KMSS rally to protest attack on Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi

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Press Trust of India Guwahati
Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 2:11 AM IST

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 he 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 today 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 a huge contingent of police force deployed there 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.

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Gogoi was attacked when he had gone to Nalbari to survey flooded 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.

  

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