[Assam] Dispur empty!

[Ram Sarangapani]

Well the Congress under the GOP had a 1 day week work-week and they all had
to get out by Thursday to be with families.

Power corrupts, and absolute power........

Ram da


On 12/19/06, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Do they beat the US congress which works only 90 days per year (out of
> 365).
>
> Umesh
>
> *Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>    This from The Sentinel. This must be a joke.It seems there are no
> ministers or opposition members, or even high level bureaucrats around. It
> must be the annual Dispur siesta.
>
> Upai nai, hobo diok, kopalot ji likha,....words fail me!
>
>
>
> _________________________
> **
> An empty Dispur; whither performance?
> By a Staff Reporter
> GUWAHATI, Dec 19: Asom Government provided each and every MLA and minister
> of the State with a laptop so as to make the State administration active and
> smooth. The Winter Session of the State Assembly was adjourned sine die on
> December 15, and on December 19 Dispur is literally empty as if there is no
> task for the ministers to do now. This and many such incidents are glaring
> examples for which the performances in a number of departments like
> Irrigation and PWD are a total failure.
> According to sources, while Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and his ministerial
> colleagues Prithibi Majhi, Pranab Gogoi, Bharat Narah and Goutom Roy left
> for New Delhi, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Pramilarani Brahma and Chandan Brahma
> left for Kokrajhar. Among the other ministers, Goutom Bora is in Dibrugarh,
> Khorsing Ingti in Karbi Anglong, Nurzamal Sarkar in Tezpur, Rockybul Hussain
> in Nagaon, Ripun Bora in Gohpur and Pradyut Bordoloi in Tinsukia. The
> ministers who are in Guwahati but have not attended their offices today are
> Dr Nazrul Islam and Rihon Daimary. The ministers who attended their offices
> today, only in the morning, are Dr Bhumidhar Barman, Ajanta Neog and Dinesh
> Prasad Goala. Assembly Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai is in New Delhi heading an
> all-party delegation, and the Chief Minister is in the national capital to
> attend a meeting of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
> This is not all. If anything serious happens and the ministers fail to act
> with the right earnestness, there is none to catch them on the wrong foot as
> most of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) members are also away. It may be
> mentioned here that a number of AGP leaders, including party president
> Brindabon Goswami, are in New Delhi to register their protest against, what
> they call, the Centre's failure to hold peace talks with the ULFA.
> It may be mentioned here that a few years ago Asom Chief Minister Tarun
> Gogoi was on the top of India Today's ranking of chief ministers in
> accordance with their performance, but in the latest ranking, also by India
> Today, Gogoi has gone down to the fifth slot.
> On the bureaucratic front, while Chief Secretary S Kabilan is going to
> retire voluntarily tomorrow, Finance Commissioner Himangshu Sekhar Das is
> going on leave for nearly one-and-a-half months beginning December 20.
>
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