About: - Apurba Kumar Baruah was a retired professor who has worked at North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. He works as the Head and Professor of the Department of Political Science at NEHU and was also the Dean of the School of Social Sciences there Additionally, he is the Academic Adviser of the Assam School of Journalism and the Assam Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research. He is also associated with the Institute for Development and Communication (IDC) in Chandigarh . He is the president of Sustha Samaj Bikash Chakr. Apurba supports a extreme speratist Akhil gogoi who is involved in anti CAA activities and other anti india activities. Baruah issued a statement expressing their strong support over the incarceration of Akhil Gogoi.