[asom] PSO culture: Tarun Gogoi must answerd

[kamal deka]

I am at one with the view expressed by the following editorial of The Sentinel 
in regard to the security cover of the politicians/bigwigs, categorised as VIPs.

Why do these VIPs including those who have demitted office need more security 
than the common man who is increasingly exposed to criminality and 
law-and-order problems.Many of these protected persons don't face the kind of 
threat that warrant security cover they are given.Sometimes,the personal 
security cover smacks of a show of power.

I was surprised to see a policeman who was forced to carry bag of groceries of 
the VIP  mem sahib  as a part of his duty to protect ' Who is Who'.

BTW, these so-called VIPs should not have special lounge for them at the 
airports.They should stand in a queue just like others and go through normal 
security drills.What's your take,folks.

KJ Deka


PSO culture: Tarun Gogoi must answerd to the

: By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Feb 9: When bomb blasts in the State are a routine feature and people 
have no security whatsoever as to whether they would even return home safe, the 
State Government has deployed about 1,000 personal security officers (PSOs) to 
protect a whole lot of so-called VIPs in Guwahati (apart from ministers) for 
whom there is absolutely no threat perception but who seem to require such 
security just because they want to show that they have a higher social status. 
All this is happening at the cost of the State exchequer, while ordinary 
citizens are to fend for themselves in an utterly insecure environment. If this 
is not the defeat of democracy, what else is?   

Perhaps this realization has dawned upon the State DGP. He has now requested 
the State Home Department to review the allocation of PSOs/ house guards to the 
VIPs, retired IAS and IPS officers, businessmen, politicians, some so-called 
media barons and SULFA men. Dearth of an adequate number of police personnel 
for counter-insurgency operations has badly affected the fight against 
militancy and terrorism in the State.

A large number of policemen who are supposed to be engaged for the security of 
the common people are used as PSOs. In Guwahati alone, apart from the PSOs 
provided to the ministers, about 1,000 police personnel are used as PSOs of 
VIPs, retired IPS/IAS officers, businessmen and some so-called media barons. 
There are many in the State for whom PSOs are a mere status symbol. There are 
many retired IAS and IPS officers who continue to get PSOs/house guards even 
seven or eight years after their superannuation though they do not face any 
security threat. Why? Is it not a drain on the State exchequer? Same is the 
case with others in question who simply cannot stay without PSOs even though 
they do not face any security threat. Why? Is it not at the cost of the 
security of ordinary citizens?

Every district of the State has a committee headed by the SP to look after the 
security threat of the applicants for PSOs. PSOs are provided to the applicant 
based on the report of the panels headed by the SP. 

The PSO syndrome has affected the State police force both in terms of strength 
and psychology, since a large number of policemen are used as PSOs and cannot 
adjust themselves with other police duties that require more agility and 
presence of mind. Most of these PSOs gradually forget whatever they have learnt 
during the course of their training. 

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who also holds the State Home portfolio, must 
explain to the people as to why his administration has set such a perverse and 
undemocratic precedent of PSO culture in a State where terrorism visits every 
other day and where the people are left unprotected despite the many threats.

[asom] Re: The Violence in Guwahati

[kamal deka]

Laskar miya is trying to spew bile at the Assamese community by reeling out 
some unproven statistics and facts.The statement made by the Human Rights Group 
seems to portray the Adivasis to be noble martyrs, slain at the altar of 
Assamese residents of Beltola. They ( Adivasis ) are not unblemished saints.Why 
was the news of a man who was hacked to death by the Adivasis for defying their 
bandh call,not highlighted by BHRPC ?

The dehumanization of a Adivasi girl is surely a despicable act,who must have 
been Innocent with no connection to the violence,perpetrated by Adivasi 
protesters on the local Beltola inhabitants.But that is the ugly nature of a 
riot --- no sanity but all fury.Whether the impetus is race,religion or 
poverty,riots essentially stem from extreme frustration.

It wound not have happened if someone had stuffed all those self-serving 
politicians in a giant box and drowned it at the sea.

KJD

On 11/27/07, Shantikam Hazarika [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote: Waliullaha:
It is fantastic, the way your imagination is brewing,
THREE DAYS AFTER THE EVENT.
Keep cooking,
Insha Alla, wisdom will one day dawn upon you.

Shantikam Hazarika

- Original Message -
From: Waliulllah Ahmed Laskar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:  assamonline@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:37 PM
Subject: [asom] Statement of BHRPC regarding The Violence in Guwahati

Humanity Was Raped in Guwahati on 24th November, 2007

More than 20 people were killed, 3 women raped, one girl stripped off
in the highway and paraded, about 300 thousand injured of whom the
condition of 10 is critical and 45 persons simply disappeared when the
demonstrators belonging to Adibasi, as some tribal communities--mainly
Kul, Santal, Munda--who work in tea gardens are known here, were
marching towards the state secretariat in Dispur, Guwahati on the
fateful day of 24th November as a part of their programme formulated
to push for the age-long demand of including the communities in the
list of scheduled castes.In the course of the march while police
stopped them before they reached the Last Gate of the MLA Hostel some
of the demonstrators turned violent and destroyed properties such as
shops, vehicles etc. and injured some pedestrians. Some local
residents came out to retaliate the violence, to take revenge and to
teach the tribals a lesson. In the process they got wild and savage so
much so that they lost every sense of humanity and unleashed the brute
within them. The beast killed many innocent persons, kicked the dead
bodies with diabolic enjoyment, stripped many women off all cloths,
raped them and it raped the humanity. We saw in Guwahati the wild
dance of the beast.

Circumstances cry to yet another most diabolic fact that during the
period of 4 to 5 hours of this wild dance of the beast in the
political and administrative power center of the state no worth
mention state presence was there. The beast danced with the tacit
leave of the state. The state allowed the beast to finish its
horrendous ritual by making it self absent. It is nothing but the
naked parade of electoral politics in its worst.

The officials of the organisation which co-ordinated the programme
told that they did not have any intention to create a violent
situation. They regretted the fact of committing violence by some of
their members.

The facts which indicate clearly towards direct and indirect abetment
of the government are:
1. When the tribal groups sought permission for a meeting and a
demonstration they were denied.
2. When they held the meeting and demonstration there was no adequate
arrangement of security forces.
3. After the mayhem started no forces sent to control the situation.
4. Government is trying desperately to show down the incident reducing
the number of casualties in its statement,perhaps in order to save
the perpetrators from the law.
5. The authorities of the medical college hospital where most of the
injured were admitted released many of them without proper treatment
to show down the enormity of the mayhem, perhaps in order to save the
perpetrators from the law.
6. At first just an inquiry by an additional chief secretary was
ordered and later a judicial inquiry overlooking callously the demands
of CBI probe.
7. More cases registered against the demonstrators that against the
local residents.
8. No case was registered regarding rape cases.

There some other more painful facts indicative of the callousness of
the so-called civil society which include the attitude of the media in
covering the incident. Most of the local media presented the story in
such a way as if they are justifying, or at least making an excuse of,
the brutality meted out to the demonstrators by making tacit statement
of who-started-it-first. There are also allegations that doctors
raped a victim girl who was brought in Guwahati Medical College. These
speak a volume of the attitude of Assamese people towards the tribals
which also can explain the barbarity committed 

[asom] Jelly belly

[kamal deka]

A big belly is a death-knell or you can also call it a killer belly.If you are 
an Indian male and your waist-line measures over 35 inches,you are almost 
certain to get diabetes or heart disease within next 15 to 20 years.
 
Although,heart disease declined 60% in  the US,it has escalated 300% in 
India.Indian men, no matter where they live,have one of the highest rate of 
heart disease in the world.While 60% attacks amongst Americans occur after the 
age 55,over half of all heart attacks among Indian men strike under the age of 
55 and 25% under the age of 40.
 
Indians have a genetic predisposition and hence we have a national or country 
history of heart disease.The key to losing the jelly belly is combination of 
physical exercise and nutrition.
 
So,kharkhowa raiz ,please pick up a measuring tape and wrap it up around your 
waist at navel level.
 
KJ Deka