Union Home Minister Amit Shah praised Golap Borbora, Assam’s first non-Congress Chief Minister, as a visionary socialist leader and freedom fighter whose brief tenure marked a significant change in the state’s political history. Shah recalled Borbora’s courageous personal sacrifices, including 19 months of imprisonment during the Emergency. He highlighted Borbora’s landmark reforms such as making education free up to class 10 and establishing over 200 educational institutions in a year to help the poor access education. Shah also commended Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the current government for recognizing leaders like Borbora beyond traditional political affiliations. He linked Borbora’s voter list cleansing drive, which exposed nearly 37,000 illegal foreigners in 1978, to ongoing efforts under Prime Minister Modi’s demography mission aimed at identifying infiltrators and highlighted opposition parties’ resistance to such initiatives as moral degradation in politics.