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From Tezpur, Modi boarded a chopper to Golaghat district, where Kaziranga is located, and spent the night at the Unesco World Heritage Site.

PM to visit Assam on 14th April PM to lay foundation stone, inaugurate and dedicate to the nation projects worth around Rs. 14,300 crore PM to dedicate to the Nation AIIMS Guwahati and three other Medical colleges in Assam PM to launch of ‘Aapke Dwar Ayushman’ campaign PM to lay the foundation stone of Assam Advanced Health Care Innovation Institute PM to lay foundation stone of a bridge on Brahmaputra river connecting Palashbari and Sualkuchi PM to lay foundation stone of beautification of Rang Ghar, Sivasagar PM to witness mega Bihu dance which will feature more than 10,000 performers

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will visit Assam on 14th April, 2023.

At around 12 noon, Prime Minister will reach AIIMS Guwahati and inspect its newly built campus. At a public function subsequently, he will dedicate AIIMS Guwahati and three other Medical colleges to the Nation. He will also lay the foundation stone of Assam Advanced Health Care Innovation Institute (AAHII) and launch ‘Aapke Dwar Ayushman’ campaign by distributing Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) cards to eligible beneficiaries. 

At around 2:15 PM, Prime Minister will attend the programme marking the platinum Jubilee Celebrations of Guwahati High Court at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra, Guwahati.

At 5 PM, Prime Minister will reach Sarusajai Stadium, Guwahati to preside over a public function, where he will witness a colourful Bihu programme performed by more than ten thousand performers/ Bihu dancers. During the programme, Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the Nation various development projects including commissioning of a 500 TPD Menthol Plant in Namrup;  laying of foundation stone of bridge on Brahmaputra River connecting Palashbari and Sualkuchi; foundation stone laying for beautification of Rang Ghar, Sivasagar; and dedication to five railway projects to the Nation.

PM at AIIMS Guwahati

Prime Minister will dedicate to Nation and lay the foundation stone of various projects worth more than Rs. 3,400 crores.

The operationalization of AIIMS, Guwahati will mark a momentous occasion for the state of Assam and the entire North-East region. This is also a testimony of the Prime Minister’s commitment to strengthen health infrastructure across the country. The foundation stone of this Hospital was also laid by the Prime Minister in May 2017. Built at a cost of more than Rs. 1120 crores, AIIMS Guwahati is a state of the art Hospital having capacity of 750 beds including 30 AYUSH beds. This hospital will have an annual intake capacity of 100 MBBS students every year. The Hospital will provide world class health facilities to the people of North east.

Prime Minister will also dedicate to the nation three Medical Colleges viz Nalbari Medical College, Nalbari; Nagaon Medical College, Nagaon; and Kokrajhar Medical College, Kokrajhar, built at a cost of about Rs. 615 crore, Rs. 600 crore and Rs. 535 crore respectively. Each medical college has an attached 500 bedded teaching hospitals with OPD/ IPD services including emergency services, ICU facilities, OT and diagnostic facilities etc.  Each  Medical College will have an annual intake capacity of 100 MBBS students.

The ceremonial launch of ‘Aapke Dwar Ayushman’ campaign by the Prime Minister, is a step towards realising his vision of reaching out to every beneficiary to ensure 100 percent saturation of welfare schemes. Prime Minister will distribute Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) cards to three representative beneficiaries, which will be followed by distribution of about 1.1 crore AB-PMJAY Cards in all districts of the state.

The foundation stone of Assam Advanced Health Care Innovation Institute (AAHII) is a step towards realising Prime Minister’s vision of ‘Atmnirbhar Bharat’ and 'Make in India' in the areas related to health. Majority of technologies used in healthcare in the country are imported, and developed in a different context, which are highly expensive and complex to operate in the Indian environment. AAHII is envisioned in such a context and will work such that ‘ we find our own solutions for our own problems ’. AAHII, to be built at a cost of about Rs. 546 crore, will facilitate cutting-edge inventions and R&D in medicine and healthcare, identify the nation's unique problems related to heath and promote development of new technologies for solving those problems.

PM at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra

Prime Minister will attend the programme marking the platinum Jubilee Celebrations of Guwahati High Court.

During the programme, Prime Minister will launch a mobile application ‘Assam Cop’ designed by Assam Police. The app will facilitate accused and vehicle search from the database of Crime & Criminal Network Tracking System (CCTNS) and the VAHAN national register.

The Gauhati High Court was established 1948 and it served as the common court for the seven north-eastern states of Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh until March, 2013, when separate High Courts for the States of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura were created. The Gauhati High Court now has jurisdiction over the States of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh, with its Principal Seat at Guwahati and three permanent Benches in Kohima (Nagaland), Aizawl (Mizoram) and Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh).

PM at Sarusajai Stadium

Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various projects worth more than Rs. 10,900 crores.

Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of a bridge on Brahmaputra river connecting Palashbari and Sualkuchi. The bridge will provide much-needed connectivity in the region. He will also commission a 500 TPD Methanol plant at Namrup in Dibrugarh. He will also inaugurate five railway projects including doubling and electrification of various sections in the region.

The railway projects being inaugurated include Digaru - Lumding section; Gauripur - Abhayapuri Section; Doubling of New Bongaigaon - Dhup Dhara section; Electrification of Raninagar  Jalpaiguri - Guwahati section; Electrification of Senchoa - Silghat Town and Senchoa - Mairabari section.

Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone for the project for beautification of Rang Ghar in Sivasagar, which will enhance tourist amenities at the location. The project for beautification of Rang Ghar will provide for facilities like fountain-show built around a huge water body and showcasing history of Ahom dynasty, boat house with jetty for adventurous boat rides, artisan village for promotion of local handicrafts, diverse ethnic cuisines for food lovers etc. Rang Ghar located in Sivasagar is one of the most iconic structure to depict the Ahom cultures and traditions. It was built by the Ahom King, Swargadeo Pramatta Singha in the 18th Century.

Prime Minister will also witness a mega Bihu dance which has been organized in order to globally showcase the Bihu dance of Assam as a mascot of cultural identity and life of the Assamese people. This event would feature more than 10,000 performers/Bihu Artists in a single venue, and would attempt a New Guinness World Record in the category of largest Bihu dance performance in the world in a single venue. It will feature artists from across the 31 districts of the state.

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PM Modi to visit Assam today, dedicate Rs 14,300-crore development projects to northeastern state

During the day, the prime minister will dedicate railway projects worth rs 7,280 crore, creating 700 km of rail infrastructure to improve connectivity in the northeast..

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Assam Friday, on the occasion of the state’s spring festival ‘Rongali Bihu’, during which he will dedicate to the northeastern state development projects worth Rs 14,300 crore.

During the day, PM Modi will dedicate railway projects worth Rs 7,280 crore, creating 700 km of rail infrastructure to improve connectivity in the Northeast, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Wednesday.

The prime minister will also inaugurate the Rs 1,123-crore AIIMS, Guwahati , and dedicate to the nation three other medical colleges in Assam. According to PIB , the prime minister will reach AIIMS Guwahati around 12 noon and inspect the newly built campus.

He will also lay the foundation stone for the Assam Advanced Health Care Innovation Institute (AAHII) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, and launch ‘Aapke Dwar Ayushman’ campaign by distributing Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) cards to eligible beneficiaries.

In the evening, PM Modi will reach Sarusajai Stadium in Guwahati to preside over a public function, where he will witness a colourful Bihu programme performed by more than 10,000 performers. The ‘Bihu’ dancers and drummers will attempt a new Guinness World Record in the category of largest Bihu dance performance in the world in a single venue. It will feature artists from across the 31 districts of the state, a media statement issued by PIB mentioned.

During the programme, he will also dedicate to the nation various development projects including the commissioning of a 500 TPD Menthol Plant in Namrup; laying of the foundation stone of a bridge on the Brahmaputra River connecting Palashbari and Sualkuchi; foundation stone laying for the beautification of Rang Ghar, Sivasagar; and dedication of five railway projects to the nation. The railway projects being inaugurated include the Digaru-Lumding section; Gauripur – Abhayapuri section; doubling of the New Bongaigaon-Dhup Dhara section; electrification of the Raninagar Jalpaiguri-Guwahati section; electrification of Senchoa – Silghat Town and the Senchoa-Mairabari section.

The Prime Minister is also slated to attend a programme marking the platinum jubilee celebrations of the Guwahati High Court.

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PM Modi To Visit Assam Today To Launch Several Development Projects

Pm modi in assam: the prime minister will address the 'peace, unity and development rally' at diphu in karbi anglong district at around 11 am..

PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone of various projects in the education sector in Assam today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Assam today where he will lay the foundation stone for several projects.

The Prime Minister will address the 'Peace, Unity and Development Rally' at Diphu in Karbi Anglong District at around 11 am.

According to Prime Minister's Office (PMO), during the programme, PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone of various projects in the education sector.

The Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of Veterinary College (Diphu), Degree College (West Karbi Anglong) and Agricultural College (Kolonga, West Karbi Anglong). These projects, worth more than Rs 500 crore, will bring new opportunities for skilling and employment in the region.

During the programme, the Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone for more than 2,950 Amrit Sarovar projects. The state will develop these Amrit Sarovars at a cumulative cost of around Rs 1,150 crore.

Koo App PM Narendra Modi will visit Assam today and address the 'Peace, Unity and Development Rally' in Karbi Anglong District. He will also lay the foundation stone of various development projects and dedicate 7 Cancer Hospitals to the nation. View attached media content - MyGovIndia (@mygovindia) 28 Apr 2022

"Prime Minister's unwavering commitment towards peace and development of the region was exemplified with the recent signing of Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) by Government of India and Government of Assam with six Karbi militant outfits. The MoS has ushered in a new era of peace in the region. Prime Minister's address at 'Peace, Unity and Development Rally' will provide a major boost to the peace initiatives in the entire region," said PMO in a statement.

At around 01:45 pm, the Prime Minister will reach Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh and dedicate Dibrugarh Cancer Hospital to the nation.

Later, at around 3 pm, he will attend a public function at Khanikar ground in Dibrugarh, where he will dedicate six more cancer hospitals to the nation and lay the foundation stone for seven new cancer hospitals,

At Dibrugarh, Assam Cancer Care Foundation, a joint venture of the Government of Assam and Tata Trusts, is executing a project to build South Asia's largest affordable cancer care network with 17 Cancer care hospitals spread across the state.

"Under Phase 1 of the project, out of 10 hospitals, the construction of seven hospitals have been completed while three hospitals are at various level of construction. Phase 2 of the project will witness the construction of seven new cancer hospitals," it said.

The Prime Minister will inaugurate seven cancer hospitals completed under phase 1 of the project. These cancer Hospitals are built at Dibrugarh, Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Darrang, Tezpur, Lakhimpur, and Jorhat.

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He will also lay the foundation stone of seven new cancer hospitals at Dhubri, Nalbari, Goalpara, Nagaon, Sivasagar, Tinsukia and Golaghat to be constructed under phase 2 of the project.

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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will visit Odisha and Assam on 3-4 February, 2024.

On 3rd February, at around 2:15 PM, Prime Minister will inaugurate, dedicate to nation and lay the foundation stone of multiple infrastructure projects worth more than Rs. 68,000 crore during a public programme in Sambalpur, Odisha. Prime Minister will then travel to Assam. On 4th February at around 11:30 AM, Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various development initiatives worth more than Rs 11,000 crore during a public programme in Guwahati.

PM in Sambalpur

In line with the Prime Minister’s vision to strengthen the energy security of the country, inauguration, dedication to nation and foundation stone laying of multiple projects aimed at boosting the energy sector will be done in the public programme in Sambalpur, Odisha.

Prime Minister will inaugurate ‘Dhamra – Angul Pipeline Section’ (412 Km) of ‘Jagdishpur-Haldia & Bokaro-Dhamra Pipeline Project (JHBDPL)’. Built at a cost of more than Rs 2450 crore under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga’, the project will connect Odisha with the National Gas Grid. Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of ‘Nagpur Jharsuguda Natural Gas Pipeline Section’ (692 Km)’ of Mumbai-Nagpur-Jharsuguda Pipeline. The project, which will be developed at a cost of more than Rs 2660 crore, will improve the natural gas availability to states like Odisha, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.

During the programme, Prime Minister will also dedicate to nation and lay the foundation stone of multiple power projects worth about 28,980 crore. The projects to be dedicated to nation include NTPC Darlipali Super Thermal Power Station (2x800 MW) and NSPCL Rourkela PP-II Expansion Project (1x250 MW) in Sundargarh district of Odisha. He will also lay the foundation stone of NTPC Talcher Thermal Power Project, Stage-III (2x660 MW) in Angul district of Odisha. These power projects will supply low-cost power to Odisha as well as several other states.

Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) Talabira Thermal power project worth more than 27000 crore. Strengthening the Prime Minister’s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, this state-of-the-art project will provide reliable, affordable and round the clock power contributing significantly to the nation’s energy security and playing a vital role in the country’s economic growth and prosperity.

Prime Minister will inaugurate coal infrastructure projects of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited including First Mile Connectivity (FMC) projects - Bhubaneswari Phase-I in Talcher Coalfields in Angul district and Lajkura Rapid Loading System (RLS). Built at a cost of about Rs. 2145 crore, these projects will boost the quality and supply of dry fuel from Odisha. Prime Minister will also inaugurate Ib Valley Washery, built at a cost of over Rs. 550 crore in Jharsuguda district of Odisha. It will mark a paradigm shift in coal processing for quality, signifying innovation and sustainability. Prime Minister will dedicate to the nation a 50 km long second track of Jharsuguda-Barpali-Sardega rail line Phase-1 built by Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, with an investment of Rs 878 crore.

Prime Minister will also inaugurate three road sector projects of National Highways, developed at a cumulative cost of about Rs 2110 crore. The projects include four laning of Rimuli-Koida Section of NH 215 (New NH No. 520), four laning of Biramitrapur-Brahmani Bypass end section of NH 23 (New NH No. 143) and four laning of Brahmani Bypass End-Rajamunda Section of NH 23 (New NH No. 143). These projects will enhance connectivity and also contribute towards economic development of the region.

Further, Prime Minister will dedicate to nation and lay the foundation stone of railway projects worth about Rs. 2146 crore. He will lay the foundation stone for redevelopment of Sambalpur Railway Station, whose architecture is inspired from the Sailashree Palace. He will also dedicate the Sambalpur- Talcher Doubling Railway Line (168 Kms) and Jhartarbha to Sonepur New Railway line (21.7 Kms), enhancing the rail network capacity in the region. Prime Minister will also flag off Puri-Sonepur-Puri Weekly Express, which will improve connectivity for the rail passengers in the region.

Prime Minister will also inaugurate the permanent campus of IIM Sambalpur. Further, he will dedicate the Jharsuguda Head Post Office Heritage Building to the nation.

PM in Guwahati

Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of projects worth Rs. 11,000 crore in Guwahati.

Providing world class amenities to people visiting pilgrimage sites has been a key focus area of the Prime Minister. In yet another step in this endeavour, one of the key projects for which foundation stone will be laid by the Prime Minister includes Maa Kamakhya Divya Pariyojana (Maa Kamakhya Access Corridor), which has been sanctioned under the Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North Eastern Region (PM-DevINE) scheme. It will provide world class amenities to pilgrims visiting the Kamakhya temple.

Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of multiple road upgradation projects worth over Rs. 3400 crore, under which 43 roads including 38 bridges will be upgraded as part of the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Corridor Connectivity. Prime Minister will inaugurate two 4-laning projects, namely Dolabari to Jamuguri and Biswanath Chariali to Gohpur. These projects will help improve the connectivity to Itanagar and boost the overall economic development of the region.

With a view to harness the tremendous sports potential of the region, Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of projects to boost the sports infrastructure in the state. The projects include an international standards sports stadium in Chandrapur, and upgradation of Nehru stadium as a FIFA standard football stadium.

Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone for development of infrastructure of the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital. Further, foundation stone for development of a medical college at Karimganj will also be laid by him.

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T he Guwahati Traffic Police has issued traffic guidelines to ensure safety of common public, especially vulnerable road users like children, students, women, senior citizens and differently-abled persons on the road and to ensure free passage to emergency vehicles following PM Modi's visit to Assam.

The following are the restrictions imposed on the movement of vehicles:

1. Plying of all commercial goods carrying vehicles shall be restricted on NH-17 falling under Guwahati City and DG Road, MG Road, B. Barooah Road, GNB Road and GS Road from 3 PM to 10 PM on 16th April, 2024.

2. Plying of slow moving vehicles / carts shall be restricted on D G Road, MG Road, B. Barooah Road, GNB Road and G S Road from 3 PM to 10 PM on 16th April, 2024.

3. On 16th April, 2024 from 3 PM onwards all ASTC and Private City buses to be regulated from LGBI Airport towards Khanapara via NH-17, DG Road, MG Road, B.Barooah Road, GNB Road and GS Road.

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4. In the stretch from ABC Point to Assam Legislative Assembly Rotary along GS Road, the vehicles of both sides will ply on one track from 4.00 PM onwards and from 6.00 PM onwards the vehicular traffic in this stretch will not be allowed

5. This restriction will not hamper in any way the movement of emergency vehicles like Fire Tenders, Ambulances, Life Saving Drugs, Vehicles carrying Oxygen Cylinders etc.

6. For smooth and safe movement of VVIP arcade and stoppage of vehicles on feeder roads, by lanes, cuttings, opposite lanes, etc., the Guwahati Traffic Police has also earmarked several places for diversion.

The diversion points are Jalukbari Point , Maligaon Gate 3, Bharalumukh AT Road Point, Session Court Panbazar, District Library Pnabazar, TC Point Latasil, Unubari (under Flyover), Bhangagarh (under Flyover), Ganeshguri (Flyover towards RG Baruah), Ganeshguri (under Flyover), Ganesh Mandir, Last Gate, Super Market, Sixmile under bridge, Prison Gate and Khanapara Rotary.

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Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a two-day visit to Assam from February 3 and is scheduled to inaugurate multiple developmental projects worth Rs 11,000 crore besides addressing a public rally at Khanapara veterinary college grounds here on Sunday.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a social media post made this announcement and said that PM Modi will lay the foundation stone and dedicate several welfare works of over Rs 11,000 crore to the people.

In his social media post Mr Sarma said, “I share this with immense joy that in a great honour for us Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri @narendramodiji has gracefully accepted our invitation to visit Assam and spend a day with people here. Hon'ble PM will be in Guwahati on the 3rd and 4th of February to lay the foundation stone and dedicate several welfare works of over ₹11,000 crore to the people.”

The PM will arrive here on Saturday night and will take part in a roadshow the next day before addressing the public rally. This will be Mr Modi’s last official visit to the state before the Lok Sabha polls.

Meanwhile Assam chief minister also held a series of meetings with various departments at the secretariat in view of the PM's scheduled visit. He also reviewed all arrangements pertaining to the visit and directed officers to ensure its grand success.

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Not so far away in Manipur’s capital, Imphal, the majority-Meitei community had similarly muted celebrations during their most cherished festival, Ningol Chakouba, in early November.

For the past 11 months, the two communities in India’s northeastern state of Manipur have been locked in what is arguably the country’s longest-running ethnic conflict in the 21st century under the watch of a federal government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The conflict has killed 219 people, injured 1,100 and displaced 60,000. It has revived an array of armed groups, sweeping up men and boys as recruits from both communities. On Saturday, two Kuki-Zo “village volunteers” were killed and their bodies allegedly mutilated in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district. In their press release, tribal groups accused “central security forces, who aided Meitei militants” of being behind the killings.

The conflict is frequently oversimplified as a struggle between the Hindu Meitei and Christian Kuki-Zo communities, mirroring the religious polarisation seen in communal conflicts and assaults on religious minorities in various parts of India. While the Kuki-Zo communities are almost entirely Christian, the Meitei community predominantly follows a syncretic form of Hinduism and their own Indigenous faith system, called Sanamahism. A smaller number of Meitei people also follow Christianity and Islam.

But an assessment prepared by Assam Rifles officials in Manipur highlighted a different set of factors that are unique to the conflict in Manipur. The Assam Rifles is the federal government’s paramilitary force with a long and controversial history in the state. It is the oldest paramilitary force in the country and shoulders the responsibility of maintaining law and order in the northeast along with the army.

The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) reviewed the assessment, made in a PowerPoint presentation, late in 2023. The officers who showed the presentation wished to remain anonymous. They took me through the presentation, which was in sync with the views one of the officers shared with me while explaining the reasons behind the Manipur conflict.

The presentation put part of the blame on the state government, headed by Chief Minister N Biren Singh, a member of Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and his “political authoritarianism and ambition”.

It is the first candid assessment from a federal government agency that has made it into the public domain.

It is significant because Modi this month, in the run-up to a general election, had asserted that the federal government’s timely intervention had led to a “marked improvement in the situation” in Manipur . This was one of the few times that the prime minister had spoken of the conflict. Meanwhile, the federal home affairs minister has placed his faith in the chief minister’s ability to bring peace, which so far has not provided a resolution. The state’s two seats in India’s lower house of parliament vote on April 19 and April 26, in the first two phases of the national elections.

The assessment by the Assam Rifles listed causes of the conflict as determined by officers in the thick of the violence.

It highlighted the impact of “illegal immigrants” from neighbouring Myanmar, the consequent demand for a national register of citizens to reduce migration and the demand for Kukiland.

Kukiland is a separate administrative unit that the political and armed Kuki leadership wants cleaved out of Manipur. The demand for Kukiland has been revived during the ethnic conflict.

Additionally, the presentation asserted that armed groups from the Meitei community are equipping people with weapons, and the Kuki community’s armed groups are backing “volunteers”.

All of this has intensified tensions and contradicted attempts by both communities’ leaders to present the conflict as common citizens volunteering for self-defence against the other community.

TRC could not independently verify if the views in the presentation are endorsed by the Assam Rifles as an organisation. Detailed questions were sent to the paramilitary force’s official spokesperson.

Initially, a spokesperson said the Assam Rifles would not be able to respond to something that was “hearsay”.

In a follow-up email, the Assam Rifles said it would “respectfully decline to engage in discussions regarding speculative or unverified matters. As a professional institution, we focus on our core duties and responsibilities, and we have no further comments on this issue at this time.” Later, it asked for a copy of the presentation.

The Assam Rifles did not respond to TRC’s follow-up emails asking if it held the views reflected in the presentation.

Queries to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Manipur chief minister’s office remain unanswered.

Hours after this investigation was originally published, Assam Rifles issued a statement saying that the “contents of this article may not be construed as the organisational viewpoint of Assam Rifles.” The statement claimed that “no such presentation has been made by Assam Rifles”. Al Jazeera has independently confirmed that the presentation was made, and has reviewed it.

The chief minister’s role

The immediate trigger for the violence was a demand by the dominant Meitei community for Scheduled Tribe status, a form of affirmative action granting quotas of government jobs and college admissions. It was opposed by other tribal groups, including those from the Kuki-Zo community.

But in the presentation, Assam Rifles officials pointed to policies of the chief minister that they believed fed the animosity between the communities. It noted Singh’s “hard stance” on the “war on drugs” and “vocal social media dissent”, among other things, for inflaming the conflict.

The presentation accused Singh of creating divisions between communities in the state’s campaign to stop drugs from being manufactured, traded and sold in Manipur. His forceful drive against the cultivation of poppies, grown in hilly regions of the state bordering Myanmar, drove home the impression that he is targeting Kukis.

The presentation also cited “state forces’ tacit support” of the violence and the “dismemberment of law-and-order machinery”.

Another factor in the conflict, the presentation noted, is “Meitei Revivalism”. Revivalism refers to the long history of the Meitei community aspiring to revert to its identity before the advent of Hinduism in the 18th century and later the merger of Manipur into India in 1949. The campaign led to a revival of Sanamahism in the 1930s and fuelled the armed movements subsequently.

The presentation lists Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol, two Meitei organisations, as among the factors that has fuelled the conflict.

Arambai Tenggol was formed in 2020 “under the aegis of the titular king of Manipur and BJP Member of Parliament Leishemba Sanajaoba”, a police officer told me.

The Tenggol was initially formed as a sociocultural organisation focused on the revival of Sanamahi culture and later took up arms. It earned a more vigilante-like reputation in April last year after it broke into the house of a Meitei Christian pastor who had allegedly insulted the Sanamahism faith.

The Arambai Tenggol is helmed by Tyson Ngangbam, who goes by the pseudonym “Korounganba Khuman”. (Korounganba is a common Meitei name that means “sunshine” while Khuman is the name of a clan.)

TRC sent questions to Ngangbam through his social media account, which he has used during the conflict. The report will be updated if he responds.

In January, in a show of strength, Arambai Tenggol summoned 37 members of Manipur’s Legislative Assembly and two members of parliament from the state, including RK Ranjan Singh, the federal minister of state for external affairs and education, for a meeting at Kangla Fort, the palace of the Meitei kings in the heart of Imphal. It included lawmakers from the Meitei community across party lines.

Ngangbam spelled out the group’s demands, including updating the National Register of Citizens, a process by which the Indian government hopes to identify and exclude undocumented migrants.

The group also demanded abrogation of the Suspension of Operation – a peace agreement – with the Kuki-Zo armed groups, the relocation of refugees from Myanmar to the neighbouring state of Mizoram, border fencing along the Indo-Myanmar border, the withdrawal of the Assam Rifles from Manipur and the delisting of “illegal migrants” from the Scheduled Tribes list – a move that would exclude Kuki-Zo people from Myanmar from accessing the Indian government’s affirmative action policies. The lawmakers committed to back the demands.

Meitei Leepun, which is also of recent origin, is perceived as influenced by the ideology of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the fountainhead of a spectrum of hardline Hindu organisations, including the BJP. The leader of Meitei Leepun openly professes allegiance to the state’s chief minister and BJP leader Biren Singh, a Meitei.

Both Meitei Leepun and Arambai Tenggol face accusations from Kuki leaders of spearheading assaults by the Meitei community against their people. While Arambai Tenggol leans towards a stronger Meitei nationalist stance distinct from Hinduism, Meitei Leepun aligns with the Hindutva campaign led by the RSS and BJP.

A Meitei Leepun leader, Pramot Singh, told me: “We [the Meiteis] are followers of sanatana dharma. … If Meitei becomes extinct, the last outpost of sanatana dharma in Manipur is gone in the same manner Kashmiri Pandits are gone.”

Pramot Singh was referring to an upper-caste Brahmin group that lived in Kashmir but was forced to flee in the 1990s as they faced persecution and threats of violence by Kashmiri armed groups.

The Revivalists, in contrast, see Meiteis as distinct from the rest of India with their own cultural and religious identity and an erstwhile Manipuri kingdom called Kangleipak, which was merged by coercion into India in 1949.

The Assam Rifles presentation was silent on the political and business underpinnings of the conflict, the role of the federal government – under the BJP – and the Assam Rifles’ own failings and alleged bias.

According to the Assam Rifles presentation, the conflict is divided into three phases: “initiate”, “mutate” and “stalemate”. It laid out how the nature and character of the violence have changed through these stages.

My reporting over six months helped draw out details of what the paramilitary force’s presentation mentioned and what it left out.

The initiation

The embers of the current conflict – Biren Singh’s alleged political authoritarianism, hard stance on poppy cultivation, undocumented immigration, demand for Kukiland and Meitei Revivalism – have long smouldered.

But in April last year came the spark that ignited the simmering tension. This period was referred to by the Assam Rifles presentation as “initiate”.

That month, the Manipur High Court had asked the state government to consider petitions for including the Meitei community in the list of Scheduled Tribes – the constitutional provision that in the case of Manipur includes property ownership in the hilly areas dominated by Kukis. The Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act of 1960 doesn’t include all hill areas in its purview.

Heeding a call by the All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur, the leading tribal civil society organisation in Manipur, for a “solidarity march” in the hill districts where tribal communities dominate, rallies were held on May 3 in Senapati, Ukhrul, Kangpokpi, Tamenglong, Churachandpur, Chandel and Tengnoupal.

As the march was winding up in the town of Churachandpur, news spread that a tyre had been set on fire in front of the Anglo-Kuki Centenary Gate, which was built to commemorate the 1917-1919 Kuki uprising against the British.

Subsequently, a group of young people approached the gate wielding weapons. Soon, word spread, suggesting that “militants” were provoking the crowd, Outlook magazine reported. Within a couple of hours, rumours spread through the state that Kuki mobs were vandalising Meitei houses.

The Assam Rifles officers’ presentation said the period of conflict starting May 3 was characterised by “high intensity riots”, “selective targeting” and it was “orchestrated and led by militias”.

Mobs ran amok in the towns, particularly in Imphal, located in the valley with a predominantly Meitei population.

“On the night of May 3 at 8pm, people wearing black shirts attacked us. We fired blanks, which forced them to retreat but just for some time,” said 43-year-old L Ngampao Khongsai, who had been living in Imphal’s Khongsai Veng area, a predominantly Kuki-Zo area.

According to Khongsai, a Kuki-Zo, the mob continued to attack the neighbourhood despite pushback from the security forces. “They would be saying that Kuki should be killed and threw stones.”

Khongsai fled with his family and hid at a nearby school. Like thousands of others from the valley, he ran and made his way to the Kuki-Zo-dominated Churachandpur district.

In the hill areas and closer to the foothills, mobs attacked Meitei neighbourhoods. A pregnant Warepam Rameshwori was forced to flee her village. “Our village is at the foothills in Tronglaobi Maning Leikai [in Bishnupur district] surrounded by Kuki villages. On May 3, the firing started. … [The Kukis] had sophisticated weapons and started firing at us, and we didn’t have any weapons to defend, so we ran away from there and found shelter at a relative’s home,” she said.

Seventy-nine Kuki-Zo and 18 Meitei individuals lost their lives from May 3 to May 23, according to an Assam Rifles estimate. This period also recorded a wave of attacks and looting of arms from police stations. According to the Assam Rifle assessment, 5,668 weapons were looted.

“[The state government] allowed the looting of arms. I mean, it is obvious because it is impossible for people to just enter the police stations and take out arms,” a retired police officer familiar with the security and intelligence operations in the region told me.

“So the Meitei civilians and the rebel groups had gotten weapons and started maintaining vigilance in the town. … In response, the other side felt that the SoO [Suspension of Operations] arms people should get out and distribute weapons amongst the Kukis,” he said.

The Suspension of Operations is the peace agreement signed among Kuki-Zo armed groups, the federal government and the Manipur government. The SoO requires Kuki-Zo militias to stay in designated camps and all their weapons be kept in the camp’s central armoury under the supervision of the state.

“The divide was complete, and that was the stage in the beginning when the political leadership should have cracked down very, very heavily,” the officer said.

That did not happen. The conflict spread and mutated, the Assam Rifles presentation noted.

More than 8,000 reports

TRC tried to redraw the initial period of the conflict by analysing 8,169 first information reports (FIRs) – 5,818 were filed in May and 2,351 in June.

An FIR is the first complaint filed either by citizens or police, which the police then have to investigate to determine whether a crime has been committed.

On May 3, an FIR was filed recording the initial trigger of the violence between the two communities. According to the FIR filed by the authorities: “A huge [number] of Kuki and Meitei youths numbering about 1,500 clashed among each other and vandalised and burned down many houses of both communities at Torbung Bangla. In that, many houses numbering about 300 houses and some private vehicles were also burnt down by the rioters. The police personnel fire[d] some rounds of tear gas smoke bombs and other ammunition to disperse the mob.”

The looting of weapons was reported as starting on May 4 with the first registered incident being reported at Manipur Police Training College in Imphal. According to the FIR, “The large mob overpowered the sentry and broke the lock of arm kote room and looted a large number of arms and ammunitions [sic],” including automatic rifles – 157 INSAS rifles, 54 SLR rifles and AK-47 rifles, among others. The looting of weapons continued until May 31, as recorded in these 8,169 FIRs.

In the first two months of the conflict, 7,831 cases of vandalism and incidents in which residents were forced to flee were reported. In addition, 189 cases of killings, assaults – including sexual assault – bodily harm and missing persons, and 79 cases of mass looting of weapons were also recorded.

Multiple FIRs were nearly identical or similar. For instance, on May 10, 76 FIRs filed in the Sagolmang police station in Imphal East District included a similar complaint: “Some unknown persons holding arms and deadly weapons numbering about 1,000 suspected to be Kuki Community from different villages entered at [name of place] and damaged the properties as well as burnt the house.” The only differences in the reports were the place names and the lists of damaged items.

A similar trend was seen in the police complaints filed by the opposing Kuki-Zo side.

“If a village with 40 households was burnt, there would be 40 complaints,” a second police officer said on the condition of anonymity. According to him, the “identical” cases were all combined to help the inquiry being led by a special investigative team.

The second phase

According to the Assam Rifles presentation, the character of the conflict began to change at the end of May.

This is the time when federal Home Minister Amit Shah made a four-day trip to Manipur to stitch up a truce. By then, the federal government, in an unprecedented move, had appointed a federal officer in charge of all security and policing operations in the state, bringing the state police and the federal paramilitary and army under one command.

The federal government may dismiss a state government and take over control of the state’s functions if it believes “the constitutional machinery” has failed. The constitution also requires the federal government to protect a “state against external aggression and internal disturbance”.

But in this case, the federal government kept its faith in the state government and did not invoke either of these constitutional provisions.

Again unprecedented, the government sought to achieve a truce by drawing up an ethnic boundary, calling it a buffer zone, dividing the Kuki-Zo from Meitei-dominated areas and enforcing this boundary through its armed forces.

Shah’s visit and the strategy to impose a unified federal policing command and the buffer zone failed.

The violence abated in the main Kuki-Zo or Meitei-dominated towns, but it shifted to rural areas. These rural areas, stretching from the Imphal Valley to the Kuki-dominated hills, are made up of small hamlets, villages and townships where Meitei and Kuki people have traditionally lived next to each other.

Now, the villages of both communities came under attack from armed groups on both sides. A battle to forcibly create ethnic territories had kicked off.

This phase stretched from May 23 to June 15.

On a September night, when I visited the Meitei village of Singda Kadangband, located at the edge of the Meitei-dominated Imphal West district, its residents spoke about the sleepless nights they had spent for the six months of the conflict.

About 170 men from 165 households had been taking round-the-clock shifts to stand guard at 10 bunkers set up on the periphery of the village.

In early June, the villagers were approached by Meitei fighters. “They came forward to help us, but we didn’t allow them. We are afraid that later they will take advantage of us,” said N Bobi Singh, who had been organising the surveillance.

This is when the Assam Rifles presentation acknowledged groups of fighters from both communities got involved.

The state has a long and troubled history with more than 30 armed groups from different ethnic communities that call it home. They have fought for demands that range from separate nation-states to the creation of new states within India based on ethnic identities.

Many of them draw resources from and camp in Myanmar. The influence of the Meitei armed groups, which were particularly targeted by the government’s armed forces, had been waning since the 2000s. And a majority of the Kuki-Zo armed groups had signed the SoO agreement with the government.

Researchers noted reports of how the Indian armed forces, with the help of Kuki militias, have strategically isolated militia factions from other ethnicities. This allegation, coupled with a track record of human rights violations and unlawful killings, has significantly tarnished the Assam Rifles’ standing within the Meitei community. The paramilitary is perceived as biased whereas the state police have faced accusations of bias against Kuki communities.

This conflict gave the Kuki and the Meitei armed groups a new lease on life, besides leading to the emergence of new Meitei militias.

On the Kuki-Zo side, the groups bound by the ceasefire had begun from the initial stages to help civilians who had taken up arms.

“Some of the [cadres] of the Suspension of Operations groups helped us set up the bunkers because they have experience,” said 35-year-old Mimin Sithlou, the joint secretary of the defence committee under the Committee on Tribal Unity, a conglomerate of civil society organisations functioning largely in Kangpokpi district, who oversaw the management of the bunkers there.

The involvement of these cadres put the “VBIGs under pressure” to also join the conflict to fight on behalf of the Meitei community, the Assam Rifles document noted. VBIGs are valley-based insurgent groups, referring to the older Meitei-affiliated armed groups.

They began “providing arms and ammunition”, consolidating their base and “increasing recruitment and ideological support”, the presentation said.

As militias on either side of the divide began amping up recruitment and training of young people, particularly from rural areas, the conflict would sometimes ebb but then pick up again. The stalemate came into being.

The stalemate

In Haipi village, located about 15km (10 miles) from the trenches dug at the border of Kangpokpi district, Christmas passed without any celebrations for Janggoulun Kipgen’s family.

I first met 19-year-old Kipgen in one of the bunkers in September. “We were trained for five to six days back in our village,” he told me, holding a rifle.

On December 25, sitting inside her house in Haipi, Kipgen’s mother, Neinkhongah Kipgen, told me: “Who won’t fear to send their son to the front lines? We can only pray that he’s safe.”

Meitei civilians in villages like Singda Kadangband also face a similar dilemma. The nights seem endless, and the days are spent with unceasing uncertainty.

“Except for the 60+-year-olds, everyone is expected to do 24-hour shifts,” a villager who didn’t wish to be named, told me back in September. “I have a one-year-old baby and work as a welder. I feel scared, but we don’t have much choice.”

“This will have a long-lasting impact, particularly on the young and future generations. They have guns to defend their community, but that is not exactly how it will pan out. The person might use it to solve personal enmity. Then some unemployed people might start extortion. Then there can be cases of mistaken identity killing and then revenge killing. It is going to become a vicious cycle,” retired Lieutenant General Konsam Himalay Singh told me.

What Lieutenant General Singh said had begun to play out by December when I last reported from Manipur. Videos of gun-toting men in the valley and the hills had proliferated on social media. The armed “volunteers” were being valorised on social media while in personal spaces, many spoke of the worries of young men being lured or recruited by militias, spawning a never-ending cycle of attack, revenge and turf war.

This is despite more than 60,000 armed personnel of the federal government’s paramilitary forces, the army and the state police enforcing a buffer zone dividing a large part of the state into two ethnic territories that each community fears crossing.

On April 19, Manipur will vote — along with several other parts of the country — even as the conflict rages on between the two communities.

“The chief minister should have been thrown out. He is the head of state, and if he can’t be trusted, … the army and police should have gone on overdrive and taken control over the area, … but eventually, it was allowed to continue because when it simmers, your voting aggregate increases,” said the retired police officer familiar with the security and intelligence operations in the region.

The second part of this series looks at the role of the drug trade, politics and armed groups in keeping Manipur on a boil.

Angana Chakrabarti is an associate member of The Reporters’ Collective.

(With inputs from Harshitha Manwani, Mohan Rajagopal, Aryan Chaudhary and Vedant Kottapalle)

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Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi has urged people to vote for AIADMK, saying, "I want to inform the people of Tamil Nadu that AIMIM and AIADMK have come into an alliance. AIMIM President of Tamil Nadu TS Vakeel Ahmed has met AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami. AIDMK has categorically given an assurance to us that they will never come into an alliance with the BJP and will oppose CAA-NRC... I urge the people of Tamil Nadu to vote for AIADMK candidates... Our alliance with AIADMK will continue till the next Tamil Nadu assembly elections... Please come and vote for AIADMK so that we can stop communalism and fascism."

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Congress releases list of 3 candidates in Jharkhand

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Congress party has released another list of 3 candidates in Jharkhand for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, reported news agency ANI.  Deepika Pandey Singh to contest from Godda, Krishna Nand Tripathi from Chatra, Anupama Singh from Dhanbad

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra holds roadshow in Agartala, Tripura

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: In view of the upcoming polls, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held a roadshow in Agartala, Tripura on Tuesday.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath holds roadshow in Saharanpur.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath is holding a roadshow in Saharanpur, ahead of the Lok Sabha election 2024.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'TMC gave permission to Rohingyas to change Bengal's demography,' says PM Modi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Raiganj, PM Modi said: "TMC has given permission to Rohingyas to change demography of Bengal"

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'TMC govt puts its own stickers on central schemes,' claims PM Modi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Raiganj, PM Modi said: "TMC govt either doesn't allow central schemes or puts its own stickers on them"

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'BJP's sankalp patra is Modi's guarantee card,' says PM Modi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing public meeting in West Bengal's Raiganj, PM Modi said: "...The ideas of Bengal are a part of BJP's vision. With this vision, BJP has released 'sankalp patra'. BJP's sankalp patra is Modi's guarantee card..."

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'Bengal's development is Modi's priority,' says PM Modi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Raiganj, PM Modi said, "Those running government in Bengal pushed it backwards. But Bengal's development is Modi's priority."

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'Leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chandra, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal, gave direction to India,' says PM Modi.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Raiganj, PM Modi said, "Leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chandra, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal, gave direction to India. Such thoughts (from thought makers) from Bengal are now the part of BJP's vision."

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: DMK party releases its manifesto in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: DMK has released its manifesto (Kovai Rising) in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, reported news agency ANI.  The manifesto pointers are as follows: 

New flight services to international hubs like Dubai and Singapore. 

MEMU trains from Kovai. Vilankurichi scheme road.

 A dedicated freight corridor between Chennai, Kovai and Thoothukudi shall be established. 

A broad-gauge railway project from Mettupalayam-Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam-Erode will be completed. 

The Coimbatore Metro Rail Project shall be accelerated and Phase-1 shall be commenced in a time-bound manner.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav jibes at Opposition over ‘parivarvaad’

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing a public rally in Sheikhpura, Bihar, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said: “They talk about ‘parivarvaad’. Their leader from Nawada Lok Sabha seat Vivek Thakur is the son of CP Thakur. That’s also ‘parivarvaad’.”

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee holds roadshow at Siliguri

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is holding a roadshow at Siliguri in support of Darjeeling constituency candidate Gopal Lama.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'TMC supports infiltrators, but opposes CAA that gives citizenship to refugees,' says PM Modi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Balurghat, PM Modi said, "TMC supports infiltrators, but opposes CAA that gives citizenship to refugees".

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'Entire country petrified by crimes against women in Sandeshkhali,' says PM Modi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Balurghat, PM Modi said: "Entire country petrified by crimes against women in Sandeshkhali"

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'TMC has given West Bengal on lease to infiltrators,' says PM Modi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Balurghat, PM Modi said, "TMC has given West Bengal on lease to infiltrators, goons".

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: ‘Today West Bengal is saying ’4 June 400 paar,'' says PM Modi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: While addressing a public meeting in West Bengal's Balurghat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, "Today this gathering of people in Balurghat, shows that this time victory will be of development. Today the whole state is saying '4 June 400 paar', 'fir ek baar Modi sarkar'..."

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'TMC again opposed Ram Navami celebrations in Bengal, but truth emerged victorious,' says PM Modi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Reacting to HC allowing processions in Howrah, PM Modi said: "TMC again opposed Ram Navami celebrations in Bengal, but truth emerged victorious"

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: PM Modi holds public meeting in West Bengal's Balurghat

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: PM Modi is holding a public meeting in West Bengal's Balurghat.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: 'I have always been treated as a political tool,' says Robert Vadra

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Robert Vadra has claimed that his connections to the Gandhi family made him a soft target in politics.  "...I have stayed away from politics, but different political parties wanted to pull me into politics and used tactics to trouble me. I have always been treated as a political tool and a soft target for being connected to the Gandhi family...People have felt that I should give them an answer not as a businessman but as an MP inside the Parliament...You will see whenever elections approach, my name is being used...," said Vadra as quoted by news agency ANI.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra holds roadshow in Jorhat

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is holding a roadshow in Jorhat. Party's Jorhat candidate Gaurav Gogoi is also present.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: BJP president JP Nadda holds roadshow in Tamil Nadu's Tenkasi

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: BJP national president JP Nadda is holding a roadshow in Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu. In Tenkasi, the BJP's ally, John Pandian of Tamizhaga Makkal Munnerra Kazhagam, is contesting.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Rahul Gandhi attacks PM Modi over electoral bonds

Rahul Gandhi said in the Kozhikode rally on Tuesday, "I don't know if you saw his interview with ANI yesterday. I don't know if you saw his face, his eyes, he was trying to defend the biggest corruption scandal on the planet through which BJP has got thousands of crores of rupees by extorting them from India's businessmen."

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Rahul Gandhi slams Centre's Agnipath scheme

In an X post, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the Agnipath scheme, saying, "The Agnipath scheme is an insult to the Indian Army and the brave youth who dream of protecting the country. This is not a scheme of the Indian Army but a scheme that was formulated in Narendra Modi's office which has been imposed on the Army."

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Lok sabha election 2024 live: rahul gandhi attacks pm modi in kozhikode.

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling him an instrument of a few rich businessmen in the country. Gandhi alleged that Modi's job was to distract people from the real issues in the country, protect the richest businessmen in India and "forgive their bank loans". (PTI)

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: ‘Opp parties call Sanatana Dharma dengue and malaria', says PM

PM Modi said during his Gaya rally on Tuesday, "They (opposition leaders) call Santana dharma "dengue and malaria". They don't deserve even a single seat...they must be punished.”

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: "Opposition playing politics with Constitution', said PM Modi

PM Modi said in today's Bihar rally that the Constitution of India will never change, accusing the Opposition parties of “playing politics” with the Constitution by “spreading canards”.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: ‘RJD has only given two things to Bihar…’

PM Modi said during the rally, "RJD has ruled Bihar for several years but they don't have the guts to discuss the work done by their government. RJD is the biggest face of jungle raj in Bihar...RJD has given only two things to Bihar - jungle raj aur bhrashtachar."

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: PM Modi takes ‘Ghamandiya Gandhbandhan’ dig at INDIA

PM Modi said in Bihar rally, "'Ghamandia Gathbandhan' has no vision or trust. When they go on asking for votes, then do so on the work done by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. Entire Bihar knows why they try and take credit for the work done by Nitish ji and the central govt."

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: PM Modi invokes BR Ambedkar in Bihar's Gaya

PM Modi said in Gaya, “Even BR Ambedkar cannot change the Constitution. Everyone who helped creating this Constitution was a sanatani, showcasing the values of our country.”

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: PM Modi attacks RJD in Bihar rally

Speaking in Bihar's Gaya, PM Narendra Modi said, “RJD is the second name of corruption in Bihar. Under RJD's rule, no woman felt safe in Gaya.”

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: PM call's BJP's Sankalp Patra a ‘guarantee card’

PM Modi said during his address in Bihar's Gaya, "Two days ago, BJP released its 'Sankalp Patra'. This is the first time, some party's 'Sankalp Patra' is being called a 'guarantee card'..."

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: PM Modi addresses public rally in Bihar's Gaya

Lok sabha election 2024 live: rahul gandhi takes dig at pm modi's appetizer remark, lok sabha election 2024 live: chidambaram slams bjp's poll manifesto.

Former Union Minister P Chidambaram slammed PM Modi's ‘sultan of tukde-tukde gang’ remark and said that BJP's manifesto for the upcoming elections, especially on the Uniform Civil Code, will create divisions between communities in India.

“Every time they (the BJP) are faced with a concrete set of plans and programmes from the Congress, they will accuse the Congress of being a gang that is trying to break up the country,” he told ANI.

Lok Sabha election 2024 LIVE: Defence Minister to address rally in Tamil Nadu

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will address an election rally in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, and he will also hold a roadshow in multiple districts to campaign for the BJP candidates there.

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Biswanath Chariali, Apr 13 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday claimed that the Aam Aadmi Party will win the 2026 assembly elections in Assam and form the government in the state.

Campaigning for the party’s Sonitpur candidate Rishiraj Koundinya, Mann said Punjab and Assam are very similar in culture and both have agriculture-based economies.

“You can write down my words — AAP will form the government in Assam after the next assembly elections in 2026,” he said.

“We are getting a lot of love and support from the people of Assam. This is similar to what I got in Punjab, and it is a sign that a change in the political history of Assam is imminent,” he added.

Mann alleged the BJP-led government at the Centre was working for capitalists instead of farmers.

The condition of the tea garden workers in Assam is very poor and they get a daily wage of just Rs 250, he said, adding, “Give us a chance and we will increase it to Rs 450 and will enact a law for this.” Taking on Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, he alleged that public education in the state was in a very poor condition with 8,000 schools closed as parents did not want to send their children there.

“If Sarma had wanted, schools and hospitals could have been upgraded to provide better facilities to the common people about 20 years ago because he was then the education and health minister in the Congress government, but his intentions were corrupt,” Mann alleged.

“His wife owns a private school and so he is not interested in improving and developing the government schools,” he claimed.

Before the AAP governments came to power in Delhi and Punjab, the government schools there were also in bad shape, Mann said.

“But, instead of closing them down, we made those so good that parents are now taking out their children from private schools and putting them in government schools,” he claimed.

The AAP governments in Delhi and Punjab have also done a lot of work in the power and health sectors, and if given a chance, it will do the same in Assam as well, Mann added.

The AAP has fielded candidates in two seats in Assam — Koundinya in Sonitpur and Manoj Dhanowar in Dibrugarh. PTI DG DG SOM

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