GUWAHATI, Jan 17 � Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today made an appeal to the people to engage themselves in a mission for building a peaceful, prosperous Assam. Gogoi was inaugurating the Swahid Bedi (martyrs� altar) at the Shradh-anjali Kanan on the RG Baruah Road here.
The Swahid Bedi has been built by the Guwahati Metropolitan Development in memory of the martyrs of the freedom struggle.
The Chief Minister said that it was due to the sacrifices made by the martyrs of the freedom struggle that the country could attain freedom. The Indian freedom struggle was against the exploitation and injustice meted out by the British colonial rulers to the people of the country.
He regretted that even after attaining freedom, the problems of exploitation, discrimination, poverty, illiteracy and unemployment have been haunting the people of the country. It is the bounden duty of the people of the country to fight these problems out, he said. He also praised Nuruddin Ahmed, who built the altar.
Gogoi emphasised the need to ensure equal development of all sections of people for ushering in development.