English: 35-feet-high statue of Ahom general Lachit Borphukan in the middle of the Brahmaputra, was inaugurated by former chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday 31 January, 2016. The statue depicts the Battle of Saraighat of 1671 in which Lachit and his soldiers stopped the marauding Mughal army from invading the Ahom kingdom. It comprises a bronze statue of the general, eight 18-feet statues of soldiers and two 32-feet-long water canons. The soldiers and the cannons are made of fibre glass. The total size of the pedestal on which the statues rest is 12 by 12 by 1.5 meters and it stands on a well 8.5 meters wide. The main statue stands four feet above the pedestal while the soldiers are placed below Lachit.