Himanta Biswa Sarma
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‘Long standing views of the Gandhi family’, Assam CM on Rahul’s reservation remark
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday slammed Rahul Gandhi for his recent comment on scrapping the reservation system in India while interacting with students and faculties in a university…
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‘Right move’: Naqvi supports Assam CM’s Aadhaar-NRC link decision
New Delhi: BJP leader and former Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday supported Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s decision not to issue Aadhaar cards without National Register of…
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Assam CM hails India-Singapore partnership for urban planning, development
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday praised the growing partnership between India and Singapore, emphasising its potential to improve urban planning and management in Assam. Taking to his…
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New applicants for Aadhaar need to submit NRC number : Assam CM
Guwahati: All new applicants for Aadhaar cards in Assam need to submit their NRC application receipt number (ARN), Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday. A detailed standard operating procedure (SOP)…
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Except heritage blocks, no bar on selling-buying land: Assam CM
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said there is no restriction on selling or buying land by any individual in the state amid the ongoing controversy over putting a…
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Jamiat chief urges CJI to take suo motu action over Assam CM’s ‘Muslim’ remarks
New Delhi: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Saturday urged Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud to take suo motu action over Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s ‘Miya Muslims’ remarks, asserting that they…
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Assam Oppn urges President to dismiss CM over failure to maintain law and order
Guwahati: A delegation of the United Opposition Forum, Assam (UOFA) on Thursday, August 29, submitted a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu demanding the dismissal of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for allegedly…
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Assam CM’s ‘Miya Muslims’ remark sparks row, Oppn writes to President
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s remarks in the state Assembly on Tuesday, August 27, have caused uproar in state politics. Following Biswa’s remarks, the opposition parties urged the President to remove…
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‘Next step is banning Polygamy’: Himanta Biswa Sarma
Dispur: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that the Assam government’s priority to focus on the marriage reigstration bill and its next step is to ban polygamy. “Assam government…
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Kapil Sibal slams Assam CM for his ‘Miya Muslims’ remark
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday slammed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for his “will not let ‘Miya’ Muslims take over the state” remark, saying his comment was…
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Two Bangladeshis detected in Assam, pushed back: Himanta
Guwahati: Two Bangladesh nationals who illegally entered India were detected in Assam and sent back to their country, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The duo was apprehended at Badarpur railway station…
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Assam CM Himanta Biswa targets journo over his religious identity
During an interaction with journalists, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma sarcastically asked a scribe belonging to the minority community if “his people” would let them live in Assam. The conversation occurred…
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Assam CM proposes job restrictions for students in new attack on private univ
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has intensified his campaign against a Muslim-owned University, Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM) and has reportedly proposed prohibiting the varsity students from applying for government jobs…
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Qazis can’t register marriages in Assam anymore: Himanta Biswa Sarma
Guwahati: The Assam Cabinet on Wednesday decided that the Muslim marriage registration must be done by a sub-registrar from now on, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, adding that Qazis would not…
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Assam to table bill for compulsory registration of marriage, divorce of Muslims: CM
Guwahati: The Assam government will introduce a bill in the upcoming Autumn Session of Assembly for compulsory government registration of marriage and divorce of Muslim people, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.…
