Jatin Das,one of the associates of martyr Bhagat Singh staged hunger strike for eighty four days behind bars of the colonial regime.It has been considered the longest hunger strike in India.The anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare, demanding strong ombudsman,staged hunger strike for thirteen days in last summer.Now Akhil Gogoi,peasant leader as well as RTI activist, protesting against the construction of big dam in lower Subanshiri, has been taking indefinite hunger strike.After three days of his protest he fell sick and the doctor attending to him said his blood pressure is alarmingly low.On the otherhand nobody,from the state government takes initiative to upend the peasant leader’ strike unlike Anna Hazare.Meanwhile,Team Anna led by Gandhian Hazare,has extended support to Akhil Gogoi.At the time of Hazare’ strike, though it was literally a conspiracy to restrict the process of establishment of an effective anti-corruption mechanism, all the senior union minister including the congress spokesperson,Manish Tiwari strived to find a solution to the issue.But now Tarun Gogoi led state government shows no interest to the cause of the peasant leader leading the deterioration of the situation of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts of North Assam.Government of Assam,though it is quite impossible, strives to handle the situation with iron hands.Already the police have arrested three anti dam protesters from Lakhimpur district.Before that the police allegedly had brutally assaulted the anti-dam protesters on the mid- night of 18 May.Protesting the police atrocities,the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti had called on a stir of the two districts on the following day and at last the peasant leader resolved to sit in indefinite hunger strike.
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