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GUWAHATI: Congress legislature party leader Debabrata Saikia has written to chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal seeking his intervention to ensure central funds to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for the preservation of Charaideo Maidam are released. The centuries-old burial mounds of Ahom kings, included in Unesco's tentative list of world heritage sites, now face the threat of decay. Chariadeo was the first capital of the Ahom kingdom established by first Ahom king Chao Lung Siu-Ka Pha in the early 13th century . "The Charaideo Maidam was excavated in 2002 by the ASI. "Non-release of funds for the proposal has caused great resentment among the local people as Unesco has included the site in its tentative list of heritage sites," Saikia wrote in his letter to Sonowal..