The BJP’s vision document for Delhi assembly election that described people from the North East India as “immigrants” and “migrants” fired protests in the region on Wednesday, February 04, 2015. Advertisements Tension prevailed at the State BJP headquarters for over an hour as hundreds of National Students’ Union of India activists staged a dharna blocking […]
In a violent and tragic day for Assam, Pranab Bodo, a 43-year-old man and an activist of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) for the last 10 years today self-immolated as a part of the agitation demanding land rights for 85,000 families living in and around Guwahati. Bodo, who is a carpenter by profession, was […]
Just on the eve of Bohag Bihu i.e. on 10th April ULFA had issued a statement requesting the Bihu Organizing Committees and the artists of Assam not to stage or sing Bollywood Hindi songs for seven days of Bihu celebration. The request was accepted by all the artists of Assam except Zubeen Garg, a popular […]
The magisterial committee formed to investigate the molestation of a teenage girl on July 13 allegedly by Army jawans at Demow in Sibsagar district began public hearings today. District magistrate Purabi Gogoi entrusted with the investigation met locals at Nitaipukhuri in Demow where the incident took place, official sources said. Meanwhile, agitationists in the district […]
RTI activist and KMSS General Secretary Akhil Gogoi on Tuesday blasted with a new theory that the recent molestation of the Guwahati girl instigated by the reporter of news channel NewsLive may have been part of a greater conspiracy to stain the image of and destabilise the government. Pointing out that the channel is owned […]
By- Staff Reporter | Date- July 16, 2012 Under the leadership of KMSS leader & RTI activist Akhil Gogoi, around 200 people staged protest program in front of the satellite channel NewsLive over the Guwahati girl molestation row. The protestor included members of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti(KMSS), Nari Mukti Sangram Saimit(NKSS) and some numbers of […]
Flashing out the recent Guwahati girl’s molestation row, KMSS leader and RTI activist Akhil Gogoi today claimed in a press meet that one journalist of satellite channel NewsLive, named Gaurav Jyoti Neog is the prime culprit behind the inhuman incident. Defending his own claim, Akhil Gogoi also announced that he had video footage of NewsLive […]
By- Priyankan Goswami For a state that earns more than one third of its income from and employs more than 65% workforce in agriculture, all of what is written below based on facts and figures being reported in different media, is disastrous news. Even on the same day when Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi boasted that […]
By- Staff Reporter | Date- February 24, 2012 The anti-dam movement in Assam took a booster yesterday with National Activist Medha Patkar, of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) fame joining in and addressing a huge mass gathering against the construction of big dams in the region. Patkar, addressing a mammoth public rally at Sauldhuaghat in Lakhimpur […]
By- Staff Reporter | Date- February 18, 2012 The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) has come down heavily on the Group of Ministers (Gom) appointed by the Assam State Government and accused it of betraying the wishes of the people of Assam by agreeing to continue the construction of the 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Project […]