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Nagaon bypoll: NDA steps up final-day push, 2,309 booth committees to hold padyatras

Campaigning for the Nagaon Lok Sabha by-election is intensifying, with Debashis Sharma representing the NDA. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma led 15 public meetings across eight Assembly segments. On the final campaign day, all polling booths will conduct padyatras to engage local voters. Over 1,100 meetings were also held by…

The Economic Times · Oct 4

Thousands rally behind BJP candidate Debashish Sharma as he files bypoll nomination from Assam's Nagaon

Debashish Sharma filed nomination papers for the Nagaon Lok Sabha by-election. BJP leaders and supporters attended the nomination filing event. Party leaders criticized the Congress's past politics in Assam. They highlighted the development work of current central and state governments. Voters are expected to elect Sharma for the constituency's development.

The Economic Times · Sep 17

Congress names Sibamoni Bora as candidate for Assam's Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge approved Sibamoni Bora as the party candidate. She will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha by-election from Assam's Nagaon constituency. The Nagaon seat became vacant after Pradyut Bordoloi moved to the Assam Assembly. The Bharatiya Janata Party named Debashis Sarma as its candidate for this by-election. The…

The Economic Times · Sep 14

FIRs registered on cruelty to animals in illegal buffalo fights in Assam

Two FIRs were registered in central Assam’s Nagaon district this week following complaints by PETA India against cruelty to animals during unauthorised buffalo fights

The Hindu · Feb 25, 2024

Rahul yatra’s Assam hurdles: Saffron protests, route nod denial, and a welfare scheme

The controversy around Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is refusing to die down. A day after Congress workers tried to gherao the BJP’s headquarters, the party is set to protest in many states on Tuesday over “planned” disruptions by the “BJP” to Gandhi’s yatra in Assam. 

Newslaundry · Jan 23, 2024

The Batadrava-BJP connect in Assam

There are an estimated 900 satras — monasteries of the neo-Vaishnav order — across Assam and beyond. Barpeta and Uttar Kamalabari are two of the foremost among them but they are not on the same level of spirituality or reverence as the Batadrava Than located roughly at the midpoint in…

The Hindu · Jan 22, 2024

Rahul Gandhi prevented from visiting Assam’s Batadrava shrine

High drama prevailed in Assam’s Haiboragaon on January 22 after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was not allowed by authorities to visit the Sri Sri Sankar Dev Satra temple in Bordua near Nagaon in Assam.

The Hindu · Jan 22, 2024

Assam journalist says bureaucrat ‘assaulted’ him, cops ‘snatched his camera’ for ‘asking questions’

A Guwahati-based journalist has alleged that the police snatched his camera and deleted its memory hours after the Nagaon deputy commissioner allegedly assaulted him inside his office for asking questions – about the delay in processing documents for a loan waiver and the lack of access to a public toilet.

Newslaundry · Jan 6, 2024

Ex-Union minister Rajen Gohain resigns from Assam corporation post over delimitation of Nagaon LS seat

GUWAHATI: Senior BJP leader and former union minister Rajen Gohain on Friday resigned as the chairman of Assam Food and Civil Supplies Corporation in protest against the delimitation of the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency. He claimed that it will be impossible for the party to win from that seat in…

The Times of India · Aug 18, 2023

Assam: Locals rescue 18-feet long python from tea garden in Nagaon

Locals spotted a big python at the Balijuri tea garden area and immediately informed local forest officials and local environmentalists. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Aug 10, 2023