Guwahati, June 2: Assam’s leader of the Opposition, Debabrata Saikia, has formally moved Union home minister Rajnath Singh seeking a judicial inquiry into the March 30 “fake encounter” deaths in Chirang district, besides firm steps to prevent a repeat as…
During several interviews to TV channels on May 19, the day when BJP swept the Assam Assembly polls, Himanta Biswa Sarma, once the second most powerful Congress leader in the state, and now holding the same status in BJP, said…
Guwahati, May 16: Youth Congress and NSUI members have lodged complaints at various police stations across Assam against a man for allegedly posting “defamatory” remarks about leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia on social media. Vice-president of NSUI’s state unit…
Guwahati, May 16: The Congress today demanded that the BJP-led government in Assam bar central government employees and its representatives from attending RSS functions. Congress Legislature Party leader Debabrata Saikia raised the demand following Facebook posts and media reports about…
Guwahati, May 14: Opposition leader Debabrata Saikia today demanded Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma to take action against the forest department officials, who had "unilaterally" put up pillars along the Assam-Nagaland border at Naginijan…
GUWAHATI, May 12 – Assam Congress Legislative Party (ACLP) Leader Debabrata Saikia today demanded a judicial inquiry into the row over the Board of Secondary Education, Assam’s (SEBA’s) grant of excessive grace marks to school final examinees. Saikia alleged that…
Guwahati, May 12: The Congress today reiterated its opposition to the Assam government’s move to merge the Madrasa board with the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (Seba) because it was not equipped to run madarsa education. Education minister Himanta Biswa…
‘Hidden grace marks’ by SEBA By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, May 12: Be it grace or falling from grace, the controversy triggered by State Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma seems to linger long with Leader of Opposition in the State…
Guwahati, May 11 (PTI) The Opposition Congress today staged walk-out from Assam Assembly after the Speaker rejected their prayer to move censure motion against Irrigation Minister Ranjit Dutta. Congress had submitted an application to the Principal Secretary of Assam Assembly…
Guwahati, March 17: Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court Ajit Singh has welcomed the suggestions made by the leader of the Opposition, Debabrata Saikia, to improve the performance of foreigners tribunals in the state. Singh, in a letter to Saikia,…