HT Digital,
Sivasagar, April 8: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Monday that the Maidams of Charaideo, burial mounds of Ahom royals, are expected to receive UNESCO World Heritage Site status by the end of the year.
He also praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment to Assam and encouraged the public to support him for a third term.
Sarma addressed an election rally at Charaideo and shared his past request to Modi for recommending the Maidams as India’s nomination for the UNESCO World Heritage site label.
He said that the Charaideo Maidams, representative of the late medieval mound burial tradition of the Tai Ahoms dynasty, will be part of the UNESCO World Heritage site by the end of this year.
Sarma stated that out of 386 Maidams explored so far, 90 royal burials at Charaideo are the best preserved examples of this tradition.
He also highlighted the special bond between PM Modi and Assam, citing Modi’s frequent use of the ‘gamusa’, an Assamese traditional scarf.
