“Whenever I see his photo on my phone, it breaks my heart,” said Popi Gogoi, a 38-year-old homemaker from Assam’s Jorhat district.
Gogoi was referring to Zubeen Garg, the beloved Assamese singer whose death by drowning in Singapore on September 19 plunged the state into mourning and led to massive protests.
The protests by young men and women were driven not just by grief. They also rippled with anger at the Himanta Biswa Sarma government, who was accused of shielding powerful people who had allegedly put Garg’s life at risk. The Congress, hoping to tap into this resentment, has made the singer’s death a poll issue and accused the Sarma government of a cover-up.
“As a woman, my heart bleeds for his wife,” Gogoi said.
Travelling through Upper Assam, as the eastern districts of the state are called, Scroll found voters like Gogoi bringing up the death of Zubeen Garg – often on their own – and ruing the lack of closure to the allegations that he was murdered. In the towns of Upper Assam, signboards and posters calling for “Justice for Zubeen da” crop up in front of colleges and are pasted on cars and buses.
Gogoi, too, believes that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government ought to have delivered...
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