Akhil Gogoi’s imprisonment planned to keep him off public view during election: Yogendra Yadav

Rights activist Yogendra Yadav has said the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Assam government had planned peasant rights activist Akhil Gogoi’s imprisonment in order to keep him off public view during the Assembly election.

Mr. Yadav and Samajwadi Party leader Sunilam visited the jailed leader, also the president of the newly-floated Raijor Dal, at the Guwahati Medical College and Hospital on Sunday. “It is the misfortune of this country that people who should be in jail are roaming free while a few who should be free are rotting in jails. Akhil Gogoi’s is not a criminal trial, it is a political trial planned well ahead in order to prevent him from addressing the people during the election,” Mr. Yadav told journalists the hospital.