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More than 50 freedom fighters along with their family members from across the State staged a demonstration at Last Gate on Friday.
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GUWAHATI: Decrying the non-fulfillment of various demands by the government, more than 50 freedom fighters along with their family members from across the State staged a demonstration at Last Gate here on Friday. The protest was staged under the banner of Assam State Freedom Fighters Association .
At around noon, Chief Minister s Media Adviser Hrishikesh Goswami met the demonstrators at the protest site, and invited them for discussions with the Chief Minister on Saturday. However, following the insistence of the freedom fighters on a written invitation from the government s side, the Home & Political Department handed over a formal invitation letter to them in the afternoon. Finally, the Association withdrew their decision to carry on the demonstration.
GUWAHATI: Assam on Thursday paid rich tributes to over 140 people who lost their lives in a peasants’ uprising at Patharughat in Darrang district, about 60 km from Guwahati, back in 1894, with chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal describing the sacrifice as a “glorious chapter of valour in India’s freedom struggle”.
After paying floral tributes at the martyrs’ memorial, Sonowal said, “The Patharughat uprising of 1894 occupies a special place in the history of India’s freedom struggle. It was an incident where over 140 peasants attained martyrdom in a remote village in Assam 127 years ago.”
The uprising, which took place 25 years before the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre, was triggered by a British government decision in 1893 to increase agricultural tax by 70-80%. While peasants across Assam began protests through a series of raij-mels (people’s conventions), it turned violent on January 28, 1894 after police opened fire to disperse agitating farmers at Patharughat.
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AICC General Secretary Jitendra Singh speaks with Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, in Nagaon, Assam, Nov. 3 (ANI)
On September 11, when Congress president Sonia Gandhi appointed Jitendra Singh as AICC general secretary in-charge of Assam, many party leaders in the state were surprised. In the past, they were used to in-charges who belonged to the so-called old guard of the Congress. These in-charges usually visited the state once or twice; restricted their visits to Guwahati and took feedback mostly from the state president and other top leadership of the state Congress committee. In the past two decades, stalwarts like Digivijaya Singh, C.P. Joshi and Harish Rawat acted as the in-charge of the