For 28 years, a two-room rented space in Guwahati’s Sorumotoria locality had the distinction of being the residence of Manmohan Singh, the 13th prime minister of India who died at 92 of age-related illnesses in New Delhi on Thursday. Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur along with Assam Congress leader Debabrata Saikia and his wife Bandana Saikia at the …
When Manmohan Singh was inducted into Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao’s government for a consequential tenure as the Union finance minister in 1991, it also marked the beginning of his three-decade association with Assam. Rao got Singh, who passed away at 92 in New Delhi on Thursday, elected as a Rajya Sabha member from the northeastern state at the suggestion …
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 …
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 …