The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today staged a massive protest meeting at Gerukamukh demanding a halt to construction of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project at Gerukamukh.
The protest meeting which was attended by several State-level leaders of BJP, besides the former president of the party Rajnath Singh, was participated by more than seven thousand people coming from different parts of
The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti today raised the mega dam issue of Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric plant in Gerukamukh by saying that political parties supporting the construction of mega dams in Assam would be voted out in the ensuing state Assembly polls early next year.
The recent flash floods in Jonai subdivision in Dhemaji district have caused extensive damage to the Poba Reserve Forest at its different portions, where several hundred hectares of plantation including two nurseries were washed away.
The floods also created havoc in the nearby villages and caused extensive damage of lives and household properties in the nearby villages.
Dhemaji, Sept 26: The people of Dhemaji district are likely to launch stronger protest against mega dam construction at Lower Subansiri, Gerukamukh in the first week of October.
GERUKAMUKH (Dhemaji), Sept 2: Thousands of people, including AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary and former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, today took part in a procession organized by the AGP in protest against the mega dam being constructed by the NHPC at the site of the Lower Subansiri hydroelectric power project at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district.
