Assam: Huge cache of arms, ammunition recovered
According to reports, the Army and the police have recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition, including sophisticated, weapons at Haflong town in the hills district.
“Based on intelligence inputs, the Army and the police had jointly launched operation at Haflong and recovered the arms,” a top police official said.
Security forces recovered one AK-56 rifle, four hand grenades, four detonators, one kilograms RDX, 22 rounds live ammunition.
On other hand, polling officials have narrowly escaped when suspected militants fired on two vehicles in Karbi Anglong district on Friday evening.
On Apr 10, suspected militants had targeted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members, supporters at Baithalangsoo area in which suspected militants fired on several vehicles.
Total 37 candidates of three Lok Sabha constituencies are in fray in the fourth phase polls in Assam (Second) on Saturday, where campaign came to an end of fourth phase polling on Thursday.
Candidates of the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Communist Party of India-Marxist, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), Samajwadi Party (SP), Shiv Sena, All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) are contesting in the three seats in Karimganj (SC), Silchar and Autonomous District (ST).
An electorate of 29,26,762 including 14,00,594 women will exercise their franchise at 3,698 polling stations for the fourth phase polls.
Among the 37 candidates, present Member of Parliament of Karimganj (SC) constituency Kabindra Purkayastha, Krishna Das, Jairam Engleng are contesting for the BJP, where present MP Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya, Biren Singh Engti, Sushmita Dev are also in fray for the Congress.
On other hand, Rabindra Nath Choudhury, Bijoy Krishna Nath are contesting for the AGP.
Security measures have been tightened with additional forces deployed in each polling station.
On other hand, Karbi militant groups Karbi National Liberation Army (KNLA) and Karbi People’s Liberation Tiger (KPLT) had withdrawn indefinite bandh called by the rebel groups from April 8.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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