Date:31/01/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/31/stories/2008013154290900.htm

National

ULFA chief’s sister wins panchayat seat

Guwahati: ULFA leader Paresh Baruah’s sister Hirawati Baruah Chetia on Wednesday won a panchayat seat.

She was a nominee of the Asom Gana Parishad candidate.

She contested for the post of councillor of Baruahola village panchayat in upper Assam’s Tinsukia district and defeated her nearest Congress candidate, official sources said.

Her constituency was in Bessopani area, native place of her mother Miliki Baruah, who has always been very vocal against the ULFA and cast her vote in the last Assembly elections in the State.

Ms. Hirawati had said she was contesting the panchayat polls in order to solve people’s problems and expressed hope that she would emerge victorious. — PTI