According to the reports, Paschim Nalbari Circle Officer (CO) Arpana Sarmah has filed a complaint against Nalbari DC Varnali Deka for false allegations and mentally torturing her with fix intentions since January.

Arpana Sarma has claimed due to unavailability of labourers “when materials of only around seven polling stations of Tihu LAC were to be collected after 1 am, DC ma’am came and humiliated me and used slang words in front of officials. She tried to humiliate me on the ground that the trunks were still not taken to the designated places by labours.”

Further Deka claimed that the allegations were baseless and Arpana Sarma has been neglecting her election duties. Enquiry for the incident is going on, FIR will be registered accordingly, said police in-charge.

According to the sources, heavy rainfall accompanied by cold wind is likely to affect Bajali district of Assam voter from taking part in the polling. Additionally, heavy rain has already lashed out the district, if it continues number of voters may decrease.

To notice said, all the Government/non-Government Offices, PRIs, urban local bodies, educational institutions, business and banks, tea gardens and industries, etc will remain close on May 7.

Also the holiday is declared for Guwahati, Kokrajhar (ST), Dhubri and Barpeta only.

According to the sources, each tourism year the parks of Assam are remained closed during monsoon season to heavy rainfall in the region.

It may be mentioned, Jeep and elephant safaris are the main tourist attractions that provide close and personal chance to see creatures in their own environments.

During an election campaign he said that he will move to the Supreme Court to grant reopening of the closed madrassas in Assam. Around 1,281 madrassas were converted to schools.

He said, “UP government announced the closure of madrasas and later, the Supreme Court condemned them. With this reference, we will go to the Supreme Court and get the order from there.”

The prestigious award was conferred by President of India Draupadi Murmu for their contribution to implementing various schemes of agriculture, and the other for exponent of Suknani Ojapali and Deodhani dancer.

The awardees are Sarbeswar Basumatary who contributed in various scheme of agriculture and Drona Bhuyan, a great exponent of dance.

According to the sources, the woman was honoured by District Commissioner and District Election Officer Keerthi Jalli for inspiring people to exercise their franchise.

Ms Jalli said, “It was great visiting the 105-year-old aaita [grandmother]. If someone like her can go and vote, our young voters can too. The initiative was aimed at not only to seek blessings from senior citizens but also to draw inspiration from their lives and advocate for a 100% voter turnout.”

According to reports, Lurinjyoti Gogoi, President of Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) to contest against BJP Minister Sarbananda Sonowal for Dibrugarh constituency.

Gogoi claimed, “Assam has borne the burden of illegal foreigners till 1971, and now, another 43 years till 2014 has been added to it. How can the people accept this? There was a long-drawn agitation in the state against illegal influx and with the CAA, the identity of the Assamese is at stake.” 

Further he added, “this is a very serious and dangerous issue, which will also have an economic, social, cultural and linguistic impact on the people of the state.”

According to the sources, immediate actions were taken as soon as the situation took place at site. As a precautionary measure, the fire service was mobilized and kept on standby. A hole was discovered on the flow path from the X-mass tree, further investigation is underway.

To reports, the situation is under control. Additionally, the affected nearby areas are initiated remediation measures.

The Director of Secondary Education in Assam, Mamata Hojai said, “The contractual teachers who have been working in schools were given the benefits of permanent teachers. They can continue their jobs till they are 60 years of age along with other benefits like a regular teacher of the high school. The state government provided these facilities around three and half years ago.”

He continued saying, “After all these benefits already provided to those teachers, why should the government take additional steps of giving them regular appointments?”

Additionally, education departments officials of Assam have no plans to transit the recruited contractual teachers into permanent.