Cong. team not allowed to go to Nagaland
The Hindu
Members of the delegation were detained after landing at eastern Assam’s Jorhat airport
A Congress delegation was on Wednesday barred from going to Nagaland’s Mon district where 14 civilians were killed in a botched ambush by an elite force of the Army.
The delegation comprising Lok Sabha member Gaurav Gogoi, AICC general secretary in-charge of Assam Jitendra Singh and his Nagaland counterpart Ajoy Kumar was detained after landing at the Jorhat airport in eastern Assam, the State Congress unit said.
“The trio is sitting in protest against the illegal detention at Jorhat and for preventing them from travelling to Mon to meet the families of the victims,” Congress leader Bobbeeta Sharma said.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists