Re: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India
, the UK, Japan, Malaysia and many Arab countries as a Minister and afterwards as the President of India widened his urbane outlook that endeared him to all sections of the people, irrespective of caste, creed and avocation. Elegantly dressed he was always courteous but firm in what he considered to be just and fair and presented himself as a Moghul, as it were, which quality he perhaps inherited from his maternal side. At forty Ali Ahmed married Abida (21) of a respectable family of U.P. educated in Aligarh Muslim University. When negotiations for the wedding were under way Ahmed was undergoing a jail term in Jorhat as security prisoner. At a certain stage of the negotiations Abida's family wanted to know what the prospective bride groom was doing. The answer came from one of the relatives of the would-be bridegroom: Fil hal to jail men Hai (At present he is in jail). But Destiny so ordained that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and Abida were happily married on 9 November, 1945. Begum Abida Saheba was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1981 from a U.P. constituency in a by-election. Ali Ahmed passed away on 11 February, 1977 in the Rashtrapati Bhavan leaving behind wife, two sons and a daughter. Barua25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear BB Thanks for your valuable personal information which goes to establish FA AHmed beyond doubt as an honourable Assamese of whom we can be proud of.\\ RB - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Assam@assamnet.org Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India As to whether F. A. Ahmed could be called Assamese remains an open question I knew Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed personally for many years. He was an unusual man. He completely identified himself as an Assamese. His mother tongue was Urdu and he had relatives in Old Delhi. He was a Barrister and he belonged to a very well-to-do family. He could have easily chosen a life of comfort, honour and riches either as a lawyer or a politician in a city of India or abroad, anywhere outside backward Assam but he did not do so; he joined the Congress Party, fought for the freedom of the country and remained steadfastly faithful to his party and its ideals. He was a man of principles. Once, after my graduation, I approached him for a certificate to apply for the job of a junior executive in an English firm. He was a Rajya Sabha MP at the time. He expressed great annoyance at my request; he said: I do not like young people like you applying for jobs in foreign firms. He of course gave me a certificate. He felt natural sympathy for the underprivileged of the society. I speak it from my personal knowledge. In very serious situations involving communal disputes between Hindus and Muslims, between Assamese and Bengalis etc his decisions were above board, wise and fair. I believe if there was a man eminently deserving to be the President of India, he was late Mr F A Ahmed. And I can assure you he was an Assamese. Bhuban ___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org How much mail storage do you get for free? Yahoo! Mail gives you 1GB! Get Yahoo! Mail___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India
Direct this Question to Delhi. I am available as a paperweight in Delhi--after Assam is free and Svereign. mm From:Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:"Roy, Santanu" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],assam@assamnet.orgSubject:Re: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of IndiaDate:Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:35:10 -0600Umesh's question belies an unexpressed faith on tokenism as a substitutefor substance.At 10:04 PM -0600 11/10/05, Roy, Santanu wrote: Not that it made much of a positive difference to Assam, but just to state a fact, a former President of India (F.A. Ahmed) was indeed an MP from Assam played a much greater (and longer) role in the politics of the state than one of its later MPs - the current Prime Minister of India. In fact, Ahmed was a minister in the first Bordoloi ministry in Assam in 1938. As to whether F. A. Ahmed could be called Assamese remains an open question... Santanu. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of umesh sharma Sent: Fri 11/11/2005 11:06 AM To: assam@assamnet.org Subject: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India http://specials.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/09sld01.htm The first Dalit President of India - memorium photo-article- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India
As to whether F. A. Ahmed could be called Assamese remains an open question I knew Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed personally for many years. He was an unusual man. He completely identified himself as an Assamese. His mother tongue was Urdu and he had relatives in Old Delhi. He was a Barrister and he belonged to a very well-to-do family. He could have easily chosen a life of comfort, honour and riches either as a lawyer or a politician in a city of India or abroad, anywhere outside backward Assam but he did not do so; he joined the Congress Party, fought for the freedom of the country and remained steadfastly faithful to his party and its ideals. He was a man of principles. Once, after my graduation, I approached him for a certificate to apply for the job of a junior executive in an English firm. He was a Rajya Sabha MP at the time. He expressed great annoyance at my request; he said: I do not like young people like you applying for jobs in foreign firms. He of course gave me a certificate. He felt natural sympathy for the underprivileged of the society. I speak it from my personal knowledge. In very serious situations involving communal disputes between Hindus and Muslims, between Assamese and Bengalis etc his decisions were above board, wise and fair. I believe if there was a man eminently deserving to be the President of India, he was late Mr F A Ahmed. And I can assure you he was an Assamese. Bhuban ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India
Dear BB Thanks for your valuable personal information which goes to establish FA AHmed beyond doubt as an honourable Assamese of whom we can be proud of.\\ RB - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Assam@assamnet.org Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India As to whether F. A. Ahmed could be called Assamese remains an open question I knew Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed personally for many years. He was an unusual man. He completely identified himself as an Assamese. His mother tongue was Urdu and he had relatives in Old Delhi. He was a Barrister and he belonged to a very well-to-do family. He could have easily chosen a life of comfort, honour and riches either as a lawyer or a politician in a city of India or abroad, anywhere outside backward Assam but he did not do so; he joined the Congress Party, fought for the freedom of the country and remained steadfastly faithful to his party and its ideals. He was a man of principles. Once, after my graduation, I approached him for a certificate to apply for the job of a junior executive in an English firm. He was a Rajya Sabha MP at the time. He expressed great annoyance at my request; he said: I do not like young people like you applying for jobs in foreign firms. He of course gave me a certificate. He felt natural sympathy for the underprivileged of the society. I speak it from my personal knowledge. In very serious situations involving communal disputes between Hindus and Muslims, between Assamese and Bengalis etc his decisions were above board, wise and fair. I believe if there was a man eminently deserving to be the President of India, he was late Mr F A Ahmed. And I can assure you he was an Assamese. Bhuban ___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India
, as it were, which quality he perhaps inherited from his maternal side. At forty Ali Ahmed married Abida (21) of a respectable family of U.P. educated in Aligarh Muslim University. When negotiations for the wedding were under way Ahmed was undergoing a jail term in Jorhat as security prisoner. At a certain stage of the negotiations Abida's family wanted to know what the prospective bride groom was doing. The answer came from one of the relatives of the would-be bridegroom: Fil hal to jail men Hai (At present he is in jail). But Destiny so ordained that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and Abida were happily married on 9 November, 1945. Begum Abida Saheba was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1981 from a U.P. constituency in a by-election. Ali Ahmed passed away on 11 February, 1977 in the Rashtrapati Bhavan leaving behind wife, two sons and a daughter. Barua25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear BB Thanks for your valuable personal information which goes to establish FA AHmed beyond doubt as an honourable Assamese of whom we can be proud of.\\ RB - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Assam@assamnet.org Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India As to whether F. A. Ahmed could be called Assamese remains an open question I knew Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed personally for many years. He was an unusual man. He completely identified himself as an Assamese. His mother tongue was Urdu and he had relatives in Old Delhi. He was a Barrister and he belonged to a very well-to-do family. He could have easily chosen a life of comfort, honour and riches either as a lawyer or a politician in a city of India or abroad, anywhere outside backward Assam but he did not do so; he joined the Congress Party, fought for the freedom of the country and remained steadfastly faithful to his party and its ideals. He was a man of principles. Once, after my graduation, I approached him for a certificate to apply for the job of a junior executive in an English firm. He was a Rajya Sabha MP at the time. He expressed great annoyance at my request; he said: I do not like young people like you applying for jobs in foreign firms. He of course gave me a certificate. He felt natural sympathy for the underprivileged of the society. I speak it from my personal knowledge. In very serious situations involving communal disputes between Hindus and Muslims, between Assamese and Bengalis etc his decisions were above board, wise and fair. I believe if there was a man eminently deserving to be the President of India, he was late Mr F A Ahmed. And I can assure you he was an Assamese. Bhuban ___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org___assam mailing listassam@assamnet.orghttp://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Why not an Assamese President of India
http://specials.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/09sld01.htm The first Dalit President of India - memorium photo-article How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
