A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that there were no detention centres being made for illegal immigrants in Assam and other parts of India, India Today TV found out that construction of the biggest detention centre at Matia in Assam's Goalpora district is on the verge of completion.
The Home Ministry in 2018 had sanctioned an amount of Rs 46.41 crore in order to construct this compound. Contractors involved in the construction work believe that this centre, supposed to accommodate 3,000 illegal immigrants will be ready for operations in the next couple of months. It spreads over a stretch of 28,800 sq ft of land at Matia, 129 km away from Guwahati, the capital city of Assam.
West Bengal Governor RN Ravi has dissolved the state legislative assembly with effect from May 7 after completion of its term. With this, Mamata Banerjee, who refused to resign after TMC's debacle in the assembly poll, is no longer the chief minister.
Days after Congress severed its long-standing alliance with DMK to extend conditional support to the TVK, the DMK passed a resolution condemning the grand old party for betrayal and said the 'INDIA bloc is gone'.
The big focus of this episode 5 Live is on the political standoff in Tamil Nadu, where Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has paused the swearing-in of TVK chief Vijay asking to return only after securing signatures of 118 MLAs to prove majority support.
This episode of So Sorry is a funny take on Vijay's blockbuster entry into Tamil Nadu politics in the just concluded assembly election and who is all set to become the chief minister.
