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KMSS dharna in Sarupeta

By Jintul Talukdar |

Hundreds of KMSS activists staged demonstration in front of the Sarupeta outpost on Monday in protest against police excess on their fellows in Guwahati on Monday. They further raised slogans demanding land patta for the landless lot in Bajali subdivision.   

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