HT Correspondent
MARGHERITA, Dec 17: OBC employees Association of NFR has urged Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) to include Asom Divas as holiday in latter’s calendar.
In this regard, the Association submitted a memorandum to the general member of NFR Maligaon.
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The assistant general of NFR OBC employees Association Tinsukia Division Gonesh Gogoi said that Chaolung Sukapha who founded the Ahom kingdom that ruled for 6 centuries but unfortunately in NF Railway holiday calendar December 2 has not been included as holiday.
”On 2nd December 1228 AD he stepped into the largest Brahmaputra valley of Assam and began to form a largest Assamese nation with a sense of brotherhood, unity and harmony,” said Gogoi.
“Chaulung Sukapha is also known as the architect of Assam as renowned litterateur journalist and eminent intellectualist Padma Borkataki marked Chaolung Sukapha as the first Assamese as on December 2, 1228 AD Chaolung Sukapha stepped into the Brahmaputra valley of Assam and began to form a largest Assamese nation with a sense of harmony, brotherhood and unity as on this day, commemorates the arrival of the first Ahom king in Assam after crossing the Patkai Hills from Mong- Mao a kingdom in present day China,” Gogoi added.
He further said, Historically it has been proved that before the arrival of Chaolung Sukapha neither there was a land called Assam and nor a single nation known as Assamese and by tying all small ethnic groups with a sense of unity, Chaolung Sukapha set out to form the largest Assamese nation and successfully assimilated different communities and Tribes.
“Assam government has celebrated as Axom Divas and declared Holiday on 2nd December since 1996 to pay tribute and remember the ideology of this great king and his legacy,” Gogoi concluded.
