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Topic: Assam BJP

2 Bodoland elected representatives and other opposition leaders join ruling BJP in Assam

Rajib Brahma & Prabhat Basumatary, members of Council Legislative Assembly of Bodoland Territorial Region, and tea tribe leaders Gautam Dhanowar & Pradip Majhi joined BJP Sunday.

AIUDF’s praise for BJP is baffling, says Assam Congress as it severs ties with Ajmal’s party

AIUDF and Congress had joined hands for a Mahajot against BJP for state polls earlier this year. MP Gaurav Gogoi says 'repeated praise of the BJP by AIUDF is highly unbecoming'.

Assam voted Modi-Shah BJP to power for stability and progress, got chaos and conflict

Asaam under BJP has stumbled from one divisive row to another — from NRC-CAA to Cattle Preservation Bill, population control policy and now the border clash with Mizoram.

BJP has now fully embraced the Congress culture. Assam saga is the latest example

BJP took a week to choose between Himanta Sarma and Sarbananda Sonowal, summoning them to Delhi, and then just read out the decision to them. It's a Congress culture.

Himanta Biswa Sarma sworn in as Assam’s 15th Chief Minister

Along with him, 13 other legislators were also sworn in as ministers. The BJP alliance is the first non-Congress govt in Assam to win elections for the second consecutive term.

Early trends show ruling BJP-led NDA leading in 22 seats in Assam

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and AGP chief and minister Atul Bora are leading from Majuli, Jalukbari and Bokakhat.

‘Serious re-evaluation of use of EVMs needed by all parties’ — Priyanka Gandhi

Priyanka's remarks came over a video which surfaced on social media allegedly showing electronic voting machines (EVMs) in what was claimed to be a BJP candidate's car in Assam.

Assam BJP candidate’s car carrying EVM attacked, FIR lodged

The Electronic Voting Machine was being carried in the car after the Election Commission's vehicle broke down and officials took a lift in the passing car, said sources.

Observing big changes, digging in to the best cuisine & humming Kishore on Assam poll trail

iWitness — the story behind the story of ThePrint journalists’ experiences on assignment.

BJP will enact laws to check ‘love and land jihad’ in Assam if voted to power — Amit Shah

Addressing election rallies Friday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused the Congress-AIUDF alliance of encouraging infiltration that threatened to change Assam's demography.

On Camera

SIR drive isn’t NRC-CAA—it can exclude millions of genuine voters, not just Muslims

India is a country where access to documents and digital systems is still uneven. Election Commission's SIR must not turn into a hostile exercise.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.