Overview
- Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma lit the Swahid Pranam Jyoti and opened the memorial on Swahid Diwas at Paschim Boragaon, Guwahati.
- The complex, reported at over Rs 170 crore on roughly 150 bighas, includes a 55‑metre statue, a digital library on the 1979–1985 agitation, and hundreds of busts.
- Officials say the site honours more than 850 people who died in the Assam Movement, with Khargeswar Talukdar remembered as the first martyr.
- Sarma said photographs are missing for about 400 martyrs, so empty spaces have been left and a project will recreate portraits based on family descriptions.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute on Swahid Diwas, while the state broadcast the ceremony across districts with a simultaneous performance of Swahid Pranamu Tumak.