You did not explain anything at all here Rajen.
I wished you had.
c
At 9:33 AM -0500 8/22/05, Rajen Barua wrote:
>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.?
How Assam was ruled in a most undemocratic manner for 150 years by the British Raj who destroyed the Assamese entreprenership starting with Maniram Dewan and opened and exploited Assam for the outsiders?
That is what we had then, and this is what we have now.
The question is whether we look at the glass as half full and try to improve, or we look at it half empty and try to destory.
That is my brother is the difference.
Try to be a Friend of Assam.
Don't try to be a power hungry patriot.
Rajen
----- Original Message -----From: Chan MahantaTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected]Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:00 AMSubject: Re: Fwd: [Assam] Word to ULFA into action now, PM. Confer ballot onAssam Soverei...>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.At 6:33 AM -0400 8/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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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