To whom it may concern
It is believed that the said article was published on 30 August. May I humbly suggest that with your letter you enclose a print out from the AssamNet posting on the item to help the editor retieve the page from his archive.
Best regards.
Originator: Bartta Bistar
I wish to respond to this article by writing a letter to the editor. Can you
let mem know on which date this article had appreared. I am unable to locate
it in the archives of daily pioneer.
best regards
Rajiv
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Received: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:31:02 PM SGT
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Subject: [Assam] Kingdom of Assam had 0.001% of Muslim. Islamic Agenda
succeeding, today's 30%.
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> Apropos Mr Upamanyu Hazarika's article, "Declare Emergency in Assam" (August
18), in which the writer says that the Centre can issue a proclamation under
Article 352 of the Constitution, declaring Emergency in the State and
implement the provisions of Assam Accord of August 15, 1985.
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of concern for the Assamese, but essentially a product of dirty politics of
the 1980s.
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> The Assam movement, which was launched by the All Assam Students Union and
the Assam Gana Sangram Parishad, has its roots in the past. "This movement was
the continuation of the movement for a university in Assam during the period
of freedom struggle and for an oil refinery and official language in the
post-independent period."
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concerned with the assimilation of Bengali- speaking Hindus, forcing them to
accept Assamese as their language.
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> The people of Assam lived in peaceful coexistence till the entry of the
forces of Hindutva in the State. The RSS's policy was spelt out at the
organisation's national council meeting at Nagpur, where it was resolved that
the identity of different groups in Assam could be preserved only if the State
remained predominantly Hindu.
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> The RSS demanded that "Hindu refugees settled in the State should not be
dubbed as foreigners" (Diwan Vijay Kumar, Assam Issue: The Beginning, the End
and the Beginning, p 40). Professor Hiren Gohain wrote: "If the RSS is allowed
to play its game in this way, the spread of the RSS influence will jeopardise
the survival of genuine Muslims."
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> Muslim settlement in Assam can be traced back to 1206, when the Turks were
defeated at Kamrup. In 1257, Tugil Khan again attacked Kamrup and built the
first ever mosque in North Kamrup. The credit for preaching Islam in Assam
goes to Asam Fakir who came from Baghdad in 1635.
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> The immigration of Muslims continued in several ways. Ahom Kings imported
weavers and in 1874 Lord North Brook sent Muslims to carry on the
administration.
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> The Assam Accord has some very dangerous implications for the linguistic
and religious minorities of the State, particularly Muslims. The Congress has
played a game with Muslims by arriving at this agreement.
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> If the Congress is sincere in its concern for the minorities, it must
declare that no part of India is the exclusive homeland of any ethnic,
linguistic or religious group.
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> Experience shows that the implementation of this Accord has brought with it
a chain of atrocities against poor and illiterate Muslim Bengalis. They are
being deprived of their cultural and linguistic identity. However, the RSS
openly says that Bangladeshi Hindus should not be deported.
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> A report in The Statesman (April 29, 2002) reads: "Manmohan Samal, MP and
State president of the BJP, has called for Mr LK Advani's (then Home Minister)
intervention in stopping deportation of Bangladeshi Hindus and further
demanded that settlers should be treated as refugees and not as
infiltrators."
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> The Accord has created more problems than it has solved. The only section
of the population of Assam which gives secure is the upper caste Hindus. No
one opposes deportation of foreigners.
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> But in the name of throwing out foreigners, other goals must not be made to
serve. There is still time to give fresh thought and re-write of the Accord in
the interest of Assam.
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