| Assam & The North-East : Election 2001 (4992 words) |
 | Chhatisgarh Chief Minister and the party's leading spokesman has gone to the extent of saying that all the political parties from the DMK in the South to the AGP in the North East have lost because of their alliance with the BJP. |
 | While it is reassuring to learn that the new Chief Minister of Assam, Mr Tarun Gogoi, has put the economic development of the State and the task of controlling insurgency at the top of his agenda, he will do well to appreciate the herculean nature of both undertakings. |
 | A senior Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) leader and MLA who is likely to be sworn in as a cabinet minister tomorrow, told this scribe that the Education Department, mired in controversy and crippled by rampant corruption and gross irregularities in its functioning, had become too hot to handle anymore. |