Assam Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
RECAP: EC bars Himanta Biswa Sarma from campaigning for 48 hours
The Election Commission on Friday barred Assam minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma from campaigning for 48 with immediate effect for allegedly making threatening remarksagainst Bodoland People’s Front chief Hagrama Mohilary.
The Commission hereby strongly condemns the impugned statements made by Himanta Biswa Sarma. The Commission… bars him from holding any public meetings, public processions, public rallies, road shows, interviews and public utterances in media (electronic, print, social media) in connection with ongoing elections for 48 hours from immediate effect on April 02 (Friday),” the order read.
The Congress had approached the EC demanding action against Sarma for his remark that Mohilary would be sent to jail through central probe agency NIA if he does “extremism” with rebel leader M Batha.
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ECI to hear issue of BPF candidate joining BJP amidst Assam polls
The Election Commission will conduct a hearing on Saturday into Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) candidate Rangja Khungur Basumatary crossing over to BJP in the middle of the ongoing Assam Assembly polls.
The poll body will be hearing the matter at 12 pm Saturday, PTI reported.
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PM to hold rallies in Assam, Bengal today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold election campaigns in West Bengal and Assam on Friday. He is expected to address rallies in Tamulpur, Assam and Tarakeshwar and Sonarpur in Bengal.
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Congress denies having alliance with ISF, we think differently: Abbas Siddiqui
Indian Secular Front (ISF) president Abbas Siddiqui said that despite Congress denying having an alliance with his party, the two parties are working together in West Bengal.
“Congress denies having an alliance with us but we don’t think that. We want Sanjukta Morcha to form the government and Congress workers to do better as they are struggling too. If their leadership thinks differently, what can we do?” Siddiqui told ANI.
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Mamata will lose Nandigram, looking for another seat: JP Nadda
BJP president JP Nadda on Saturday said the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is ‘losing from Nandigram’ and claimed that her own party persons have told him that she is ‘looking for another seat to contest’.
“This is their strategy and they know better about it, but we have information that she is searching (for another seat) and their people have said so to me. However, I cannot take a guarantee of this as they know it. But she is losing Nandigram, this is certain,” he said.