{"id":38797,"date":"2021-03-16T04:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=38797"},"modified":"2021-03-16T04:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:52:05","slug":"pm-slammed-for-calling-17th-century-ahom-general-lachit-borphukan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/pm-slammed-for-calling-17th-century-ahom-general-lachit-borphukan\/","title":{"rendered":"PM slammed for calling 17th century Ahom general Lachit Borphukan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The opposition parties in poll-bound Assam have slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for referring to 17th century Ahom general Lachit Borphukan as a freedom fighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lachit Borphukan (1622 &#8211; 1672) was a commander and Borphukan (Phu-Kon-Lung) in the Ahom kingdom, located in present-day Assam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is known for his leadership in the 1671 Battle of Saraighat that thwarted a drawn-out attempt by Mughal forces under the command of Ramsingh I to take over Ahom kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 24 November each year Lachit Divas (Lachit Day) is celebrated state-wide in Assam to commemorate the heroism of Lachit Borphukan and the victory of the Assamese army at the Battle of Saraighat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best passing out cadet of National Defence Academy is conferred the Lachit Borphukan gold medal every year from 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition parties in poll-bound Assam have slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for referring to 17th century Ahom general Lachit Borphukan as a freedom fighter. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Lachit Borphukan (1622 &#8211; 1672) was a commander and Borphukan (Phu-Kon-Lung) in the Ahom kingdom, located in present-day Assam. He is known for his leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":38798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[99],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-38797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2021","tag-days-events-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38799,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797\/revisions\/38799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38797"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=38797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}