10,000 diyas, 1 km human chain to welcome Home Minister Amit Shah in Guwahati

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, State BJP president Ranjit Dass, BJP National Vice President, Baijayant Jay Panda along with other party leaders will welcome Home Minister Shah to Guwahati. This was said by the state's Finance, Health and Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma addressing a press meet at Janata Bhawan (Assam Secretariat), Guwahati on Friday evening.

The 1 KM road from the airport to the National Highway has been decorated with diyas, (Earthen lamp).Over 10 thousand diyas will be lit up to welcome him, and over three thousand artists from several communities of the state will welcome the Home Minister Amit Shah with Bihu, Tiwa, Rabha, Karbi, Bagurumba, and many other cultural programmes.

Home Minister Amit Shah will stay at Inspection Bunglow PWD Amingaon. 

The programmes of Home Minister Shah include the distribution of financial grants ranging from Rs 155 crore to 8,000 Namghars (the traditional Vaisnavite monasteries of Assam). The distribution of financial grants is being carried out under the Assam Darshan programme.

Shah will lay the foundation stones for the development of 'Batadrava Than' in Nagaon, Assam.

He will also lay the foundation stones for the Northeast's largest medical college in Guwahati.The Ceremonial programme for the establishment of the second Medical College of Guwahati will be held at Kumar Bhaskar Barman Kshetra, Amingaon, Guwahati on tomorrow (December 26).

And ten law colleges across the state - Tezpur, Diphu, Silchar, Rangia, Dibrugarh, North Lakhimpur, Raha, Bilasipara, Jorhat and Tihu, will come up.

On December 27 Shah will visit Imphal, Manipur.

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