GUWAHATI, Nov 26 � Reiterating that the All Assam Students� Union (AASU) under the leadership of Samujjal Bhattacharya has been coercing business houses into �donating� money, the forum of ex-general secretaries of Gauhati University today said that the AASU adviser was audaciously trying to gain emotional support of the people by relating the matter with �Assamese self-pride�.
In a statement signed by Niren Deka and Pranjit Choudhury, the forum said that Bhattacharya was running the AASU like a dictator and was behaving in an incoherent manner following the expose of just �one of his many misdeeds�.
The forum said that Bhattacharya had no right to involve Assam and the entire community of Assamese people in his justification for donation, which actually is extortion.
�The AASU is a historic organization and Bhattacharya should desist from lowering its image by involving it in forceful donation,� the forum stated, informing that unlike what the AASU has claimed, a representative of Vishal Mega Mart had lodged an FIR(696/10 under Sec 143, 448, 506 of IPC) against some of the AASU members on October 27 with the Paltan Bazar police station.
