Union Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah. (PTI)
Live Election Updates: Addressing a public demonstration in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Thursday, the Union’s interior ministers said that development in Assam is not possible without peace in the region. If people need jobs, health care, education, a home and electricity, then it cannot be done by taking up arms, ”he said.
Recently, more than 1,000 militants from five militant groups in the Karbi Anglong district had ceremonially laid down their arms at an event in Guwahati in the presence of the Chief Minister of the State, Sarbananda Sonowal.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated on Thursday and laid the foundation stone for several development projects in Puducherry. He inaugurated the projects at the Jawaharlal Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education and Research at UT. It is also scheduled to lay the foundation stone for multiple infrastructure projects worth more than Rs 12,400 crore in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore around 4pm. In the wake of the upcoming Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, the BJP has drawn up a comprehensive plan to attract backward small castes in the Dravidian State as part of its efforts to counter its image of a party dominated by the upper castes of the hindi heart.
BJP President JP Nadda also launched the ‘Lokkho Sonar Bangla (manifesto) crowdsourcing campaign’ in Kolkata on Thursday. BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh and the party’s national secretary general, Kailash Vijayvargiya, were also present on the occasion. Bengali actor Payel Sarkar joined the party at the meeting.
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In the wake of the upcoming Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, the BJP has drawn up a comprehensive plan to attract backward small castes in the Dravidian State as part of its efforts to counter its image of a party dominated by the upper castes of the hindi heart. (File photo)
Modi would be on a one-day visit to Puducherry on Thursday to publicize various Centrally-sponsored projects in a function via video conference at the convention center in JIPMER. He would then proceed to Lawspet to address a public meeting hosted by the local unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the context of the upcoming Assembly vote.
This would be Modi’s second visit here. He had visited it on February 25, 2018 to participate in the golden jubilee of the formation of the Auroville International project. All UT schools have been ordered to close for the day in view of the diversion of traffic for the prime minister’s visit.
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