SIVASAGAR, Jan 21 - The 54th biennial session of Rongpur Sahitya Sabha concluded on Sunday last at Sivasagar Borpukhuripar office with the open session, which was addressed, among others, by educationist Khagendranath Bhuyan, former president of the Zila Sahitya Sabha Prof Sonaram Baruah, Hem Baruah, outgoing president of Rongpur Sahitya Sabha Manoj Kumar Borthakur, Uzzal Thakur, Somesh Deka, Krishna Changkakoti and new president Dipali Bhattacharjya Baruah.
Khagendranath Bhuyan, in his speech, said that six years of Assam Movement will go down in the annals of history as the most barren period of Assamese literature in comparison to the earlier periods since Sankaradeva. Prof Sonaram Baruah spoke on the history of the Rongpur Sahitya Sabha Bhawan. Manoj Kumar Borthakur, in his speech, said that the language and culture of a nation cannot be saved through slogans and agitations but only by a sustained economic rejuvenation programme. A young DTP operator of exceptional ability, Pompi Phukan and winner of the inaugural award from the Hem Baruah Trust, N Tamna Sing were felicitated in the meeting. Tamna Sing had secured first class first position in MA in Assamese from Dibrugarh University last year.
In the delegates� meet held on Saturday, a new body of office bearers with noted writer Dipali Bhattacharjya Baruah as president and Janam Khanikar as secretary were nominated for the 2020-2022 session of the sabha. In a resolution adopted unanimously in the meeting, the Rongpur Sahitya Sabha called upon the Asam Sahitya Sabha to desist from opening a parallel sabha unit in the same locality as it did by opening a pseudo sabha Muktinath Sakha Sahitya Sabha, barely a few metres away from Rongpur Sahitya Sabha premises.
