India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru asked Assam’s first Chief Minister Gopinath Bordoloi to accommodate Muslim refugees from East Pakistan if he wants financial support from the Centre
Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday conferred the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for National Integration and National Contribution to eminent writer and scholar Nirode Kumar Barooah, Assam Branch of the Kasturba Gandhi National .