Noted playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and filmmaker Jyoti Prasad Agarwala is popularly called the Rupkonwar of Assamese culture. The renaming of the locality is being seen as a tribute to him.The Nagaon DC said the area had been renamed as Roopkonwar Chowk respecting the sentiments of the people of the town.“The area has a bust of Rupkonwar Jyoti Prasad Agarwala. Various prominent organisations celebrate his birthday etc there. Keeping this in mind, a decision was made to rename the stretch as Roopkonwar Chowk,” he told journalists.Going back to history, he said in the last part of the 19th century when the British came, they needed skilled people to make biscuits, bind books, sew clothes etc. He said people from erstwhile East Bengal came to Jorhat and then to Nagaon. It was then that Nagaon got a locality by the name of Daccapatty, he added.Incidentally, Jorhat in eastern Assam also has a locality by the name of Daccapatty.
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