Guwahati: President Ram Nath Kovind, who is on a three-day visit to Assam from Friday, inaugurated the year-long celebrations of great Ahom general Lachit Barphukan’s 400th birth anniversary at an event here in Guwahati.
The President, who visited the Kamakhya temple earlier in the day after his arrival, also laid the foundation of war memorial of Alaboi battle at Dadara in Kamrup and the project of revamping the cremation ground of Lachit Barphukan in an area of 22 bighas near Jorhat in upper Assam.
Addressing the inauguration event at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, he said, “It is a historical coincidence that today, the third anniversary of the National War Memorial built in the memory of the valiant warriors of India is being celebrated in Delhi and today we are all here, in Assam, to celebrate the 400th birth anniversary of Lachit Barphukan, the brave son of Mother India.”