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Nagen Bora passes away

By Akshaya Pranab Kalita |

Namrup:  A pioneer of the Assam Movement and founder of Assam Yuba Chatra  Parishad Namrup Regional Committee, Nagen Bora breathed his last at his own residence here in Namrup on Sunday due to old age ailments. He was 82 and left behind his wife, two son and three daughters.  Actively associated with a number of socio-political organizations of Namrup, Bora was sent to prison on a number of occasions during the Assam agitation.

His death was widely mourned.

 

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