Akhil Gogoi is an Indian peasant leader, RTI activist, and Member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Sibsagar since 2021.
14 Facts About Akhil Gogoi
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Akhil Gogoi is the founder and president of Raijor Dal since 2020.
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Akhil Gogoi is the founder Secretary of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti - a peasant organisation based in Assam.
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Akhil Gogoi served as the general secretary and magazine secretary of the college students union.
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Akhil Gogoi is married to Geetashree Tamuly, with whom he has a son Nachiketa.
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From mid-2009, Akhil Gogoi had led a statewide movement against construction of big dams in the ecologically sensitive regions of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
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In December 2011, huge number of anti-big dam protestors led by Akhil Gogoi stopped trucks transporting parts of turbines to the Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Power Project site in Gerukamukh, Lakhimpur district, thereby significantly slowing down the process of construction of the dam for the next many years.
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In 2014 Akhil Gogoi initiated a campaign against land mafia in Assam, who had appropriated thousand of acres of agricultural land in rural Kamrup district, adjoining Guwahati city, from poor farmers.
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Akhil Gogoi challenged the report and dared the Assam government to prove the allegation.
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NIA alleged that the Citizenship Amendment Act Protests in the state reeks of a Maoist conspiracy and it is likely that Mr Akhil Gogoi received training from the CPI-Maoist, in leading such a militant mass movement.
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From prison, Akhil Gogoi launched his own political outfit Raijor Dal on 2 October 2020.
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Akhil Gogoi won from the Sivasagar constituency in the Assam Assembly Elections 2021.
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Akhil Gogoi received 57219 votes out of the total of 124219 votes defeating nearest candidate Surabhi Rajkonwari of BJP by a margin of 11,875 votes.
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Akhil Gogoi became the first Assamese person to get a victory in assembly elections from jail without any campaigning.