Guwahati: Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) activists on Sunday held a rally here amidst tight security protesting the attack on their Secretary General Akhil Gogoi in Nalbari on Friday last.
Hundreds of KMSS activists gathered at Gorchuk area on the outskirts of the city and held a rally demanding immediate arrest of the culprits involved in the attack on Gogoi.
The RTI activist had alleged that Gogoi was attacked by Congress workers and the police has arrested a panchayat member in this connection.
“The police has arrested only one person so far but five others mentioned in the FIR are yet to be picked up,” KMSS spokesperson Sabita Lahkar said.
The rally had been planned to be held on Sunday and was scheduled to be addressed by Gogoi but following the attack on him it was changed to a protest meeting, Lahkar added.
Tight security measures were taken in the area with huge contingent of police force deployed in the area to prevent any untoward incident, official sources said.
Protests were held in other parts of the state also, including Nalbari, with KMSS activists burning the effigy of Agriculture Minister Nilamoni Sen Deka who Gogoi alleged was behind the attack.
Gogoi was attacked on Friday last while he had gone to survey flood village in Punni village under Dharampur assembly constituency, represented by the Agriculture minister.
Gogoi, who sustained injury on his face and waist, was undergoing treatment in the Nalbari Swahid Mukunda Kakati civil hospital.
It may be mentioned that Akhil Gogoi was seriously injured when he was allegedly assaulted by a group of Youth Congress members at Chamota in flood-affected Nalbari district of Assam on Friday.
The KMSS leader, who also spearheads the movement against mega dam in Assam, was on way to call on some flood-hit people in the area when goons coming on motorcycles pounced upon his hired vehicle and beaten him up black and blue.
He had received serious injuries in the waist and head before he was rescued by local villagers from the clutches of goons.
He was rushed to Nalbari Civil Hospital by the people. (PTI)