Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that the main objective of Assam Agitation was to make Assam free from illegal immigrants. In the six year long agitation people irrespective of all caste, creed, language and religion plunged into the movement. Several lives were lost and so many people sustained permanent injuries. In order to make Assam one of the front ranking states in the country, the present State government for the last 2 years and 10 months has been working resolutely implementing all the clauses of the Assam Accord.
Speaking at a function organized by Assam Accord Implementation Department to pay
honour to those persons who sustained injuries during Assam Agitation or their family members
at Maniram Dewan Trade Centre in the city today, Chief Minister Sonowal said that to expedite
the rate of development of the state, Central Government under the leadership of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has attached tremendous importance.
He also said that one of the most important clauses of Assam Accord is to seal the border completely. The previous governments did not take any pragmatic steps to seal the border. However, realising that without land swapping deal complete sealing off the border is not possible, the Modi-led Central Government executed the land swap deal in 2014 and took steps to completely seal 272 KM Indo-Bangla border. He also said that the present Central government took the help of technology to seal the 61 km riverine border.