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A letter from Niraj Sahay, Principal Chief Commercial Manager of the Northeast Frontier Railway, dated September 3, 2024, outlines that changes to railway station names require the recommendation of the state government and approval from the Ministry of Home Affairs

Earlier Congress demanded to rename the Silchar Railway Station in honor of the eleven language martyrs, or Bhasha Sahids of Silchar.

The last of the Kachari Kings, Raja Gobinda Chandra was assassinated by a group of seditious persons with the help of some of his personal attendents on April, 24, 1830 at Haritikar. In absence of natural heirs, his territory lapsed to the British under the terms of an agreement executed in 1826