CMSS, KMSS rally against transportation of construction

A protest rally was taken out by the Chatra Mukti Sangram Samity (CMSS) and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) today in Assam's Lakhimpur district to protest against transporting of construction material to the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power project built by the NHPC.
The organisations also submitted a memorandum to the Lakhimpur district Deputy Commissioner demanding immediate halt of the construction work at Gogamukh by the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation and release of five KMSS workers arrested on October 8.
The protesters asserted that the NHPC and the central government again restarted the construction works stopped earlier without a proper solution based on an expert committee report adversely affecting the people in the downstream areas.

KMSS central adviser Ajad Hazarika told PTI that earlier his organisation, during meetings with the Centre, had discussed that the construction work should be stopped without consulting the expert committee report, but the NHPC authority did not maintain it.
Hazarika also alleged on October 8 some miscreants had burnt a truck loaded with construction materials at Gerukamukh and "five KMSS workers were arrested without any basis and one of them tortured in police custody."
Lakhimpur Superintendent of Police Brajenjit Singha, however, said the five accused were arrested on the basis of evidence.