Swahid Diwas 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid homage to the martyrs of the Assam Movement on Swahid Diwas on 10 December.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

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.