Assam-Meghalaya border: Lumpi celebrates Rongali Bihu

The people of the area named it ‘The Bihu of the border’ as the location is situated along the Assam-Meghalaya border under Kamrup district’s Boko revenue circle, reports East Mojo.

It is worth mentioning that the Lumpi area is popular with tourists as a hill station that is very near to Guwahati city (about 100 kilometres) and sometimes makes headlines for border disputes, the news portal reported.

Several traditional games, including the long jump, high jump, blindfold duck catching, and many other traditional games were held during the event.

President of the Bihu committee, Man Bahadur Thapa, and the Secretary, Suman Srish presided over the meeting.

Suman Srish, the Secretary, was quoted as saying by East Mojo, “The Lower Lumpi Border Out Post in-charge, Jini Saikia, and the Kamrup Police took the initiative to celebrate the Bihu festival.”

 his speech, Arjun Chetry said, “The Lumpi people have started a great initiative which might have been started before. But this will make future generations aware of our culture in Assam. Despite most of the people living in the Lumpi areas belonging to the Gorkha Community, we have been living here since before independence, so we know how to celebrate our culture well.”