• Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal unveiled a life-size statue of Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbaroa at the Assam House complex located at Russel Street in Kolkata.
• The statue has been installed through a joint initiative by the cultural affairs and the general administration departments of the Assam government.
• The life-size statue of the Sahityarathi is expected give a new impetus to literary, cultural and people-to-people relations between Assam and West Bengal.
• Bezbaroa created many of his literary works while in Kolkata and that the statue would help the young generation to know more about the literary doyen. 

Lakshminath Bezbaroa?

• Lakshminath Bezbaroa  was an Indian poet, novelist and playwright of modern Assamese Literature. He was one of the literary stalwarts of the Jonaki era, the age of romanticism in Assamese Literature when through his essays, plays, fiction, poetry and satires, he gave a new impetus to the then stagnating Assamese literary caravan.^[1]
• He responded to the prevailing social environment through his satirical works to bring and sustain positive changes to the former. His literature reflected the deeper urges of the people of Assam.