Days after Senior Supreme Court advocate Kapil Sibal sparked a controversy by claiming that Assam was originally a part of Myanmar, Congress leader Debabrata Saikia demanded an apology for distorting history. Assam Congress Legislative Party Leader Debabrata Saikia has written a letter to Kapil Sibal to apologize publicly to people of Assam. The colonial era began with the establishment of …
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 …
While the Bharatiya Janata Party alleged that it's the Congress behind the recent violence over the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in Assam and other parts of the country, the Congress refuted all allegations and challenged the government to prove it. Assam Congress leader and MLA of Nazira Assembly constituency Debabrata Saikia on Tuesday said that the government should take strong …
A day after the Union cabinet cleared the Citizenship Bill, 2019 for tabling in the Parliament, Congress MLAs on Thursday staged a protest against the bill at the Assam Assembly campus during the ongoing winter session. Terming the bill unconstitutional, the Assam Congress MLAs demanded the government to scrap the bill immediately. The Congress MLAs led by opposition leader Debabrata …