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Our Bharat without The Northeast Looks like this.
Nehru & Abul Kalam Azad were ready to Merge it with East Pakistan.
One Congressman went against party line.
Remembering #GopinathBordoloi, the savior of Assam and arguably entire NorthEast.
#Jayanti
If you are not in
Nehru & Abul Kalam Azad were ready to Merge it with East Pakistan.
One Congressman went against party line.
Remembering #GopinathBordoloi, the savior of Assam and arguably entire NorthEast.
#Jayanti
If you are not in
good books of Nehru Dynasty, then you are wiped out of history..
It took Vajpayee govt to recognise and award Bharataratna for the 1st CM of Assam.
Gopinath was born at Assam in 1890 and after completing his masters from Kolkata returned back to Guwhati & started practicing
It took Vajpayee govt to recognise and award Bharataratna for the 1st CM of Assam.
Gopinath was born at Assam in 1890 and after completing his masters from Kolkata returned back to Guwhati & started practicing
law in 1917.
His years at Calcutta & association with Anushilan Samithi & also Tagore molded him for the greater cause of independence..
In 1921, Congress established INCAssam (Until then Assamese had to visit Calcutta) Gopinath joined as a member, his active participation in
His years at Calcutta & association with Anushilan Samithi & also Tagore molded him for the greater cause of independence..
In 1921, Congress established INCAssam (Until then Assamese had to visit Calcutta) Gopinath joined as a member, his active participation in
It took Vajpayee govt to recognise and award Bharataratna for the 1st Congress CM of Assam.
Remembering #GopinathBordoloi, the savior of Assam and arguably entire NorthEast from falling into the hands of East Pakistan, on his janmadivas.
For a pre-Independence Congressman,
Remembering #GopinathBordoloi, the savior of Assam and arguably entire NorthEast from falling into the hands of East Pakistan, on his janmadivas.
For a pre-Independence Congressman,
it was unimaginable to go against party icons such as Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. But Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi, the undisputed leader of Assam, did an act of insubordination to save his own state from the Grouping system of the Cabinet Mission.
Acceptance of
Acceptance of
the plan would have meant Assam’s merger with East Pakistan after Partition. Bordoloi forcefully protested, though he got little support except from two Bengal leaders—Congressman Sarat Chandra Bose & Jana Sangh founder S P Mookerjee. It was eventually at Subhash Chandra Bose's
