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Padma Awards: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan was also honoured with the Padma Bhushan by President Ram Nath Kovind.
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Assam saw more developmental schemes under the Tarun Gogoi government than the AGP regime. More villages were connected by roads with greater disbursal of funds from the Centre. On the flip side, the Gogoi government failed to evolve long-term policies to tackle flood, prevent the influx of foreign nationals, etc
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President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among several dignitaries that paid tributes to former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who passed away in Guwahati at the age of 86
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Tarun Gogoi led the Congress government in Assam for 15 consecutive years between 2001 and 2016 – making him the longest-serving chief minister of the state.
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Tarun Gogoi had tested positive for COVID-19 on August 25 and was admitted to the GMCH the next day..
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Even though Himanta Biswa Sarma has had to travel across the state due to party work, he has kept a watch on his mentor's health.
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The 85-year-old leader who had tested positive for the infection on August 25, tested negative recently but remained in the hospital.
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Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi has claimed that former CJI Ranjan Gogoi could be the Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate in next year's assembly polls.
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Outgoing Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said he accepts the defeat in the Assembly polls with "all humbleness" and congratulated BJP leader
Sarbananda Sonowal and his party for the victory
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The reaction came soon after election trends in five states suggested that Congress had lost in Kerala and Assam ruled by it and failed to make a dent in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu despite alliances.
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TMC was leading in 140 seats and the Left-Congress in 58 in the 294-seat West Bengal Assembly, according to television channels. BJP was also leading in three seats.
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The electoral fate of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, his challenger from BJP Sarbananda Sonowal and other candidates will be known in a few hours.
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During Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry, BJP was the most discussed political party while West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee the most talked about political leader on Facebook
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An estimated 79.51 percent polling was recorded in West Bengal and 82.21 percent in Assam, Election Commission sources said in Delhi.
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Voters, particularly women and first time voters, stood in queues at the polling booths two hours ahead of the commencement of polling at 7 AM for the remaining 61 seats.
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Addressing a poll meeting here, he asked the people to elect a BJP-led government with absolute majority and defeat the forces which were spreading rumours to create political instability in Assam and stop the state from embarking on the path of development.
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People queued up before the polling booths since morning where CCTV cameras were put up and web-casting facilities provided to ensure free and fair election.
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Half of the 95,11,732 voters including Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have cast their votes so far, election office sources said, adding 50.83 percent polling was recorded across 2190 polling stations in 65 constituencies till 2 PM.
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The Chief Minister cast his vote in Jorhat today during the first phase of Assam Assembly polling to decide the fate of 539 candidates in 65 of the 126 constituencies.
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Elections in West Bengal have been spread over six phases, while Assam polls will be held in two phases. In West Bengal, elections will be held on seven dates with the first phase having two polling days - the other being on April 11.
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Stating that the people of Assam always respect their elders, Gogoi further charged that Modi and other BJP leaders were "coming to the state and insulting the people of Assam".
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"Congress tried to destroy and change the demography of the state by encouraging infiltration. Congress has been doing it for many decades and took no action," Union Minister Arun Jaitley said attacking the Gogoi government while releasing BJP's Vision Document for Assam.
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"I have three agendas. Development, fast development and all round development," Narendra Modi said at an election rally here as he hit the campaign trail and claimed his government had allocated many times more funds for state's infrastructure than the previous governments.
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The Chief Minister and his wife own immovable assets worth Rs 4,25,00,000 with property in Guwahati and New Delhi while the BJP aspirant has immovable assets worth Rs 1,15,00,000 with inherited and property received as gift in Dibrugarh and Guwahati respectively.
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"We would urge upon the the Union Government to fully compensate the state for the CST loss through adequate provision in the Union Budget 2016-17," Pradip Kumar Amat, Finance Minister of Odisha said during the meeting.
