SWAHID DIWAS

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• Assam has been paying tribute to the martyrs who had made supreme sacrifice in the historic Assam Movement from 1979 to 1985.
  
  
• The Assam Movement (1979-1985) was an popular uprising in Assam, that demanded the Government of India to detect illegal immigrants, delete their names from electoral rolls and deport them.
  
  
• The movement ended in 1985 with the Assam Accord.
  
  
• It was led by All Assam Students Union and All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad, an umbrella organization of different political groups. The agitation leaders formed a political party, Asom Gana Parishad. It came to power in the state of Assam in the Assembly elections of 1985 and later in 1996.