701 Caution: There are signs of an Assam-Mizoram rapprochement, but the temptation to politicise the strife does not augur well. PTI
Radhika Ramaseshan
Senior Journalist
History’s caprices have a way of catching up with the present times in the least expected ways. The shadow of the Partition has dogged and reshaped the history of three countries at all times but less seen and felt are the ramifications of a similar redrawing of borders demarcating the seven states of India’s Northeast that burst forth violently just when the troubled region seems to have made peace with itself. The irony could not have been starker when Assam and Mizoram went to ‘war’ recently. In ordinary circumstances, the use of the word ‘war’ to describe an intra-nation conflict might be unwarranted. But the sequence of events which erupted on the inter-state border between Vairengte (Mizoram) and Lailapur (Assam) last week reinforced the fragility of an entity that the BJP, like its predecesso
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June 25 is an indelible day the day when democracy and the rights of citizens in the country were trampled
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June 25 is an indelible day the day when democracy and the rights of citizens in the country were trampled
In the history of Independent India, there are many important dates which are both eventful and historic. November 26 is one such historic day also known as Constitution Day. The Constituent Assembly of India adopted India’s Constitution on this day, in 1949.
To make this day ever more significant, and to make the ethos of Indian Constitution memorable, the Narendra Modi government, in 2015, decided to celebrate the day officially. Post Independence, the leaders of our great country firmly decided that the fruits of Independence have to be enjoyed by all sections of society. The result was: universal adult suffrage and India emerging as the world’s biggest democracy. To strengthen our unity amid diversitie
Number of women MLAs in Assam Assembly declining
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It’s is six this time against a high of 14 in 2011
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It’s is six this time against a high of 14 in 2011
The number of women MLAs in the 126-member Assam Assembly has been declining from a high of 14 in 2011.
Six women were elected to the House this time three from the BJP, two from the Congress and one from the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP).
Ajanta Neog (BJP), who won the Golaghat seat, is the most experienced among the six, having represented the constituency four times as a Congress candidate since 2001. She is the wife of former Congress leader Nagen Neog who was killed along with eight others in an ambush by the banned United Liberation Front of Asom in 1996.
Women lawmakers declining in Assam Assembly
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Sujit Chakraborty ( IANS) |
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Tue, May 4 2021 21:06 IST |
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Women lawmakers declining in Assam assembly. Image Source: IANS News
Guwahati, May 4 : The number of women legislators in the 126-member Assam Assembly has been declining from a high of 14 in 2011, eight in 2016 and only six this time.
In all 74 women candidates (7.8 per cent) among the total of 946 aspirants contested the recently held three-phase Assam Assembly elections and only six of them entered into the Assembly three are of the ruling BJP, one of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and two of opposition Congress.
In the previous Assam Assembly elections in 2016, 91 women candidates were in the fray with eight of them elected to the 126-member House while in 2011, 85 women had tried their electoral fate and 14, highest so far in the House, secured the success.