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GUWAHATI: As the Assam government, along with parties cutting across political lines, observed Martyrs’ Day on Thursday to commemorate the sacrifice of agitators of the All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu)-led anti-foreigners’ movement (1979-85), there were calls from within the government to declassify secret files of home and political departments related to the agitation.
Senior Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who was the minister of Assam Accord Implementation department, urged the government to reveal the classified documents that contain secret communication between the Centre and state government during the movement against illegal infiltration, which remains a burning issue in Assam and the northeast. Himanta, in his speech, at the launch of the Tathyakosh (data book) on Assam Agitation in presence of chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal said many hidden secrets at the government-level have not yet come out in the public domain.
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal lays foundation Swahid Smarak (martyrs’ memorial) in Guwahati. (PTI)
GUWAHATI: Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday offered ‘bhumi pujan’ to mark the inauguration of construction work of a ‘Swahid Smarak’ and a ‘Swahid Udyan’ in the memory of the agitators killed in six-year-long Assam agitation.
The martyrs’ memorial and the garden will be constructed in an area spanning more than 98 bighas at Paschim Boragaon in Guwahati.
Later, Sonowal, along with several cabinet colleagues, offered tributes to the martyrs on the occasion while taking part in a state-level Swahid Divas programme organised by the Assam Accord Implementation Department at its office premises at Khanapara here. The CM also released the first volume of the four-part ‘Tathyakosh’ (Data Book) on the anti-foreigners movement.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday offered Bhumi Pujan to mark the beginning of construction work of Swahid Smarak (martyrs memorial) and Swahid Udyan, in the memory of 'martyrs' of Assam Agitation in an area of more than 98 bigha at Paschim Boragaon in Guwahati.
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