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NEVER ENDING STRUGGLE OF ACCEPTANCE OF BENGALI LANGUAGE IN ASSAM 

Bidhayak Das Purkayastha

Recently, the comment of a senior BJP leader, the Minister of State for Railways, Sri Rajen Gohain, on Bengalis and their language has irked the denizens of Barak Valley.

It reminded them of the grim situation, way back in 1961, when eleven language martyrs sacrificed their lives for the cause of Bengali Language; against the brazen motive of the Assam Government, making Assamese as the one and only regional and official language of Assam, including Barak Valley, whose majority population are Bengali speaking

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