Pranab Gogoi

Activists Akhil Gogoi and Pranab Doley, who are contesting for the first time in electoral politics, have just a few thousand rupees in their pockets, their poll affidavits show.

In a video message from an undisclosed location, two employees of an oil drilling company who were kidnapped in Arunachal Pradesh last month have appealed to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Assam's Sarbananda Sonowal to step up efforts to have them released.

In a rare political statement from the Chair of the Assembly, Assam Speaker Pranab Kumar Gogoi today said people of the state will give a "befitting" reply to BJP during the forthcoming polls as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ignored the interests of the state.

Assam Assembly Speaker Pranab Kumar Gogoi today disqualified nine rebel Congress lawmakers from the House membership with immediate effect for joining the opposition BJP.

Six lawmakers from BJP and nine from Congress, who had recently declared their allegiance to the opposition party, were today suspended from the Assam Assembly for the 5-day Winter Session by Speaker Pranab Gogoi for disobeying his ruling and creating noisy scenes.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today urged President Pranab Mukherjee for his immediate intervention for replacement of acting state Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya who has allegedly "converted his office into an annex of BJP office".

Sporadic incidents of violence were today reported during a 12-hour Guwahati bandh called to protest the death of a farmer activist, with those enforcing the bandh trying to prevent Congress supporters from reaching the venue of Rahul Gandhi's rally in Guwahati.

Activists Akhil Gogoi and Pranab Doley, who are contesting for the first time in electoral politics, have just a few thousand rupees in their pockets, their poll affidavits show.

In a video message from an undisclosed location, two employees of an oil drilling company who were kidnapped in Arunachal Pradesh last month have appealed to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Assam's Sarbananda Sonowal to step up efforts to have them released.

In a rare political statement from the Chair of the Assembly, Assam Speaker Pranab Kumar Gogoi today said people of the state will give a "befitting" reply to BJP during the forthcoming polls as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ignored the interests of the state.

Assam Assembly Speaker Pranab Kumar Gogoi today disqualified nine rebel Congress lawmakers from the House membership with immediate effect for joining the opposition BJP.

Six lawmakers from BJP and nine from Congress, who had recently declared their allegiance to the opposition party, were today suspended from the Assam Assembly for the 5-day Winter Session by Speaker Pranab Gogoi for disobeying his ruling and creating noisy scenes.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today urged President Pranab Mukherjee for his immediate intervention for replacement of acting state Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya who has allegedly "converted his office into an annex of BJP office".

Sporadic incidents of violence were today reported during a 12-hour Guwahati bandh called to protest the death of a farmer activist, with those enforcing the bandh trying to prevent Congress supporters from reaching the venue of Rahul Gandhi's rally in Guwahati.