>Since there is none, one must wonder why VOTE-banking is as Indian as desi->demokrasy.
And in the 'Merican democracy its the race card or the 'bleeding-heart liberal' vote bank. Vote banks are as old as politics.
--Ram
On 2/21/06, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Ganesh:
I realize that the Congresswallas are renowned vote-bankers. But can
you point to a political party in Assam or anywhere in India who is
NOT?
Since there is none, one must wonder why VOTE-banking is as Indian as
desi-demokrasy. The thinking person ought to be asking WHY it is so?
Have you ever thought of that? And if you did, why do you think it is
so? And HOW could that be changed?
I am also curious about:
>'Kuli' is gone,
*** They are? Where have they vanished to?
>'Bengali'became smarter,
*** And how so? Was it hard 'studying' like they are famous for, or
did they discover something that they had no access to earlier?
>so Congress have to hold on to "Ali"my ANY MEANS!
*** I see. But I am certain YOU Ganesh, is far more able than this
makes you out to be. So why don't you take a few moments sometime and
reflect SERIOUSLY on WHY things are the way are that bother you so,
but are unable to find any answers to, other than these rather
childish conclusions.
And if you do , please be sure to share it with the rest of us. On
the other hand if you remain discombobulated enough by your religious
hang-ups, do tell. I am sure someone here will be able to help you
understand things a bit better. In fact I would give it a try myself,
when I get a breather :-).
c-da
At 6:00 AM -0800 2/21/06, Ganesh C Bora wrote:
>Ram da,
>Do you remember, during the anti-foreigner agitation
>time, how the communist along with congress played
>their role? Later communist were in bed with AGP in
>AGP's second stint in power.
>
>"Ali-Kuli-Bengali"!!!! 'Kuli' is gone, 'Bengali'
>became smarter, so Congress have to hold on to "Ali"
>my ANY MEANS!
>
>Ganesh
>
>--- Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Seems interesting. Anyone heard of 'The Organizer'?
>> Of the bat seems to be a
>> Hindu Right Wing rag. But there are some other
>> pieces like this one
>>
>>
> http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=119&page=7
>>
>> where it talks about communalizing the armed forces
>> where "all the three
>> wings of Army were asked by the Government to
>> provide data on how many
>> Muslims were there in their ranks, which positions
>> they hold and even their
>> role in some key operations. "
>> **
>> and then this one on Assam
>> **
>> *
>>
>http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=119&page=19
>> *
>> **
>> *UPA dividing Assam on communal lines*
>> *By Pranjit Agarwala*
>> In 1979, the All Assam Student Union (AASU) started
>> the anti-foreigners
>> movement to detect, delete and deport illegal
>> migrants of Bangladesh from
>> Assam. All political parties except the erstwhile
>> Jan Sangh now the
>> Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), termed the movement as
>> anti-social and
>> anti-national with parochial and communal overtones.
>>
>> Besides the BJP on the national level, the Rashtriya
>> Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
>> also realised the real gravity of the issue and
>> mobilised its cadres to make
>> the Indian public aware of the true nature of the
>> AASU's anti-foreigners
>> movement and the dangers the illegal infiltration
>> from Bangladesh posed for
>> national security.
>>
>> However, opinions differed on the status of the
>> illegal migrants from
>> Bangladesh.
>>
>> Muslims faced no persecution and their infiltration
>> in such large numbers
>> particularly to Assam was deemed to be a part of a
>> sinister plan to change
>> the demographic pattern of Assam thus making it a
>> Muslim-majority state,
>> which could be dangerous for the unity and security
>> of the country.
>>
>> These fears are not entirely unfounded if the
>> present situation of Jammu and
>> Kashmir is considered. Cross-border infiltration in
>> this Muslim-majority
>> state has incited separatist sentiments and terror
>> tactics have been used on
>> the Kashmiri Pandits who have been forced to abandon
> > their age-old homeland
> > and migrate to other parts of the country. The once
>> prosperous community is
>> today living in refugee camps in Jammu and Delhi in
>> deplorable conditions
>> running from pillar to post seeking justice. But the
>> Government of India or
>> the society in general has shown only helplessness
>> in providing them justice
>> or in alleviating their plight.
>>
>> Backdoor enactment of the IMDT Act and its
>> significance
>>
>> The plan to change the population pattern of Assam
>> along religious lines
>> dates back to pre-Independence days. With the aim of
>> making Assam a part of
>> Pakistan during the Partition of India a mass
>> migration of Muslims mainly
>> from the Sylhet and Mymensingh districts of
>> erstwhile East Bengal took place
>> mainly to the Central Assam districts. However, due
>> to the tough stand taken
>> by Gopinath Bordoloi, Assam remained with India at
>> the time of Partition.
>> However, the plan was not abandoned and after
>> Independence an unabated
>> influx continued with the support of certain
>> political parties who used
>> these illegal migrants as vote-banks. These early
>> illegal migrants from
>> East-Pakistan identified themselves as Assamese at
>> the time of the census
>> and continued to increase their population in the
>> decades that followed.
>>
>> The indigenous people of Assam did not understand
>> the political motive
>> behind such large-scale trans-migration of
>> population nor the implications
>> of their multiplying numbers once settled there. By
>> the time a conscious
>> section of the Assamese became aware of the changing
>> demographic pattern and
>> its inherent dangers, it was rather late. As by then
>> six districts of Assam
>> had a Muslim majority and in 10 districts they had a
>> significant presence.
>>
>> While Assam's population increased by 52.44 per cent
>> from 1971 to 1994 the
>> number of voters increased by 95 per cent during the
>> same period. In actual
>> numbers the increase was from 62,96,000 voters in
>> 1972 to 1,23,00,000 voters
>> in 1994. An abnormal increase of 60 lakh voters.
>> Translated into electoral
>> politics out of 126 Assembly and 14 Parliamentary
>> seats they were the
>> deciding factor in 68 Assembly and eight
>> Parliamentary seats, respectively.
>> This large body of foreigners on the electoral rolls
>> of Assam poses a real
>> threat to the genuine citizens as they now have the
>> strength to decide the
>> fate of governments in Assam.
>>
>> With Islamic terrorism spreading its tentacles
>> globally the dangers of such
>> a huge illegal influx cannot be under-estimated or
>> ignored. In 1979,
>> realising the dangers of this illegal infiltration
>> and the changing
>> population pattern, AASU launched the
>> anti-foreigners movement to detect and
>> deport illegal migrants of Bangladesh and to delete
>> their names from the
>> electoral rolls of Assam. The six-year-long
>> anti-foreigners movement was
>> unique in the sense that it was able to mobilise the
>> active support of all
>> genuine Indian citizens residing in Assam and the
>> north-east irrespective of
>> their language, religion or community.
>>
>> However, vested political interests with an eye on
>> the Muslim vote-bank gave
>> the movement a religious tone and termed it as
>> anti-Muslim and not
>> anti-foreigners. To protect its minority vote-bank
>> the Congress which was
>> then in power both at the Centre and in the state
>> promulgated the Illegal
>> Migrants Determination by Tribunals Act (IMDT) in
>> 1983 to be effective
>> mainly in Assam. The IMDT Act, instead of helping in
>> detecting and deporting
>> illegal migrants, made it more difficult because as
>> per the Act the onus of
>> proving a person a foreigner rested on the
>> complainant and not on the
>> accused. The Act further required that the
>> complainant must reside within a
>> specific radius of the accused and his complaint
>> must be supported by at
>> least two witnesses. In contrast, in the rest of the
>> country illegal
>> migrants come under the Foreigners Act where the
>> burden of proof rested with
>> the accused or the foreigner. Hence the IMDT Act
>> became more of a deterrent
> > in detecting foreigners as the process subjected the
> > complainant to a lot of
>> harassment.
>>
>> The IMDT Act, instead of helping in detecting and
>> deporting illegal
>> migrants, made it more difficult because as per the
>> Act the onus of proving
>> a person a foreigner rested on the complainant and
>> not on the accused. The
>> Act further required that the complainant must
>> reside within a specific
>> radius of the accused and his complaint must be
>> supported by at least two
>> witnesses.
>>
>> How effective the IMDT Act has been in fulfilling
>> its stated purpose will be
>> evident from the government record which states that
>> since the Act came into
>> force in December 1983 and up to January 1999, a
>> period of 15 years, only
>> 9,599 illegal migrants were detected and not a
>> single one was deported. As
>> against this, the flow of illegal migrants from
>> Bangladesh has not only
>>
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