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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

ACKHSA paid homage to martyrs’

SILCHAR, May 22: All Cachar Karimganj Hailakandi Students’ Association (ACKHSA) remembered with deep emotion and profound respect to the 11 martyrs’ who laid down their lives for the sake of their mother tongue Bengali, on May 19,1961, which came under assault from the State through bureaucratic interference and the conspiratorial design of linguistic jingoism and chauvinism, here on Saturday.
At the outset, all the members of the organization paid floral tributes before the statue of Kamala Bhattacharjee, one of the martyrs, situated at Shillongpatty, where from they brought out a huge rally consisting of students of different schools, colleges and university, which ends at Gandhi Bhag. Thereafter, the members of the organization offered their homage at the martyr column at Gandhi Bhag.
Earlier, the members of the organization took an oath to mobilize a democratic movement in demand of the early completion of Silchar-Lumding broadgauge and east-west corridor project. Rupam Nandi Purkaystha, advisor of the organization, said that the spirit of the martyrs’, who sacrificed their lives for their mother tongue, played an important role in the movement for the establishment of Assam University in Silchar. He urged the young generation to come forward and to work for the betterment of the society.
The members of the organization were also present included Asit Debroy, president, Abidhur Rehman, working president, Ankita Bhattacharjee, secretary, Debasish Malakar, Alok Dhar, Monoj Das, Sandip Dey, Namita Sinha.

Source: http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=118308&dtP=2012-05-23&ppr=1#118308

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