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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday (December 21, 2025) paid homage to martyrs of the Assam Agitation, a question against amerciable immigrants, astatine the 'Swahid Smarak Kshetra' successful Guwahati.
PM Modi paid floral tribute successful beforehand of a lamp, which ever remains lit successful representation of the 860 martyrs of the six-year-long question that ended successful 1985.
During his astir 20-minute visit, the Prime Minister walked astir the memorial and toured a assemblage wherever the busts of the martyrs are placed.
Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Assam Accord Implementation Minister Atul Bora accompanied the PM.
The memorial was inaugurated earlier this month, coinciding with the decease day of Khargeswar Talukdar, the archetypal martyr of the Assam Agitation.
Talukdar had died connected December 10, 1979.
Mr. Bora told reporters that PM Modi enquired astir the martyrs and was briefed by the Chief Minister.
“It is simply a memorable time for Assam. The Prime Minister paid homage to the martyrs, who laid down their lives during the six-year-long question erstwhile the Congress was successful power,” helium said.
The PM garlanded the bust of Talukdar, helium said.
Mr. Bora, the president of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), an state of the BJP successful the State, said the full satellite volition question to cognize much astir the Assam Agitation aft the PM's visit.
"When the PM was touring the gallery, helium wanted to cognize successful item astir the martyrs. No Prime Minister had paid tribute to Assam Agitation martyrs successful this manner. We are grateful to Modi ji for it," helium said.
Built astatine a outgo of ₹170 crore, the memorial has facilities similar h2o bodies, an auditorium, a supplication hall, a rhythm way and an statement for a dependable and airy show, which volition item antithetic aspects of the Assam Agitation and the State's history.
The agitation had culminated with the signing of the Assam Accord connected August 15, 1985.
The contented of amerciable migration is 1 of the astir contentious topics successful Assam's governmental and societal spheres. Several elections person been fought implicit this azygous contented of Bangladeshi infiltrators.
