Tarun Gogoi as Home Minister is disappointing

GUWAHATI, Sept 20: In the conferences of the chief ministers and the DGPs held in New Delhi recently, both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister P Chidambaram expressed their dissatisfaction over the law-and-order situation in Asom. Even in the aftermath of such repeated outbursts on the law and order of the State by the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister, seriousness on the part of the State Government on the law-and-order front is under question. This question arises because the agility on the part of the State Home Department to fill up thousands of vacant posts is lacking. The department also failed to fully utilize Central funds meant for police modernization. THE SENTINEL