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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Mukunda Kakati<br />
| image = File:Bronze statues of Swahid Kanaklata and Mukunda Kakati in front of Gohpur police station where they were shot dead.jpg<br />
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| caption = Bronze statues of Swahid Kanaklata and Mukunda Kakati in front of Gohpur police station where they were shot dead<br />
| native_name = <br />
| native_name_lang = Assam<br />
| other_names = Mukund<br />
| birth_date = March 1919<br />
| birth_place = [[Nalbari]], [[Kamrup region|Kamrup]] ([[British Raj|British India]])<br />
| death_date = 20 September, 1942<br />
| death_place = [[Gohpur]]<br />
| death_cause = Shot by police<br />
| movement = [[Indian independence movement]]<br />
| mother = <br />
| father = <br />
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'''Mukunda Kakati''' (1919-1942) was an Indian revolutionary who participated [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s [[Quit India Movement]] and was shot dead by officers of the [[Indian Imperial Police]] in Gohpur Police Station on 20 September 1942.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 October 2021|title=Mukunda Kakati remembered|url=https://assamtribune.com/mukunda-kakati-remembered|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001091656/https://assamtribune.com/mukunda-kakati-remembered|archive-date=1 October 2021|website=The Assam Tribune}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Chopra|first=Pran Nath|title=Who's who of Indian Martyrs, Volume 2|publisher=Ministry of Education and Youth Services, Government of India|year=1969|isbn=9788123021805|pages=1933}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bakshi |first=Shiri Ram |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Contemporary_Political_Leadership_in_Ind/L1i51KFUyzIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Mukunda+Kakati&pg=PA161&printsec=frontcover |title=Contemporary Political Leadership in India: Sharad Pawar, the Maratha legacy |last2=Sharma |first2=Sita Ram |last3=Gajrani |first3=S. |page=161 |date=1998 |publisher=APH Publishing |isbn=978-81-7648-008-6 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
On 20 September 1942, the Mrityu Bahini, a death squad comprising groups of youth from the [[Gohpur]] sub-division of Assam, decided that independence activist [[Kanaklata Barua]] would hoist the nationalist flag at the local police station. Barua led a procession of unarmed villagers to do so. The police under Rebati Mahan Som, the officer in charge of the police station, warned the procession of dire consequences if they proceeded with their plan. Even after the warning, the procession continued marching ahead when the police fired upon the procession. Barua was shot and the flag she was carrying with her was taken up by Mukunda Kakoti who too was shot at. Both Barua and Kakoti were killed in the police action.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Assam (India) |title=Assam District Gazetteers |publisher=Govt. of Assam |year=1967 |volume=2 |location=Shillong |pages=86 |language=English}}</ref><br />
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== Commemoration ==<br />
In [[Gohpur]], there is a tank named Borpukhuri which was named for Mukunda Kakati and Kanaklata Baruah.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bhattacharya |first=Prasanta |title=Tourism in Assam : Trend and Potentialities |publisher=Bani Mandir |year=2004 |location=Guwahati |pages=260 |language=English}}</ref><br />
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In 1994, the Assam State Government named Nalbari Civil Hospital as 'Swahid Mukunda Kakati Civil Hospital' honouring Mukunda Kakati's sacrifice.<ref>{{Cite web|date=14 October 2021|title=SMK CIVIL HOSPITAL|url=http://nalbari.nic.in/files/departments_pdf_files/Health/office_of_the_superintendent_smk_civil_hospital.pdf}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1919 births]]<br />
[[Category:1942 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Quit India Movement]]<br />
[[Category:People killed by law enforcement officers]]<br />
[[Category:People from Nalbari]]</div>Twyla48W587323