Assam Congress List

The Congress on Tuesday came out with lists of candidates for elections for the upcoming state polls, including 21 for the Assam Assembly elections.

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit has taken potshots at his party for not including ''infamous'' G-23 in the party's star campaigners list for ensuing West Bengal and Assam Assembly elections, saying if the high command thinks that 30 leaders selected for campaigning are enough to win the polls ''then it's good, what's the need for other leaders''.

The Congress on Wednesday announced a list of 26 candidates for the Assam Assembly polls.

The Congress in Assam has announced the names of its candidates for 40 seats in the first of the three-phase election. The party has allowed all its MLAs to recontest in the Upper Assam region, which will vote on March 27.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is in Assam for the upcoming assembly elections, launched the party's five-guarantee campaign on Tuesday.

Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday that after the "Assam NRC (National Register of Citizens) fiasco", the Narendra Modi government has quickly "changed gears" and is now talking of NPR.

Union Home Minister and BJP chief Amit Shah on Monday set a 2024 deadline for identifying "each and every" illegal immigrant in the country and deporting them before the next general election. Speaking at election rallies in Jharkhand on the National Register of Citizens in Assam, Mr Shah lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for showing conce...

The Winter session of the Assam Assembly began on a stormy note today with MLAs of the opposition Congress, protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and the state government's bid to reject the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), lying down outside the House after being prevented from raising an adjournment motion.

The updated final NRC, which validates bonafide Indian citizens of Assam, has left out over 19 lakh applicants.

The Trinamool Congress has asked the BJP to clarify the exclusion of a large number of Hindus in the final National Register of Citizen (NRC) list in Assam, ahead of party chief Amit Shah's scheduled visit to West Bengal.

Weeks after Assam's list of citizens excluded over 19 lakh people, the BJP has announced that passing the Citizenship (Amendment) bill-which makes it easier for non-Muslim immigrants to get Indian citizenship-in parliament is next on the party's agenda.

Tripura Congress chief Pradyot Manikya Deb Barman has resigned as the party chief, after falling out with the central leadership over the Assam Citizens' list and how the party wants to run its state units in the northeast.

An exercise to filter out illegal immigrants similar to the one carried out in Assam is likely to be one of the major political issues in Haryana as parties step up their state election campaign in the northern state. At least 1.82 crore people will vote in Haryana on October 21; the results will be out three days later.

Kirit Pradyot Deb Barman, the president of the Congress's Tripura unit, has threatened to resign over his petition in the Supreme Court in which he has requested implementation of an Assam-like citizens' list in the state. Mr Deb Burman, 41, has alleged that senior Congress leader Luizinho Faleiro is pressuring him to withdraw the petition.

Congress leader Debabrata Saikia, who is also the leader of the opposition in state assembly, has claimed in a letter to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal that people from Assam are being harassed in other states after the release of final citizens' list last month.

The Congress on Tuesday came out with lists of candidates for elections for the upcoming state polls, including 21 for the Assam Assembly elections.

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit has taken potshots at his party for not including ''infamous'' G-23 in the party's star campaigners list for ensuing West Bengal and Assam Assembly elections, saying if the high command thinks that 30 leaders selected for campaigning are enough to win the polls ''then it's good, what's the need for other leaders''.

The Congress on Wednesday announced a list of 26 candidates for the Assam Assembly polls.

The Congress in Assam has announced the names of its candidates for 40 seats in the first of the three-phase election. The party has allowed all its MLAs to recontest in the Upper Assam region, which will vote on March 27.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is in Assam for the upcoming assembly elections, launched the party's five-guarantee campaign on Tuesday.

Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday that after the "Assam NRC (National Register of Citizens) fiasco", the Narendra Modi government has quickly "changed gears" and is now talking of NPR.

Union Home Minister and BJP chief Amit Shah on Monday set a 2024 deadline for identifying "each and every" illegal immigrant in the country and deporting them before the next general election. Speaking at election rallies in Jharkhand on the National Register of Citizens in Assam, Mr Shah lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for showing conce...

The Winter session of the Assam Assembly began on a stormy note today with MLAs of the opposition Congress, protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and the state government's bid to reject the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), lying down outside the House after being prevented from raising an adjournment motion.

The updated final NRC, which validates bonafide Indian citizens of Assam, has left out over 19 lakh applicants.

The Trinamool Congress has asked the BJP to clarify the exclusion of a large number of Hindus in the final National Register of Citizen (NRC) list in Assam, ahead of party chief Amit Shah's scheduled visit to West Bengal.

Weeks after Assam's list of citizens excluded over 19 lakh people, the BJP has announced that passing the Citizenship (Amendment) bill-which makes it easier for non-Muslim immigrants to get Indian citizenship-in parliament is next on the party's agenda.

Tripura Congress chief Pradyot Manikya Deb Barman has resigned as the party chief, after falling out with the central leadership over the Assam Citizens' list and how the party wants to run its state units in the northeast.

An exercise to filter out illegal immigrants similar to the one carried out in Assam is likely to be one of the major political issues in Haryana as parties step up their state election campaign in the northern state. At least 1.82 crore people will vote in Haryana on October 21; the results will be out three days later.

Kirit Pradyot Deb Barman, the president of the Congress's Tripura unit, has threatened to resign over his petition in the Supreme Court in which he has requested implementation of an Assam-like citizens' list in the state. Mr Deb Burman, 41, has alleged that senior Congress leader Luizinho Faleiro is pressuring him to withdraw the petition.

Congress leader Debabrata Saikia, who is also the leader of the opposition in state assembly, has claimed in a letter to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal that people from Assam are being harassed in other states after the release of final citizens' list last month.