Please do.:-) Uttam Kumar Borthakur
----- Original Message ---- From: bg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world <assam@assamnet.org> Sent: Wednesday, 6 August, 2008 9:05:22 AM Subject: Re: [Assam] What all these people were doing? Dada, Would you please allow this mesg to be added into www.AssamTimes.org ?? Regards, Babul Gogoi On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:58 AM, uttam borthakur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Dear all, > The AGP (P), AGP, AASU, AJYCP all had their chance within and in proximity > of the governments ruling the state. The BJP in fact ruled the country. What > were they doing during their stints as regards detection and deportation of > foreign nationals? At this moment, these people are trying to whip up a > frenzy similar to the now forgotten times of Assam Movement thirty years > ago. That, the polls are in the offing and these people are getting busy are > no coincidence at all. To find or to seek patriotism in polticians would be > an exercise in self-deception, (as a friend has reminded me in the context > of American aggression in Iraq vis a vis carving up that country between oil > companies like Exxon, Mobil, Chevron and BP) . Safeguarding the country and > the people were never paramount in their list of priorities and the way > Manmohanomics has reduced even the parliament to a free-market would drive > home this point. On the other end of the spectrum, the > Congress, the AUDF, the AAMSU etc. are spewing fire against discrimination > and trying to pose as the saviours of the 'minority' ( a misnomer) > interests. Yesterday, Mr. Badaruddin was up in arms in the TV against any > action to goad human beings like animals and chicken for the purpose of > deportation. In fact, the AGP (P), AGP, AASU, AJYCP with their jingoist > attitude and rhetorics are creating grounds for these people to spew venom. > There is a pathetic effort on the part of AASU, AGP et al to try ad-hoc and > make believe platforms like Goria Moria organisation to show representation > from the 'minority' quarters. > The people of Assam would do well to try build up separate fora from > the lowest level taking into confidence all people of various ethnic, > religious, linguistic groups and ensuring their representation and > participation in such fora in search for a solution, if any, for this > problem of gargantuan proportions and not be distracted by jingoism and > progroms sought to be enacted by the self-seekers once again to sunder the > social fabric of Assam for their petty personal political gains. The people > of Assam should shun the battle cries of these political ( some of them > pathetically tries to prove that they are not political and they have some > gullible followers too) and take a path that would bring real succour to > this unfortunate state/people. > > > Uttam Kumar Borthakur > > > Get an email ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Click here http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > assam@assamnet.org > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > -- Babul Gogoi i-50, Lajpat Nagar 1, New Delhi 110024 Tel: 011-29817150 / 9868182079 _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Go to http://in.webmessenger.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org