GUWAHATI, July 4 � Tributes were paid to the martyrs of the Bhasa Andolan, which included remembrance of Ranjit Barpujari of Cotton College, who was killed in police firing on July 4, 1960 at a sombre function held on the bank of Dighali Pukhuri today.
Organised by All Kamrup District Students� Union along with All Guwahati Students� Union and others, several eminent personalities including litterateur Bisheswar Hazarika attended the programme. He described the details of the mass movement that had taken place to promote the use of local language in Assam. In his speech, AASU adviser Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya said that leaders of all political parties in Assam should apologise for their failure to implement the State Language Act and mentioned that more cooperation was required for the growth and development of indigenous languages of the region.
GUWAHATI, July 4 � Tributes were paid to the martyrs of the Bhasa Andolan, which included remembrance of Ranjit Barpujari of Cotton College, who was killed in police firing on July 4, 1960 at a sombre function held on the bank of Dighali Pukhuri today.
Organised by All Kamrup District Students� Union along with All Guwahati Students� Union and others, several eminent personalities including litterateur Bisheswar Hazarika attended the programme. He described the details of the mass movement that had taken place to promote the use of local language in Assam. In his speech, AASU adviser Dr Samujjal Bhattacharya said that leaders of all political parties in Assam should apologise for their failure to implement the State Language Act and mentioned that more cooperation was required for the growth and development of indigenous languages of the region.
