Lurinjyoti Gogoi

Assam Assembly Election 2021, Lurinjyoti Gogoi profile: AJP chief started political career with AASU, has strong regional roots

Lurinjyoti was born in Morankari Gaon, Laipuli Gram Panchayat, Tinsukia district to Prabin Gogoi and Dulu Gogoi

Assam polls 2021: AJP releases 2nd list of 50 candidates; chief Lurinjyoti Gogoi to contest from Naharkatia, Duliajan

The AJP has joined hands with jailed anti-CAA activist Akhil Gogoi's party, Raijor Dal, with the aim of ousting the BJP-led ruling coalition

AASU-AJYCP form committees as they look to foray into politics ahead of Assam polls 2021

The committee will include former Rajya Sabha member Nagen Saikia, writer-journalist Arup Kumar Dutta, filmmaker Jahnu Barua, and former Meghalaya governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary, among others

Clause 6 of Assam Accord: Govt-appointed panel upset over leakage of recommendations; 1951 suggested as base year for defining indigenous people

Reports said the committee unanimously recommended that 1951 should be the base year for defining indigenous people of Assam who would be eligible for constitutional safeguards under Clause 6 of the Assam Accord.

Rohingya crisis: As Centre prevaricates over deportation of migrants, Assam locals fear changing demographics

Assam fears an influx of migrants entering its borders. These fears have intensified after a group of Rohingya Muslims reportedly crossed into Assam through the porous India-Bangladesh border

BJP's proposed amendments to Citizenship Act face stiff resistance in Assam

Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making steady inroads into the North East region as never before, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 brought by the BJP-led government at Centre faces stiff resistance in Assam.