NIA offered bail, ministry for joining BJP: Activist Gogoi

Guwahati, March 23

Anti-CAA activist Akhil Gogoi, in a letter from jail on Tuesday, alleged physical and mental torture in custody and claimed he was offered instant bail by NIA interrogators if he joined either the RSS or the BJP.

The letter released by Gogoi’s newly floated political outfit Raijor Dal said the peasant leader was taken to Delhi on December 18, 2019, without the court’s permission.

During interrogation, the NIA officials offered him instant bail if he joined the RSS or the BJP, the letter claimed. “They said I could contest the Assembly polls against a vacant seat and become a minister,” Gogoi claimed.

The RTI activist alleged he was offered Rs 20 crore to start an NGO by leaving the peasant body, Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, and work against conversion of Assamese people into Christianity. “When I did not accept any of their proposals, they offered me a meeting with the CM and an influential Assam minister. I turned down that too,” Gogoi said. — PTI