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  • Guwahati Diary

    Express News Service

    Congress Yatra route upsets AIUDF’s Ajmal Assam MP Maulana Badruddin Ajmal said the Congress’ state leaders cannot speak up against the BJP as they regularly receive money from Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. He said only a united Opposition can defeat BJP, but none in Assam Congress has the gut to raise their voice against the ruling party. “They are all paid leaders. They get money on a monthly basis from the CM. Therefore, it is obvious that they will not speak up against the BJP,” Ajmal, chief of minority-based All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), said. He was livid that Congress launched the state version of its “Bharat Jodo Yatra” from his Dhubri constituency and not upper Assam, the BJP’s stronghold.

    Gharial sightings in Brahmaputra thrill CMGharial (Gavialis gangeticus) has not disappeared from the waters of Assam as thought. Two sightings this year have got Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma thrilled. Sharing a video, he tweeted, “Great news for all wildlifers: Gharial was thought to be extinct in the waters of Assam, especially river Brahmaputra. This new sighting becomes important in view of another sighting in March this year in Kaziranga at Silghat.” Listed in Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 as critically endangered, this reptile species is also known as gavial or the fish-eating crocodile. It is among the longest of all living crocodilians. 

    Rs 5,000 cr for facelift of 1,000 schoolsState-run schools in Assam will soon get a facelift. After a recent visit to five such schools in Guwahati, including one where he studied, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said the government would spend Rs 5,000 crore over the next few years to improve the infrastructure of 1,000 state-run schools. The state’s government schools had started in small buildings and later additional classrooms were added. The chief minister wants classrooms in one building so that the remaining areas can be used for other activities. Recently, he had a Twitter war with his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal over the quality of education. 

    prasanta mazumdarOur correspondent in [email protected]

    Congress Yatra route upsets AIUDF’s Ajmal 
    Assam MP Maulana Badruddin Ajmal said the Congress’ state leaders cannot speak up against the BJP as they regularly receive money from Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. He said only a united Opposition can defeat BJP, but none in Assam Congress has the gut to raise their voice against the ruling party. “They are all paid leaders. They get money on a monthly basis from the CM. Therefore, it is obvious that they will not speak up against the BJP,” Ajmal, chief of minority-based All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), said. He was livid that Congress launched the state version of its “Bharat Jodo Yatra” from his Dhubri constituency and not upper Assam, the BJP’s stronghold.

    Gharial sightings in Brahmaputra thrill CM
    Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) has not disappeared from the waters of Assam as thought. Two sightings this year have got Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma thrilled. Sharing a video, he tweeted, “Great news for all wildlifers: Gharial was thought to be extinct in the waters of Assam, especially river Brahmaputra. This new sighting becomes important in view of another sighting in March this year in Kaziranga at Silghat.” Listed in Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 as critically endangered, this reptile species is also known as gavial or the fish-eating crocodile. It is among the longest of all living crocodilians. 

    Rs 5,000 cr for facelift of 1,000 schools
    State-run schools in Assam will soon get a facelift. After a recent visit to five such schools in Guwahati, including one where he studied, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said the government would spend Rs 5,000 crore over the next few years to improve the infrastructure of 1,000 state-run schools. The state’s government schools had started in small buildings and later additional classrooms were added. The chief minister wants classrooms in one building so that the remaining areas can be used for other activities. Recently, he had a Twitter war with his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal over the quality of education. 

    prasanta mazumdar
    Our correspondent in Guwahati
    [email protected]

  • Two elephants electrocuted in Assam’s Baksa

    By PTI

    GUWAHATI: Two elephants were killed after they came in contact with illegally installed electric fences in Assam’s Baksa district near the Bhutan border, a forest official said on Saturday, August 21, 2021.

    The incident happened in the Koroibari area near the Batabari Forest Range on Friday, he said.

    The elephants, both adult females, came down from the Bhutan Hills in search of food, he added.

    A person, identified as Reshan Daimary, who had allegedly installed the electric fences to protect his crops, surrendered before the police.

    An investigation into the incident is underway, the official said.

    “Daimary will be taken into custody and booked under the Wildlife Protection Act,” he said.

    This is the third incident of electrocution of elephants this year amid a growing human-elephant conflict with illegal electric fences having claimed the lives of 13 jumbos so far, the official said.