With the Lok Sabha election campaign gradually beginning to gain momentum, one more important leader of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) has joined a political party, with the latter declaring him as a candidate for the ensuing election. The AASU incidentally is the biggest leader-manufacturing factory of Assam – nay India – with a large number of its former leaders joining politics and becoming MLAs, MPs and ministers. While it is a fact that the student movement has remained at the heart of all socio-political actions in Assam since the nineteenth century, none other than Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbaroa was president of the first student organization of Assam more than one hundred years ago. Almost every chief minister of Assam, starting with Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi and including present chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, had been popular student leaders during their formative years. Most of the important political leaders of the country too have come through the process of grooming in different student organizations, but then the AASU probably stands apart, especially in that it created world record when a whole set of its leaders moved directly from the university hostels to the state assembly in 1985. But then, taking a close look, it appears that the quality of products of this leader-manufacturing factory has not proved to be up to the mark, with most proving to be of very short shelf-life. Majority of those who have been around for long too have proved to be ineffective in the long run because they have failed to make any lasting positive and quality contribution to the well-being of Assam. In lay language, the products coming out of the leader-manufacturing factory do not seem to pass through a quality-control mechanism. More importantly, this factory, unlike its counterpart say in Mizoram, have miserably failed to produce leaders in other fields like administration, academic, science and technology, research and development, etc. One dangerous outcome of the manufacturing defect in this leader-producing factory is that most of them indulge in forcible collection of donations. Yet another aspect is that they most of them fail to get a proper and overall understanding of the various economic, political, social, ethnic, geographical and historical aspects of Assam and the reason. Most appear to bank only on stirring and exploiting the emotions of the common people, have little or no respect for human rights, and most regrettably, do not consider honesty and accountability as two of the several qualities good leaders should possess.