More than 200 stage dharna for rehabilitation

The Janajati Suraksha Manch today staged a sit-in on the premises of the deputy commissioner’s office, seeking fulfilment of demands related to the relief and rehabilitation of those affected in the recent violence in Kokrajhar, Dhubri and Chirang districts.

Over 200 people, including from the affected villages, participated in the dharna, staged from 11am to noon.

A memorandum with a 14-point charter of demands was submitted to the Kokrajhar deputy commissioner.

Additional deputy commissioner Dinesh Boro accepted the memorandum on behalf of the deputy commissioner.

Mob attacks cops after truck runs over college principal

Five police constables were seriously injured while they attempted to control a mob after a speeding truck ran over Samaguri college principal Pradip Kumar Kalita, 48, at Uriagaon chalk under Sadar police station in Nagaon today.

The principal died on the spot.

After the accidents, enraged local villagers tried to torch the truck.

However, they were thwarted by local police, who reached the site and took the truck to the nearby Borghat police station.

Uriagaon, 5km from Nagaon district headquarters, is under Itachali outpost of Sadar police station.

Probe into ex-MLA’s ‘communal’ remark

Dhubri police today initiated an inquiry into an alleged communal statement by former Dhubri legislator Rasul Haque (Bahadur) after a complaint was lodged by the district unit of the Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sanmilan yesterday.

Dhubri police registered an FIR against the former legislator under Sections 135 and 120-B IPC and started an inquiry into the statement allegedly aired on some of the state-run TV news channels, a senior police officer in Dhubri said.

The president of the Dhubri unit of the organisation, Debasish Bhattacharjee, alleged that the statement would add fuel to the fire.

He asked the police to take steps in the greater interest of social and racial harmony.

Migrants discover new entry route

Infiltrators from Bangladesh have now found a new route for their ingress across the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya, raising the hackles of the BSF.

According to a senior official of the BSF in Cachar, a majority of these infiltrators are entering the country through this new route near Umthiang and Kuliang hamlets in East Jaintia Hills district in Meghalaya and easily get jobs in scores of open cast collieries thriving in that district that shares a border with Cachar district in Assam.

The extent of infiltration of the Bangladeshis in the adjoining state, described by the BSF official as largescale, can be gauged from statistics which state that in October alone, 92 people were apprehended while trying sneak past the security vigil along this border into the country or back to Bangladesh.

Assam Accord was “faulty and weak” says KMSS

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) today said the Assam Accord was a “faulty and weak” agreement, which can’t solve the problem of illegal infiltration, as Dispur claimed that the white paper on foreigners issue was a true picture of facts.

The samiti’s statement assumes importance as AASU is demanding deportation of illegal migrants on the basis of the Assam Accord.

KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi today said they are organising a Jatiya Abhibartan (national convention) on November 7 and a mass rally on November 8 in a bid to prepare a roadmap and finding a permanent solution to the foreigners issue.

“We will invite all the political and non-political parties to our programmes, which will be organised in association with the joint forum of Guwahati Mahanagar Unnayan Samitis,” Akhil said.