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SILCHAR: Deputy commissioner (Cachar) Keerthi Jalli said the Election Commission will decide on the possibility of re-poll in Sonai constituency.
At least three persons were injured, one critically, after they were shot allegedly by Assam deputy speaker Aminul Haque Laskar’s personal security officer in the Dhanehari locality of Sonai constituency. Laskar is the BJP candidate from the constituency. Locals confined Laskar inside the polling booth for five hours till senior police officials rescue him.
Talking to the media, Jalli said, more than 70% of the votes had been cast. So it is not clear if there will be a re-poll.
The ambulance reached the Silchar airport, 30 km away, in about 20 minutes
SILCHAR: Police in Silchar facilitated a “green corridor” from a private hospital in the city to the airport for a Covid patient, who had to be shifted to Kolkata in an air ambulance.
Following a request in this regard from the District Disaster Management Authority, superintendent of police (Cachar) Bhanwar Lal Meena and his team prepared the ‘green corridor’ for transporting the patient from Green Heals Hospital in Meherpur locality of the town to Silchar Airport at Kumbhirgram at 2.10 pm.
The convoy of vehicles, including the ambulance carrying the 32-year-old patient, reached the airport where the air ambulance was waiting to shift him to a hospital in Kolkata.