Dear well-wishers, Here is a statement, readied for media release tomorrow. Youmay kindly endorse or simply ignore it.
Regards, Nava Thakuria, Guwahati (m) 98640 44917 Reopen Nabin Chandra Bordoloi Library: PPFA Guwahati: Patriotic Peoples’ Front Assam (PPFA), whilesupporting the public sentiment, urges the authority to reopen thehistoric Nabin Chandra Bordoloi hall cumlibrary (formerly Lord Curzon Hall) on the western bank of Dighalipukhuri forthe benefit of booklovers and common people. The forum pointed out that the century old structurewitnessed many historic events in the last century with the presence of most ofthe Assamese stalwarts and many national heroes like Rabindranath Tagore, PCRoy, Ashutosh Mukherjee, Subhash Chandra Bose, Joyprakash Narayan etc. “As the library is named after a great Assamese patriot,socio-political leader and writer, Karmavir Nabin Ch Bordoloi, we must pay duerespect to the institution. The Gauhati Municipal Corporation, which took over the hall in 1969 and decided torestore it, must not ended up revealing its apathy and negligence,” said a PPFAstatement. It also added that the GMC as well as Guwahati MetropolitanDevelopment Authority, Assam Tourism Development Corporation and CottonUniversity had separately proposed the government to shift the library frompresent location and hand over the plot to them, as everyone has plans todevelop the space according to their needs. “We oppose any move to shift the public library from thepresent location and demand to restore & reopen it for public at theearliest. Because we should not forget that it was an important part of India’sfreedom struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi, where Karmavir Bardoloi appealed to thestudents of Cotton College to join the freedom movement,” added the statement. Endorsed by Rupam Barua, Jagadindra Raychoudhury, AjayDutta, DN Chakravarty, Jaharal Saha, Kishor Giri, Anindita Choudhry, RumaBarua, Nava Thakuria, Anup Sarma, Pramod Kalita, Ujjal Saikia….
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