“Let my son’s sacrifice be a lesson to everyone. Secure your children’s future. If people don’t learn their lesson now, more mothers will keep losing their children,” Inna Maakan said.

Jamaat-e-Islami, the opposition to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), announced that it would boycott the cabinet’s oath ceremony.

Senior Assam leader Bhupen Borah, who has quit the Congress, will stand by his decision and will join the BJP on February 22, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said.