Chandan:
No I have not asked you the
questions yet. Many questions arise out of your above statement;
Following are some.
1) What exactly the slogan :
Assam IS for Assamese mean? What is the
definition of an Assamese.
Mr Dhiren Bezbarooah told me this
time that they had been asked at one time to leave Assam as some people donot
consider them to be Assamese. Where do you think this Assam for
Assamese will end?
2) Does Assam for Assamese mean
that only Assamese language will be considered as the national language of
Assam? What about other languages?
3) You mentioned about being
assimilated into Assamese to be an Assamese. With what yardstick, you
measure the process of 'assimilation"? Ability to speak Assamese and dance
Bihu Dance? Does it mean those who have not assimilated into Assamese by your
standard will not get equal right in Assam? Will they have voting right? Will
they be taxed more than an Assamese?
4) Will the children of Assamese
parents living outside Assam be considered as Assamese although they donot
know how to speak Assamese and dance Bihu dance (that is if that is the
yardstick)?
5) Some ethnic groups like the Bodos have not assimilated into the
Assamese, and never intend to and most of them actually claim not to be
considered as Assamese at all but to be considered as Bodos and are claiming
for separate Bodoland. Where they will fit in your scheme for Assam for
Assamese? What about the Dimasas, Mising and others? What if they donot want
to be considered as Assamese? Do they have any freedom in choice, or is ir a
leave it or take it policy by force?
6) You have not shown the
Bengalis in Assam who have been living in Assam for ages and who love Assam
but who want to remain as Bengalis, maintaining their separate
culture, where they will fit? Can they claim Assam as their homeland? Will
they be second-class citizens in Assam?
7) Same thing goes for Nepalis,
Marwaris, Biharis, Bangladeshi and others who have been living in Assam for
aghes, have landed property in Assam but donot want to assimilate and claim as
Assamese, what will be their fate? Why you want them to assimilate into
Assamese? Again what is the crieria of assimilation? Speaking Assamese and
dancing Bihu dance?
8) Don't you think your policy will take away the basic
freedom of an Indian to live anywhere freely in any state in India? Today an
Assamese can live in Gujarat, buy property, and remain as Assamese. Don't you
think your policy will take away this basic freedom?
9) Don't you think your
above policy will farther divide the people of Assam? Is this not the
reason why we lost the Khasis, the Nagas, the Lusais, the Garos and others
because of Assamese hegemony among them.
10) Do you find such policy in
any country? Texas for Texans only etc? Thus is it not against basic
individual freedom of people?
Anyhow this is flatly not my
Assam. Later I will tell you what policy will be in force in my Assam.
RB
