GUWAHATI: The first death anniversary of longest-serving chief minister Tarun Gogoi who passed away last year on the same date at Gauhati Medical College and hospital at the age of 86.
Gogoi was suffering from multiple post-COVID problems in the months leading up to his death. Thousands of people in the state were heartbroken by his passing, and the large throngs that gathered for his state-sponsored funeral testified to his popularity. Gogoi's ashes were scattered across the state, where he was revered by people of all faiths and communities.
Rangajan Tea Estate in the ancient Sivasagar district, which is now known as the Jorhat region of Assam, was where he was born on April 1, 1936, into an Assamese Tai-Ahom family.
Under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the former leader began his political career as a student organisation leader at Gauhati University and was later elected as Joint Secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in 1976. Since then, Gogoi has served six terms in the Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament (MP). Gogoi was back in court as a lawyer and took a batch of petitions challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
Tarun Gogoi, the former Chief Minister of Assam, received the Padma Bhushan award posthumously. At Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, his wife Dolly Gogoi accepted the award on his behalf from President of India Ram Nath Kovind.
He was cremated at the Nabagraha Cremation ground in Guwahati. And today, on his first death anniversary many remembered him offering their tribute to the veteran congress leader.
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