BJP fought the election with a definite chief ministerial candidate—the first time that it did so in Assam. According to the Opinion poll conducted …

Assam Govt Announces Rs 200 Crore Package for Tea Industry
4 years, 3 months ago

Assam Govt Announces Rs 200 Crore Package for Tea Industry

News 18  

The Assam government on Friday announced a Rs 200-crore incentive package for the state's tea industry, including three years exemption of agricultural income tax, to give a boost to the sector. The tea industry in the state is going through a difficult phase for the past few years and the gardens were also closed due to the lockdown, Finance Minister …

Ensuring a BJP sweep, one voter at a time
5 years, 7 months ago

Ensuring a BJP sweep, one voter at a time

The Hindu  

At the BJP’s national council held in early January this year, just after the party lost three State Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chattisgarh, BJP president Amit Shah narrated a parable that caught the imagination of party leaders and workers alike. Beneficiary as voter Six months before the polls, a list of beneficiaries of the Modi government’s welfare …

'2019 will be BJP mukt Bharat': Assembly election results indicate people fed up with 'jumla', says AAP
6 years, 1 month ago

'2019 will be BJP mukt Bharat': Assembly election results indicate people fed up with 'jumla', says AAP

Firstpost  

The AAP leader said farmers, youths, traders and women are “not happy” with BJP’s policies due to which the party seems loosing ground in the states it ruled. New Delhi: India will be “BJP Mukt” in the year 2019, the Aam Aadmi Party claimed Tuesday, as assembly election trends indicated that the saffron party was trailing in two of the …

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