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GUWAHATI
Most members of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association (GHCBA) began a three-day hunger onslaught connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) to protestation the Assam government’s determination to displacement the Gauhati High Court analyzable from the Uzanbazar country of Guwahati to North Guwahati crossed the Brahmaputra.
The accelerated followed a solution adopted astatine the GHCBA’s emergent bonzer wide gathering held connected January 6 to abstain from participating successful the ceremonial to laic the instauration chromatic of the projected judicial township, including the caller precocious tribunal building, astatine Rangmahal successful North Guwahati connected January 11.
The Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, is scheduled to laic the instauration stone.
GHCBA president Kamal Nayan Choudhury and caput wide Girin Pegu are starring the hunger strike, described arsenic a “peaceful and antiauthoritarian expression” of the association’s absorption to the relocation, for six hours a time connected 3 consecutive moving days, January 8, 9, and 11.
Members of the Bar Association criticised the authorities for pursuing the program contempt a referendum opposing the move. While 154 lawyers voted successful favour of the shift, 1,164 members voted against it.
The judicial township has been planned crossed astir 43 acres. In November 2025, the Assam Cabinet approved ₹479 crore for the archetypal signifier of the project.
According to an authoritative statement, the relocation is portion of a broader program to make the Brahmaputra riverfront, which would necessitate the existing High Court land.
The Gauhati High Court presently functions from 2 buildings, 1 of them a multi-storey analyzable constructed a fewer years ago, located diagonally other each different crossed Mahatma Gandhi Road. The 2 buildings are connected by an underground passageway equipped with escalators.
The GHCBA has called for an contiguous halt to the Rangmahal project, maintaining that shifting the tribunal analyzable would inconvenience litigants and lawyers alike.
