Guwahati, Oct 25 (PTI) Deputy Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing deep concern over the ongoing administrative and institutional crisis at Tezpur University in Assam.

A delegation of the university teachers' association and student leaders had met the Congress MP and presented him with documented concerns and had requested his immediate support. Tezpur University is a central university.

In his letter to the Prime Minister on Thursday, Gogoi emphasised that Tezpur University -- established under the historic Assam Accord -- has long served as a premier centre of higher education and innovation in the Northeast.

He stressed that the recent controversies demand urgent attention from the highest levels of government.

The lett

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