Himanta Biswa Sarma paid tribute to victims of the 2008 Assam serial blasts. He vowed the state would remain peaceful and prosperous in the coming years.Stock photo used for illustrationGuwahati,Oct 30, 2026 16:32 ISTAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday paid tribute to the victims of the 2008 serial blasts that killed 88 people, calling the attacks one of the darkest chapters in the state’s history, news agency Press Trust of India reported.Sarma said Assam would never return to those days and would remain a peaceful and prosperous state.Nine blasts were carried out on October 30, 2008, by the Ranjan Daimary faction of the militant group National Democratic Front of Bodoland.
Three explosions each took place in Guwahati and Kokrajhar, two in Barpeta Road and one in Bongaigaon, killing 88 people and injuring more than 500, according to PTI.“On this solemn day, I remember the victims of the October 30 serial bomb blasts which rocked Guwahati,” Sarma said in a social media post. Paying tribute to the victims, he said, “I can never forget that fateful day which shook the collective conscience of our nation and is one of the darkest chapters in Assam’s history.”The chief minister said Assam “shall never return to those days and ensure that Assam remains a peaceful and prosperous state in the years to come”.
A special CBI court convicted 15 people in the case in January 2019. Ten of them, including Daimary, were sentenced to life imprisonment, PTI reported.Daimary was arrested in Bangladesh in 2010 and lodged in Guwahati Central Jail after being handed over to India.
In September 2022, the Gauhati High Court upheld the life sentences given to Daimary and six of his accomplices while acquitting four others in the serial blasts case.The 2008 attacks killed 88 people and injured more than 500, while the courts later sentenced Daimary and several others to life imprisonment.- Ends