A visit to Zero Point has become almost a daily ritual for 50-year-old Aminur Rahman.
This is the site in Adabari Part 2, about 4km off Dhubri town, where India’s longest river bridge stretching 19.03 km is to come up by 2028 and connect Dhubri in Assam with Phulbari in Meghalaya across the Brahmaputra.
Work began at the site shortly before Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the bridge through videoconferencing on February 18, just 37 days ahead of the start of the three-phase Assam elections on March 27.
Residents’ faces here light up at any mention of the under-construction bridge, which has generated much more excitement and hope than the ongoing election.