West Bengal, Assam Assembly Election 2021: Results to be declared on May 2 (Representational) New Delhi: The first phases of the Bengal and Assam assembly elections have begun, with 30 seats in Bengal and 47 in Assam voting. In Bengal, ruling Trinamool and opposition BJP, who have waged a high-risk, …
Read More »EC Announces Voting Dates for Bengal, TN, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry
Of the five assembly elections, Bengal will be the most important battle between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s TMC and the BJP, which has been making inroads into the state and has already started a vigorous campaign, inducing several congressional leaders. Trinamool to his state unit to evict Banerjee. The BJP …
Read More »Assam Assembly Passes Madrasa Conversion Bill
Amid protests from opposition members, Assam’s 126-member Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday to convert state madrasas into regular schools. The Assam Repeal Bill of 2020 seeks to repeal the Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialization) Act of 1995 and the Assam Madrassa Education Act (Provincialization of Employee Services and Reorganization of …
Read More »Amid Opp protests, Assam government introduces bill to abolish state madrassas
The Assam government on Monday introduced a bill in the Assembly to convert all state madrassas into regular schools amid objections from a united Opposition. Introducing the bill at the three-day session of the Assembly, which began on Monday, Chief State Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he proposes to …
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