jorhat the ruling congress and bharatiya janata party bjp on sunday sounded the poll bugle in chief minister tarun gogois constituency titabor bigwigs of both parties attended their respective programmes and addressed the gatherings with sundry promises the state government under the auspices of two of its departments panchayat and rural development and agriculture organized a beneficiaries meet at rajiv gandhi sports complex in titabor from 11 am on sunday panchayat and rural development agriculture and power minister rockybul hussain pwd minister ajanta neog and forest environment and tea tribes development minister atua munda were present on the occasion the state government distributed bundle of threads blankets and power tillers among the beneficiaries the ministers and other speakers at the meeting said assam has witnessed unprecedented development in all sectors during congresss three terms in power and the people should allow the party to continue its work in the days to come in the rally organized by bjp held about 500 meters from the congress meeting president of the state unit siddhartha bhattacharya jorhat mp kamakhya prasad tasa and former minister himanta biswa sarma were present besides bhattacharya and tasa sarma launched a scathing attack on the ruling congress coming down heavily on the threadandblanket politics of the tarun gogoi government the twotime minister said bjp would not do anything of the sort if voted to power we will provide permanent employment to unemployed youngsters and set up industries instead of distributing blankets and tractors sarma said meanwhile activists of all assam students union aasu and teachers of nonprovincialized schools staged protests in titabor against the governments failure to address their demands the aasu activists wore masks of tarun gogoi and prime minister narendra modi and shouted slogans against both the centre and the state government organizing secretary of aasu nilufar rahman said the centre and the state government have failed to keep the promises they made before the lok sabha election he said the agitated teachers also demanded that the state government take steps to provincialize their schools at the earliest