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All Tai Ahom Students Union

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All Tai Ahom Students' Union
Chom Hom Lik Hen Tai Ahom Tang Mung
AbbreviationATASU
Formation14–15 July 1988
FounderAmrit Kumar Chetia (Chief Adviser);

Promod Boruah (President);

Daya Krishna Gogoi (Working President);

Arun Gogoi (General Secretary);

Puspadhar Saikia (Assistant Secretary);

Tutumoni Gogoi (Organizing Secretary);

Dimbeswar Gogoi (Organizing Secretary);

Bhuban Gohain (Executive Member)
Founded atDholeBagan High Secondary,

Dholebagan

Sivasagar, Assam (IN)
TypeEthnic
Legal statusActive
PurposeSpearheading the demand of the Tai-Ahom people for being granted the Scheduled Tribe status to the Tai-Ahom people.
HeadquartersGuwahati, Assam (IN) and Sivasagar, Assam (IN)
Region
Assam (Northeast India)
Official language
Ahom language
President
Chao Milan Buragohain
Vice-President
chao manuj gogoi,
Joint Secreatary (General)
Chao Bhaskarjyoti Borgohain , Achyut Borgohain
Martyr
Damchao Dimbeswar Gogoi (Killed on: 3-November-1989); Founder Organizing Secretary
Websitehttps://sites.google.com/site/alltaiahomstudentsunion

All Tai Ahom Students Union (ATASU) or Chom Hom Lik Hen Tai Ahom Tang Mung in Ahom language is a students' union in Assam, India.[1]

History

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All Tai Ahom Students Union or ATASU is a students' organization in Assam, India founded in 14–15 July 1988. It is the leading students organization of the Tai Ahom people in the state.[2] The Ahom people were the previous ruling community of the state of Assam in Northeastern part of India. Amrit Kumar Chetia, Promod Boruah, Daya Krishna Gogoi, Arun Gogoi, Puspadhar Saikia, Tutumoni Gogoi and Dimbeswar Gogoi, and Bhuban Gohain were the Chief Adviser, President, Working President, General Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Organizing Secretaries and Executive Member of the Founder Committee respectively. Dimbeswar Gogoi, was brutally murdered by ULFA on 3 November 1989.[3]

Movement

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The ATASU is spearheading the demand of the Ahom people for being granted the Scheduled Tribe status to the Tai Ahom people.[4][5]

The ATASU has been using various forums and forms of protest and agitations such as road blockades, bandhs, strikes, etc. to demand the ST status for the Ahom people in the state.[6]

Organizational structure

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ATASU recently has the following district committees :

  1. Tinisukia District Committee
  2. Dibrugarh District Committee
  3. Dhemaji District Committee
  4. North Lakhimpur District Committee
  5. Sivasagar District Committee
  6. Charaideo District Committee
  7. Jorhat District Committee
  8. Golaghat District Committee
  9. Kamrup District Committee
  10. Karbi Anglong District Committee
  11. Nagaon District Committee
  12. Morigaon District Committee
  13. Pasighat District Committee (Arunachal Pradesh)

Karbi Anglong Tai Ahom Students' Union hosted Brihattar Bokajan Rongali Bihu Adoroni (Greater Bokajan Rongali Bihu Celebration) in the middle of April from the year 2010 as a grand festival of Bokajan sub-division of the district. They also host Assam Divas (Sukapha Divas) every year at 2 December. Among the notable members of Karbi Anglong District Tai Ahom Students' Union, Pradyut Pawan Gogoi founded Greater Guwahati Tai Ahom Freshmen Social at Cotton College and the official website of All Tai Ahom Students' Union as the Education Secretary of the organization. He was the first Education Secretary of this ethnic group's organization.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ All Tai Ahom Students' Union (ATASU) on Saturday urged the state government to give the Ahom community tribal status and also demanded the inclusion of Assam's history and geography in the school syllabus up to class X and make them compulsory for students., Times of India
  2. ^ Tai Ahom students back CM Archived 30 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, The Telegraph
  3. ^ "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Northeast | Ulfa told to explain killing". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 9 January 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  4. ^ Tai Ahom students stage dharna, Assam Tribune
  5. ^ ATASU protests over ST status, The Telegraph
  6. ^ Tai students' agitation against ST status denial, The Times of India

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