Nagaland BJP dares Cong to expel its MLAs for joining DAN govt
Kohima: The state BJP unit on Monday said the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) should have pulled out its eight MLAs from the DAN III Government or expelled them before opposing its coalition constituent in a manner of opposition party. In a statement, the BJP said it must stop fooling the people of Nagaland by playing both ruling and opposition roles creating unhealthy democratic atmosphere. The BJP said that the NPCC workers, who have joint the BJP Nagaland are happy and not in the repenting mood. In fact, they regretted for failing to achieve anything in life by sacrificing their prime time for corrupt party and the NPCC has failed the Nagas and India in all fronts, it said. The BJP said that the Indian National Congress (INC) is responsible for extreme influx of Bangladeshi immigrants into the North-Eastern region and Nagaland through Assam for the sake of vote banks and destroyed ethnic fabrics of mainlanders and reduced them to minority. The Congress has done more bad than good for the North East people, it claimed. Most of the communal riots took place when the Congress was in power, it added. (UNI)
Cong demands inquiry in Zeliang’s educational qualification
Kohima: Nagaland PCC on Monday demanded setting up of an inquiry committee to verify the educational qualification of Chief Minister T R Zeliang alleging that those furnished by him were false. NPCC working president P Ayang Aonok in a memorandum to Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya alleged that Zeliang had furnished false information in the affidavit in Form-26 that he had passed Bachelor of Arts in 1980 while filing his nomination paper before the returning officer for election to the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly from Peren (ST) assembly constituency. Zeliang had said in his nomination that he had passed BA from Kohima College under North Eastern Hill University in 1980. NPCC had, however, through an RTI found that Zeliang had appeared for BA examination from the college in 1979 but failed. He did not appear for the examination in 1980. It therefore demanded that the Governor set up an inquiry committee immediately to verify the affidavit submitted by Zeliang in Form-26 and other relevant documents. (PTI)
Guwahati hosts Pine Mount Alumnae quiz contest
GUWAHATI: The Padmashree J.K Choudhury Memorial inter school prize money quiz was organized by the Pine Mount School Alumnae, (Assam Chapter), at the Bishnu-Nirmala Bhawan, Latasil on November 6. Students from several schools of Guwahati participated in the competition viz: Army Public School, Maria’s Public School, Royal Global School, Miles Bronson, Maharshi Vidya Mandir, Don Bosco, K.V.Maligaon to name a few. More than 22 teams took part in the competition and 6 teams made it to the final. The winners were awarded with cash prizes along with certificates of participation.The team comprising of Rishav Gogoi and Arnav Das from Maharshi Vidya Mandir, Barsajai, bagged the first prize and took home the glittering running trophy for ‘Best Team’. Maria’s Public School bagged the second prize. Their team comprised of Saurav Das and Padmanav Barua. Amlan Sarkar and Utkansa Gupta from Army Public School Narangi were placed third. The quiz was ably conducted by Quizmasters Tridip Bora and Trikal Rabha.
