Biraj Kumar Sarma was an

Asom Gana Parishad Asom Gana Parishad (translation: ''Assam People's Council'', AGP) is a political party in the state of Assam, India. The AGP was formed following the historic Assam Accord of 1985 and formally launched at the Golaghat Convention held from 13 t ...

politician from

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. He was born 1948. He was popularly referred to as " the people's leader". Sarma was one of three representatives of the

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against illegal immigrants (1979–85) who signed the

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in presence of former Prime Minister

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. He was the general secretary of the

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(AAGSP) while the other two signatories —

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and Bhrigu Kumar Phukan — were leaders of the

All Assam Students’ Union All Assam Students' Union or AASU is an Assamese nationalist student's organization in Assam, India. It is best known for leading the six-year Assam Movement against Bengalis of both Indian and Bangladeshi origin living in Assam. The original le ...

(AASU). He was a front ranking leader of the six-year-long

Assam Movement The Assam Movement, also known as the Anti-Foreigners Agitation, was a popular uprising in Assam, India, from 1979 to 1985, that demanded the Government of India detect, disenfranchise and deport illegal alien (law), aliens.: "The citizenship ...

led by the All Assam Students Union from 1979 which had culminated in the signing of the Memorandum of Settlement (MoS)

in 1985 between AASU and representatives of central and Assam governments. Sarma had participated in the Assam Movement as an active member of Sadou Asom Gana Sangram Parishad and co-founded

(AGP), which was formed by the Assam agitation leaders in 1985. He was the general secretary of the party and later its vice-president. He remained with the AGP from its formation till his death and had represented Gauhati East assembly constituency twice. He had survived a gun attack on him by the proscribed

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(ULFA) in 1998. He was elected in

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election in 1985 and 1996 from Gauhati East constituency. He died on 15 January 2019 at the age of 70. At the time of death he was the adviser to the

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Associations, Guwahati, president to the UNA, Assam and the vice president of the Assam Gana Parishad.Assam: One of signatories of Assam Accord Biraj Kumar Sarma passes away
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