India News: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is confident that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance will have a smooth sail in the Northeast in t.
Lok Sabha Elections News: Sarma, who heads the BJP-led North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), is the party’s chief troubleshooter in the region. The confidence in his tone stem
Ahead of a two-phase Lok Sabha election in Manipur on April 19 and 26, the states calm exterior belies the unease brewing within. Less than two weeks before the Imphal Valley votes, the campaigning is eerily lacklustre as a Meitei radical group, Arambai Tenggol, has issued an appeal to the political parties to avoid public meetings, feasts and use of loudspeakers while campaigning. In Imphal, the only voice that emanates from a loudspeaker these days is when a man from a garbage-collection van appeals to residents to deposit waste products in the vehicle.