All Tai Ahom Students Union

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]

All Tai Ahom Students' Union

Chom Hom Lik Hen Tai Ahom Tang Mung
Abbreviation	ATASU
Formation	14–15 July 1988
Founder	Amrit 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 at	DholeBagan High Secondary, Dholebagan Sivasagar, Assam (IN)
Type	Ethnic
Legal status	Active
Purpose	Spearheading the demand of the Tai-Ahom people for being granted the Scheduled Tribe status to the Tai-Ahom people.
Headquarters	Guwahati, 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
Website	https://sites.google.com/site/alltaiahomstudentsunion

History

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

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

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

• Tai Ahom people
• Ahom language
• Ahom Kingdom
• All Assam Students Union