Sivasagar: Priyada Gogoi is 84 years old and has many ailments, but she is walking the narrow lanes on a campaign trail amidst all the hullabaloo of Assembly polls in Assam for the last 10 days only to free her son -- Akhil Gogoi.
Moved by her determination, social activists Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey have also joined her from Wednesday to campaign for the jailed anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act leader, who is contesting from the Sivasagar constituency.
The Sivasagar constituency, from where Gogoi is contesting is going for polls in the first phase on March 27.
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Akhil Gogoi in December 2019 for his alleged role in violent anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests across the state.
Akhil who leads the Kriahak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) has floated a new political party to contest the assembly polls in Assam christened as Raijor Dal (meaning Peoples' Party in Assamese).
Priyada Gogoi, who hails from Selenghat in neighbouring Jorhat district, has been camping in Sivasagar district for the last seven days and leading the campaigning of Raijor Dal, the newly floated political outfit of her son.
Raijor Dal took out a huge procession of thousands of sympathisers in Sivasagar on Wednesday, bringing life to a complete standstill in this historic town, in support of their candidate Akhil Gogoi.