BJP slams Rahul Gandhi's 'recruitment meet at varsity campus i

Meghalaya BJP today slammed AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s “recruitment” meeting at an academic campus in Shillong and said he was misusing his power.     “The BJP is shocked over Rahul Gandhi’s visit to North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) campus which today turned into a Congress Party office with party flags all around the university campus. The Congress party is misusing its power and AICC general secretary is politicizing the academic campuses throughout the country,” BJP general secretary Dipayan Chakraborty said.      He said that NEHU was not  a place for political meetings.  “It is exclusively for education and Rahul Gandhi surely is not a visiting professor to take a class for students of NEHU”.     “Why should university authorities be providing him a forum to indulge in such recruitment drive for the Congress student wing? It is for the university authority now to explain how they have allowed such political function to be organized in the University premise?” he asked.      Rahul Gandhi’s interaction here with students here sparked a controversy after the media was kept out of the programme, prompting them to boycott it.       NEHU vice chancellor’s office said he didn't know about the interaction which was held at the convention hall of the university.     “We don’t know what the meeting is all about. The Congress would know it better,” the VC’s office said.     Coordinator for Gandhi’s visit D Geetha Krishnan told reporters  that the “meeting had nothing to do with the Congress. It is a casual interaction with the students.”       However, after the interaction, NSUI activists were seen distributing membership forms among the students.      During the interaction, Rahul Gandhi encouraged the students to join the Congress, students who attended said later. He also took questions on various subjects ranging from corruption, terrorism, politics and the Northeast.