STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: Sadou Asom Goria-Moria-Deshi Jatiya Parishad has appealed to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to constitute a high-level research committee with academicians of repute to research and publish a research paper on Ismail Siddique alias Bagh Hazarika.
The popular belief goes that Ismail Siddique alias Bagh Hazarika was the second in command to Ahom General Lachit Barphukan in the Battle of Saraighat.
Addressing a state convention of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Guwahati, the Chief Minister said that Bagh Hazarika was a 'fictional character'.
Parishad's working president Nurul Haque said, "The high-level committee of researchers should comprise historians of repute from universities and colleges to study the existence of Bagh Hazarika to unearth the truth based on primary and secondary data. And let the government publish a research paper on Bagh Hazarika."
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