Overview

• The state is commemorating the 100th birth anniversary of Golap Borbora with a formal programme that Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to attend as chief guest.
• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma posted a tribute praising Borbora’s courage, simplicity and dedication to the people of Assam.
• Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal lauded Borbora’s stand against the Emergency and his resistance to corruption and dynastic politics in a social media message.
• Coverage recaps Borbora’s tenure as Assam’s first non-Congress chief minister, leading a Janata Party government from March 12, 1978, to September 4, 1979, and his status as the first opposition-elected Rajya Sabha member from the state.
• Borbora’s son, Pankaj Borbora, thanked the government for the observance and asserted that his father’s 1978 intensive voter-list revision foreshadowed today’s Special Intensive Revision and first surfaced concerns over illegal migration.