>How for example, can a handful of
legislators from Assam, who get there thru a profoundly faulty, undemocratic and
outside special interest controlled electoral process, >safeguard Assam's
interest playing the numbers game in a house of 400 (?); in a system where the
checks and balances of a lower and upper house is merely a rubber->stamping
mechanism lacking any teeth, and where the checks and balances of constitutional
division of powers are non-functional, leading for example a state to refuse
>to obey the directive of the SC on a matter such as riverlinking, and that
too with impunity?
How Assam was represented by a handfull of Ahom Buragohains and a
Xorgodew in a most undemocratic manner for 600 years.?
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>What Dr Manmohan Singh is
suggesting is a constitutional process. ULFA's demand, and for that matter
that of any >insurgency group, is not based on
India's Constitution.
**** The constitution is skewed against Assam's legitimate RIGHTS and
interests. Therefore the whole premise is a meaningless one, as far as Assam's
grievances are concerned.
How for example, can a handful of legislators from Assam, who get there
thru a profoundly faulty, undemocratic and outside special interest controlled
electoral process, safeguard Assam's interest playing the numbers game in a
house of 400 (?); in a system where the checks and balances of a lower and
upper house is merely a rubber-stamping mechanism lacking any teeth, and where
the checks and balances of constitutional division of powers are
non-functional, leading for example a state to refuse to obey the directive of
the SC on a matter such as riverlinking, and that too with impunity?
Kharkhowas living in the west, in their developed and functional
democracies, spouting praise of democratic system do so, without being
aware of or deliberately ignoring the realities of desi-demokrasy.
I don't make the charge lightly. One needs only to look at the arguments
that we make in Assam net, or in the many India related websites, that display
the degree of ignorance of democratic principles, even among the desi
elites.
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What
Dr Manmohan Singh is suggesting is a constitutional process. ULFA's demand,
and for that matter that of any insurgency group, is not based on
India's Constitution. It is not democratic either; in fact it need not
be democratic. Dr Singh has sworn in to promote, protect and preserve all
that is there in the Constitution of India. The architects of the
Indian Constitution were aware of the fact that India is a weak union made
up of diverse elements -differences in religion, ethnicity, language,
culture and so on - and it stressed that all efforts must be directed
towards keeping India united. In this I accuse the Government of India of
its haphazard efforts or no efforts at all in keeping India united. I also
believe that a great disservice was done by the Sixth schedule with which Dr
Ambedkar's name is associated. The sixth schedule was meant for a trial
period of ten years but the Indian politicians do not have the guts to scrap
it.In fact more and more people want to benefit from it. Even Dr Ambedkar
was not happy at last. The caste system is so deeply rooted in Indian
culture that he advised the dalits to convert to Buddhism. But I personally
know that even after becoming converts they continued to benefit from the
Sixth Schedule like all other backward people of India, i e the scheduled
caste and scheduled tribes.
bhuban
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