The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on December 10, 2020 paid homage to the martyrs of the Assam Movement on Swahid Diwas.
- In Assam, December 10 is marked as Swahid Diwas (Martyrs’ Day) to mark the death of Khargeswar Talukdar, the first person who was killed in the Assam agitation in 1979 in Bhabanipur.
- The Swahid Smarak and Swahid Udyan are being constructed in a 98 ‘bigha’ plot at Paschim Boragaon in Guwahati.
