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Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
AGP nominates Baishya for Rajya Sabha election, ‘fissures' within party
Guwahati: The new generation of AGP leaders, who have come up after the Assam Agitation, yet again failed to secure nomination for the lone Rajya Sabha seat. On Saturday night, AGP again nominated party veteran and outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Birendra Prasad Baishya as its candidate for election to the upper house, which will be held for two seats on June 19, after Baishya (AGP) and Mission Ranjan Das (BJP) complete their respective terms on June 14. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now AGP president Atul Borah on Sunday said the Rajya Sabha was a "house of elders" and an experienced parliamentarian like Baishya was the best fit. "Tomorrow (Monday), Birendra Prasad Baishya will file nomination papers. Rajya Sabha is a house of elders. Normally, more knowledgeable persons get priority, if compared to Lok Sabha across all parties," said Borah. He said in Assam's interest, Baishya needed to be there in the Rajya Sabha. However, sources in AGP said there has been a huge resentment among other party leaders, who have been seeking nomination for the RS polls. Some of the leaders, who were denied ticket, said there were 27 leaders who sought the ticket, displaying resentment within the party ranks. General secretaries Ramendra Narayan Kalita, Kamala Kanta Kalita, Satyabrat Kalita, Manoj Saikia and vice-president Apurba Bhattacharjee were among those prominent leaders and well-known faces of AGP, who wanted the ticket. "There is huge resentment. So many leaders were seeking ticket, when Baishya was again keen to go to Rajya Sabha. It was a kind of protest against his (Baishya's) decision. The younger leaders are frustrated," one of the ticket seekers said.
United News of India
4 days ago
- United News of India
Armed with court order, Assam police attach property of cyber criminals
Guwahati, June 6 (UNI) In a significant move, the Assam Police have attached the property of cyber criminal Shariful Islam worth over a crore rupees and sent a strong message to the cyber criminals that a similar fate awaits them. Armed with an order by the Morigaon sessions court, the district and police administration of Morigaon district attached the property of Islam, a known cyber criminal who had amassed property with over crores of rupees by duping people. Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime), of Morigaon Samiran Baishya said that the police, along with the district administration, have executed the order of the Morigaon sessions court to attach the property of Islam. "It is the first such incident in Assam where the court has issued an order to attach the property of cyber criminals," Baishya said, adding that Shariful is absconding but operations are on to nab him. "There were four cases registered against him. The Bharatiya Nyay Samhita (BNS) has the provision under Section 107 that the property of criminals can be attached," he said. It may be mentioned here that Morigaon in Assam has become the "Jamtara" of Assam, with most of the cyber crimes being done by the criminals in the district. Baishya said that the police are working to nail more cyber criminals in the district, and similar action will be taken against them also. Baishya, who has been investigating the cyber crimes in the district, said that police have arrested 265 cyber criminals in the last two years from Morigaon who had been duping people of their hard-earned money. Narrating on the modus operandi, he said that the criminals like Islam procured people's PAN card and made fake Aadhar card, which were later used to dupe people. According to police records, Islam had been operating 16 bank accounts opened under different names. "We found that while the names and address of the account owners were different the photograph he used of himself. We have records that he has done transactions worth crores of rupees from these accounts," he said adding that police are now investigating other cases of cyber crimes also. UNI ANP BD
