Swahid Mukunda Boro’s only surviving kin yet to get promised house

MANGALDAI: The leaders of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and the regional political party, Asom Gana Parishad, often say that the supreme sacrifice offered by the Martyrs of the historic Assam Movement would not be allowed to go in vain. In all spheres, be it the implementation of the Assam Accord or in matters related to the interest of the entire Asomiya, the sacrifice of these martyrs must be given due honour.

But are these leaders aware of the status of the family members of the Martyrs or Swahid of the Assam Movement, that rocked the entire state from 1979 to 1985, until the signing of the Assam Accord? Though 44 years have passed, a family member of a Jatiya Swahid, who has been spending her days in a cowshed-like shed, is still crying for a dwelling house!

As per the official record of All Assam Students Union (AASU), a youth belonging to the Bodo community from village Tezialpara under Kalaigaon Police Station in the Darrang district (now in Udalguri district) and a Pre-university (Arts) student of Mangaldai College attained the martyrdom on November 27 of 1979 in a tragic road accident while he was coming to join the first mass rally at Gandhi Maidan here in Mangaldai, jointly organised by the Mangaldai District Students’ Union and Zila Gana Sangram Parishad and presided over by eminent freedom fighter and president of Mangaldai Zila Gana Sangram Parishad

Pani Ram Das. And in that rally, the leaders of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) had declared him to be the first Martyr of the Assam Movement in the Darrang district. He is none other than Swahid Mukunda Boro, the only son of village farmer Saba Ram Boro and village housewife Lateswari Boro of village Tezialpara near Kalaigaon.

It needs special mention here that Kiran Boro, the younger sister of Swahid Mukunda Boro, who is the only living family member of Swahid Mukunda Boro, has personally constructed a bust of the Swahid in her residence from the amount she received from the State Government as the financial relief and was unveiled in 2017. But she has failed to get a dwelling house to pass her days, in spite of the promises made by political leaders. Mention may be made here that in 2016 the then Executive Member of BTC from Mudoibari constituency Jagadish Sarkar made an assurance to provide her a dwelling house under the government scheme, but that promise has also failed to see the light of day!

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