Guwahati, Nov 29: Among the 41 rescued workers from the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand, two workers are from Assam’s Kokrajhar district.

The rescued trapped Assam workers are Sanjay Basumatary and Ram Prasad Narzary. The family members of both Basumatary and Narzary expressed their happiness after their rescue from the tunnel in Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand.

Ram Prasad Narzary’s father Upen Narzary said that during the past 16 days they performed puja and offered prayers in all the temples and worshiping places in Kokrajhar district.

Both Sanjay Basumatary and Ram Prasad Narzary, immediately after their rescue, talked to their family members over phone from the Silkyara tunnel site.

After the rescue of the workers, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a series of posts on the X, formerly twitter, thanked the Central government and other agencies which were involved in the challenging mega rescue operations.

“This also brings me personal relief as with the blessings of Maa Kamakhya, two of our own brothers from Kokrajhar Ram Prasad Narzary and Sanjay Basumatary have also come out safely. We were constantly in touch with their families through this ordeal,” Sarma said in one of the posts.

This also brings me personal relief as with the blessings of Maa Kamakhya, two of our own brothers from Kokrajhar – Ram Prasad Narzary and Sanjay Basumatary have also come out safely.

We were constantly in touch with their families through this ordeal.

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— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) November 28, 2023

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