Peasant group KMSS on Thursday announced a prize money essay competition on how to turn Assam into the country’s number one state a move aimed at knowing much more than just the views of the general public.
The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) organised open essay contest on the topic ‘The dream of developing Assam’ as the most developed state in India is being held in the memory of its Chah Shramik Mukti Sangram Samiti (CSMSS)’s founder general secretary Muktinath Gowala, who died on June 21 in 2017.
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The winner and runners-up of the contest being held in three languages Assamese, English and Bengali will be richer by Rs 1 lakh and Rs 50,000 respectively. Those interested can send their entries online (kmssassam05@gmail.com) or to the KMSS office at Gandhib Basti here by July 31. The result will be declared within a month.
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GUWAHATI: A group of about 12 farmer activists, who returned from Delhi on Wednesday after the protests, allegedly refused to go through the Covid tests at the airport here. At least two of them have been booked for vandalizing the Covid screening desk at the airport.
Police said Dinesh Das of independent peasant-workers’ organization Sangrami Krishak Sramik Sangha (SKSS), and Jayanta Gogoi of the CPI-affiliated Nikhil Bharat Krishak Sabha (NBKS), were arrested. An FIR was lodged against them at the Azara police station for allegedly resorting to vandalism and disrupting government officials on Covid duty at the desk that was jointly manned by officials from the administration and other departments.