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AASU leaders slam Tarun Gogoi for commenting 'RSS behind 80s' students agitation'

Edit Zeenews 18 Apr 2016
Besides strong reactions from present and past AASU leaders, others have also expressed their reservations, saying that the people of Assam had spent from their own pockets to keep the movement going ... ....

Assam CM: RSS tried to divide voters on ethnic lines

Edit The Times of India 17 Apr 2016
"The movement by the All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) was initially a movement against outsiders ... When Aasu leaders were jailed, RSS supplied them with food. The RSS chief Rajendra Singh had not supported the Assam Accord that the Congress government signed with Aasu leadership," Gogoi said ... "But I'm happy the Aasu leadership has opposed Sarma," he added....

Will decide after 2 years whether to continue in office: Gogoi

Edit Deccan Herald 17 Apr 2016
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who has declared that the current assembly elections as his last, will decide whether to continue in office after two years if he is elected again. "After two years, I will take a decision on how I will continue in the party ... Accordingly, I will take my next step," Gogoi told PTI in an interview ... "I will not fight the next election ... "BJP's most of the leaders had come from AASU and AGP background ... ....

I have not violated the Model Code: Tarun Gogoi

Edit DNA India 16 Apr 2016
--> ... "I have not violated the Model Code. I have not asked voters to vote for us ... AASU was getting all funds and other helps for agitators from RSS," Gogoi alleged. He appreciated AASU's current leadership for opposing BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma's reported statement of shifting the base year for updating the National Register of Citizens and deporting "infiltrators" should be shifted from 1971 to 1951 ... ....

Violence Mars NUGS/AASU Elections

Edit Peace FM Online 13 Apr 2016
An emergency congress to elect a representative for All Africa Students’ Union (AASU) by the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) over the weekend turned violent ... Adams, Peter Kwasi Kodjie and Innocent Badasu had filed to run as NUGS’s representative of AASU. And any of these gentlemen would have contested other representatives from other countries to become the secretary general of AASU if that person was given the nod....

At 103, Keshab Bordolaye first at the booth with claim of being India’s oldest

Edit Indian Express 12 Apr 2016
Bordolaye in Dispur,. Keshab Chandra Bordolaye, 103, a physician of the pre-MBBS era, voted “for change” Monday and warned the next government in Assam —“I hope a new government is elected” — to keep in mind the issue of Bangladeshi influx in mind while running the state”. “I have voted for change ... I still remember the day I cast my first vote ... I did defy the AASU call to boycott the election, but I voted against the Congress.”....

Nellie survivors vote to heal 1983 scars

Edit The Times of India 11 Apr 2016
Nellie (Morigaon). The sleepy Borburi village in central Assam's Morigaon district wears a festive look ... The excitement among villagers, too, is palpable ... They were killed by a mob during the height of the anti-foreigner movement led by All Assam Students' Union (Aasu). The attackers, angered by the alleged encroachment of their land by immigrants from erstwhile East Pakistan, were mostly Aasu-backed tribals ... ....

Jhalmuri wallah to perfume baron to filmmaker

Edit Indian Express 11 Apr 2016
[From left to right] Jhalmuri wallah Baharul Sheikh, perfume baron Ajmal and Filmmaker and actress Bobbeeta SharmaThey may look like a motley group — jhalmuri wallah Baharul Sheikh, IIM-Ahmedabad graduate Prodyut Kumar Bora, filmmaker Bobbeeta Sarma, perfume baron Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, former ULFA militant Suresh Bora, former AASU president Sankar Prasad Roy and POCSO accused Gopinath Das....

Over to Assam’s Muslim voter today

Edit Indian Express 11 Apr 2016
Polling and security personnel ferry EVMs across to a remote polling station in Palashbari Sunday. (Source. Express photo by Dasarath Deka). As Assam closes polling on Monday, the big question is ... Read More ... Amit Shah ... Muslims, who comprise 34 per cent of the population, were voting largely for the Congress except in 1985 when many went for the United Minorities Front of Assam, formed after Rajiv Gandhi signed the Assam Accord with AASU....

Barhampur only ray of hope for 'fading' star

Edit The Times of India 09 Apr 2016
Barhampur (Nagaon). The main road that connects Barhampur with NH-37, which is in the process of being upgraded as Asian Highway 1, hasn't seen repair for years now ... The agitation culminated in signing of the Assam Accord between the student leaders and the Centre in 1985 ... Mahanta had led the movement as president of All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) ... But the euphoria started to fizzle out soon ... In 2008, he merged his party with AGP again....

AGP, the elephant in the room

Edit Deccan Herald 09 Apr 2016
The BJP’s rainbow alliance perhaps would not have looked so complete until the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) joined it ... But allying with the BJP might help it regain lost ground ... In fact, Mahanta burst into the political scene in Assam and took the entire state along with him when he, along with a dozen young student leaders of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), led a widespread anti-foreigner agitation ... The downfall ... ....

In ‘migrant’ settlement, politics changes, life remains the same

Edit Indian Express 07 Apr 2016
Youthful Assam turnout raises BJP hopes, Congress confident too In Assam, BJP beats Congress with tickets to imports Congress list has former AGP, AASU, ULFA members Assam ... This was where the AASU movement of 1979-85 against Bangladeshi influx had taken off; a revision of rolls for a bypoll to Mangaldoi Lok Sabha seat in 1978 had detected found a sudden increase of several thousand people in Sipajhar and Mangaldoi segments....

Student leaders hone skills to take election test

Edit The Times of India 06 Apr 2016
Guwahati ... Former Aasu president Shankar Prasad Ray and ex-All Koch-Rajbongshi Students' Union (AKRSU) chief Biswajit Ray are contesting in the election from Bongaigaon and Bijni constituencies respectively ... Shankar was the AASU president for a decade since 2005 ... Shankar differs ... It is a communal party ... Also in the fray is former AASU general secretary Tapan Kumar Gogoi, contesting from Sonari constituency on a BJP ticket. ....
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