Manas Deka, who was indicted by the JNU students leader Kanhaiya Kumar of trying to "throttle" him on board an aircraft in April, today led a assignment of Assamese youths which greet BJP president Amit Shah at a function. The brief encounter took place before Shah was to address a convention of 'Pramod Mahajan Skill and Entrepreneurship Mission', a state government initiative on the lines of the Centre's 'Skill India', at an auditorium. However, the delegation did not attend the function and left immediately. Deka later posted the selfies with Shah on his social media account. Kumar had described Deka as a "strong BJP supporter" in his tweet after the incident.