Modi urged to name bridge after Siu-ka-pha

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to inaugurate the new bridge over the Brahmaputra river at Bogibeel on December 25, calls have arisen for it to be named after the founder of the Ahom Kingdom of Assam, Chaolung Siu-ka-pha.

In a memorandum to Modi on Monday, the Dibrugarh District Committee of the All Assam Ahom Sabha stated that the bridge should be named after Siu-ka-pha, who it described as “the founder of Bor Axom (composite Assam) or the Seven Sisters and the Axomiya society.”