Overview
- Fans held a midnight vigil at Zubeen Garg’s Kahilipara home, where a bust was unveiled in the morning by his father Kapil Borthakur alongside his wife Garima Saikia Garg as crowds offered songs and tributes.
- Statewide programmes included BJP-run blood donation drives, an AGP observance of Jatiya Swabhiman Diwas with sapling planting, and a Congress evening event that also reiterated the party’s call for justice.
- AASU led multi-day cultural activities across districts, from art camps and cycle rallies to Nahor plantation drives, including 53 saplings at Hatsingimari and additional plantings reported in Kokrajhar and Sonapur Dimoria.
- Large gatherings were scheduled to sing ‘Mayabini,’ with a 1,000-singer chorus in Silchar, a Bijni event featuring 3,000 performers and a statue foundation-laying, and a Kokrajhar plan to submit a 25,000-person performance to the Asia Book of Records.
- Kokrajhar authorities prepared to lay the foundation for a Zubeen Garg Park with a statue, while memorial events at Zubeen Kshetra featured diya lighting, sky lanterns, devotional recitals and cultural performances, set against continued public focus on his September death in Singapore described in reports as mysterious.