A row over an apt name has hit the 4.94-km Bogibeel, India’s longest rail and road bridge, to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Christmas Day. Their demand: the bridge should be named after Chaolong Siu-ka-pha, who founded the Ahom kingdom in Assam more than 600 years ago. “Naming the bridge after Swargadeo [emperor] Chaolung Siu-ka-pha has been our demand for a long time. The Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Dibrugarh, Prashanta Phukan, wants the bridge to be named Atal Setu, after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Vajpayee had inaugurated the construction work of the bridge — connecting Dibrugarh and Dhemaji districts across the Brahmaputra — in 2002 though former Prime Minister H.D.

Source: The Hindu December 18, 2018 17:03 UTC