The ongoing infighting among the legislators and ministers of the ruling party in southern Assam’s Barrak Valley took an ugly turn on Friday when some miscreants set ablaze a temple at Maijgram in Karimganj district.
Tension prevailed in the district since Congress MLA Rumi Nath and her second husband were assaulted by a crowd, which was angry over her remarriage.
Southern range DIG, Binod Kumar, who was camping in the area said that situation was completely under control. “We are taking all necessary steps to defuse the situation. We are also investigating how fire broke out in the temple,” he said.
Security sources however said that villagers alleged that temple was set on fire late Thursday night and blaze was doused on Friday morning when villagers detected it.
The problem started with second marriage of Congress MLA Ms Nath who represents Borkhola Assembly constituency of Barrak Valley. The second marriage of the MLA had took a communal colour as soon after the incident, senior most minister of the Gogoi Cabinet, Mr Gautam Roy was caught on camera provoking people at Hailakandi to boycott those resorting to inter-religion marriage.
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BJP meet today to announce shettar as CM
age CORRESPONDENT
BENGALURU, JULY 6
A formal decision to anoint Jagadish Shettar as the chief minister is likely to be taken by the ruling party’s all-powerful parliamentary board on Saturday, a move which would ring curtains on the impasse over the leadership issue in Karnataka.
The board, headed by L.K. Advani, would meet in New Delhi on Saturday to discuss political developments and the demand by supporters of former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to replace chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda with one of the most influential Lingayat leaders of north Karnataka. On the eve of the crucial meeting, party president Nitin Gadkari briefed a reluctant Mr Advani about the advantages of a Lingayat leader heading the government in the run-up to next year’s polls to the Legislative Assembly, sources in the BJP said.
The sources said senior central leaders would also decide on the new assignment for Mr Sadananda Gowda as well as the prospect of rewarding state unit president K.S. Eshwarappa with a plum post in the ministry. The leaders, however, are unlikely to accede to the demand for appointment of a deputy chief minister as none of the BJP-ruled states has carved such a post.