''The Assam Tribune'' is an Indian English daily

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published from

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

and Dibrugarh, Assam. With over 700,000 copies of current circulation and a readership of over 3 million, it is the highest circulated English daily in

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. The newspaper was founded way back in 1939 in Gauhati. Assam tribune picture by Vikramjit Kakati

History

First published on 4 August 1939 in Gauhati by

Radha Govinda Baruah Radha Govinda Baruah ( as, ৰাধাগোবিন্দ বৰুৱা) (17 October 1900 – 15 July 1977) was the founder of The Assam Tribune, a group of news papers. Radha Govinda Baruah, an enterprising person in Dibrugarh, first conc ...

as a weekly newspaper under the editorship of Lakshminath Phookan, it is now published simultaneously from Guwahati and Dibrugarh as a daily. It has a huge readership in Assam and is the most popular newspaper in the North-East India. ''The Assam Tribune'' has a wide reach in terms of circulation figures as well as the reliability of the news matter. In 2014 it celebrated the Platinum Jubilee in the presence of India's Prime Minister Mr.

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. The present editor is Prafulla Govinda Baruah, son of Radha Govinda Baruah, and P. J. Baruah is the Executive Editor.

Controversy

On 28 March 2021, a day after the first phase of polling for the

2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election The 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election was the 15th quinquennial legislative assembly election held in the Indian state of Assam from March 27 to April 6 in three phases, to elect 126 MLAs to the 15th Assam Legislative Assembly. The vot ...

, the newspaper ran a frontpage ad claiming the BJP would win all the Upper Assam constituencies along with seven other newspapers. The

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claimed that the ad was a ploy to “influence and deceive” voters ahead of the remaining phases of the election; a violation of

Representation of the People Act, 1951 The Representation of the People Act, 1951 is an act of Parliament of India to provide for the conduct of election of the Houses of Parliament and to the House or Houses of the Legislature of each State, the qualifications and disqualificati ...

and Election Commission of India's directives. Speaking on the controversy, editor Prafulla Govinda Baruah told

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that “The advertisement came in late.”

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History

Controversy

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